Definition of "allosexual"
allosexual
adjective
(LGBT, of a person) Experiencing sexual attraction; not asexual.
Quotations
(LGBT, uncommon, chiefly Canada) LGB; queer; non-heterosexual.
Quotations
Diane Bourgeois (Terrebonne—Blainville, BQ): Mr. Speaker, last month in my riding, Gaétan Lord won the jury prize at the Allostars Gala for his contribution as founding president of Canada's first centre for “allosexual” or queer youth, which offers support to gays, lesbians and young people who are unsure about their sexual orientation.
2006, House of Commons Debates, numbers 27-40, page 1595
Throughout this time, I have been struck by the absence of racialized, ethnicized, and colonized (REC) voices in historical accounts of the local gay and lesbian community at large, and likewise the lack of allosexual representation in the narratives of the city's various ethnocultural communities.
2013, Alan Wong, “Listen and Learn”, in Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
(chiefly social sciences, of sexual desire or activity) Directed toward or involving another person rather than (only) oneself.
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Allosexual behavior peaked during the follicular phase for both heterosexual women and lesbians.
2002, Mary H Burleson et al., “Sexual behavior in lesbian and heterosexual women: relations with menstrual cycle phase and partner availability”, in Psychoneuroendocrinology, volume 27, number 4, pages 489–503
Allosexual behavior was positively related to libido, and negatively related to positive and "premenstrual" emotional factors. Autosexual behavior was predicted by libido and an energetic / creative emotional factor.
2011 August, Susan G. Brown, Marites J. Calibuso, Amanda L. Roedl, “Women’s Sexuality, Well-Being, and the Menstrual Cycle: Methodological issues and their interrelationships”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 40, number 4, pages 755–765
(chiefly biology, sociology, psychology) Involving or directed at the other biological sex; heterosexual; not isosexual.
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Dr. Conigliaro contended that the sharing of the same bedroom by a single parent and child of the opposite sex "could contribute to, or cause, an excessive degree of ‘allosexual identifications’, [where a child identifies with the parent of the opposite sex] […] "
1980, Federal supplement, series 1, volume 476, page 1330
[…] We performed 45 experimental confrontations with heterospecific pairs. Confrontations (C. talarum vs C. australis) included allosexual and isosexual encounters.
1992 February, Aldo I Vassallo, Christina Busch, “Interspecific agonism between two sympatric species of Ctenomys (Rodentia: Octodontidae) in captivity”, in Behaviour, volume 120, number 1/2, pages 40-50
noun
plural allosexuals
(LGBT) One who experiences sexual attraction; one who is not asexual.
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[…] that is par for the course of being any form of queer-identified. But it also allows allies and allosexuals (persons who experience sexual attraction) to push out asexual and aromantic-identified individuals.
2014 October 15, Z Colburn, “"A" is for annoyed”, in The Easterner, volume 66, number 4, page 8