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autochorissexual en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɔ.tə.kɔ.ɹəˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/ (General-American)
  • /ˌɔ.toʊ.kɔ.ɹəˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/ (General-American)
  • /ˌɔː.tə.kɔː.ɹəˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Coined by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, from auto- + χωρίς (khōrís, “without”) + -sexual, for a rough meaning of "without-self-sexual."

Meanings

  1. Experiencing sexual arousal or fantasies disconnected from oneself and/or without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.
    • For autochorissexual participants, kinks and fetishes were understood as part of an individual’s unique desires and fantasies, which were either undesirable – or impossible – to experience in real-life. 2019, Thom Winter-Gray, Nikki Hayfield, “'Can I be a kinky ace?': How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes”, in Psychology & Sexuality:
    • It is possible that some asexual individuals will also be autochorissexual in that they are not sexually attracted to anyone or anything, but may nonetheless require explicit stimuli to facilitate masturbation to orgasm. 2014 August, Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto, Boris B. Gorzalka, “Sexual fantasy and masturbation among asexual individuals”, in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, volume 23, number 2, page 93:
    • The fact that some asexuals masturbate, but separate this activity from images of themselves as sexual and from sexual fantasies, supports the notion that some asexuals might be autochorissexual (Bogaert, 2012). 2015, Parul Modi, "Do men and women with asexual identities show low category specificity in their patterns of sexual attraction and attention to male and female swimsuit models?", thesis submitted to California State University, Fullerton

Forms

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most autochorissexual Degree=Sup lexicographic
more autochorissexual Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Relateds

autochorissexualism · autochorissexuality

Synonyms

aegosexual

wikipedia: Anthony Bogaert