allonormativity

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English

Etymology

From allo- +‎ normativity.

Noun

allonormativity (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The assumption that all human beings are allosexual or alloromantic, i.e. that they experience sexual attraction and/or romantic attraction to other people.
    • 2015, Laura, "Asexual community politics and sex aversion", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 2, January 2015, page 18:
      Because aces differ so much, the ideologies of compulsory sexuality, sex normativity, amatonormativity, and even allonormativity will tend to operate differently upon different types of aces.
    • 2019, Amanda L. Mollett, Brian Lackman, “Asexual Student Invisibility and Erasure in Higher Education: 'I Thought I Was the Only One'”, in Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Devika Dibya Choudhuri, Jason L. Taylor, editors, Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts: Identity, Policies, and Campus Climate, unnumbered page:
      The sooner campuses acknowledge asexuality as a sexual identity, the sooner they can begin examining and addressing the ways they perpetuate allonormativity.
    • 2019, Constance Bougie, “Pink Gauze, Cold Spirits: Asexual Criticism and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway”, in Oshkosh Scholar, volume 14, Oshkosh: University of Wisconsin, page 99:
      In such a context, those who identify as asexual, inundated as is common by such norms of what we might refer to as allonormativity, are left, as blogger @theacetheist notes, with only two theses with which to incorrectly regard their existences: “I am not a sexual being, therefore I am not human,” or, alternatively, “I am human, therefore I am a sexual being.”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:allonormativity.

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