[Ads-l] abrosexual

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Apr 10 17:07:32 UTC 2021


Hetero- and homo- sound so twentieth-century.

JL

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:25 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Seems like the meaning is essentially “flexisexual” (as in “flexitarian”),
> without sounding quite so…bendy.
> (The orientation in question does sound somewhat "[in]decisive" but not
> obviously "too picky")
>
> LH
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:06 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Not in OED or MW.
> >
> > Quora.com: "I'm an abrosexual demiromantic and have been shunned by some
> of
> > the LGBTQ community for not being decisive or being too picky. Is my
> > sexuality valid?"
> >
> > JL
> >
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