Category:Asexual Spectrum

Contributions by: Rust&Stardust

Definitions and Usage
The asexual spectrum (also known as acespec) is the gradient between allosexuality and asexuality, or feeling sexual attraction in a "typical way" or never feeling it at all. Many terms fall across this spectrum describing who, why, and when attraction occurs.

Related Terms
Some common asexual spectrum terms are demisexual, gray-asexual, and apothisexual, but the list is extensive. Labels can be combined too as attraction can be complex. When an individual doesn't experience sexual attraction very often, but when they do, it is only felt after experiencing another form of attraction, they could be a gray-appressexual.

Flags
For many, the asexual flag is used to represent the asexual spectrum as a whole. However, a newer flag has been proposed. The dark blue top stripe is for the community aspect of the acespec experience. The history and solidarity is a foundational part of the community. Relatedly, the cream stripe represents diversity in all senses: among the spectrum itself and other kinds of attraction. Unsurprisingly, the purple band — a color associated with asexuality as a whole — is the umbrella for all labels. The rosy stripe is for the pride and acceptance in one's lack of sexual attraction.