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Old Jan 14, 2015, 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by NonBinaryHamster View Post
Asexual is a lack of sexual attraction. Ace is the shorthand term for asexual. Sexual attraction refers to sexual desire towards a particular person. Sexual desire is the want to have sex, which is not always triggered by something, and many aces experience this but I am not one of those people.
Romantic attraction is the same as being attracted to someone and feeling like you want to develop a relationship with this person, without the sexual attraction to go along with those feelings. The "pan" prefix means that I can experience romantic attraction towards people of all genders, including trans* people.
Hope this explains it well enough!
Oh, thanks. For all I knew at the time, I thought "ace" was short for AC/DC (i.e. bisexual).
Thanks for this!
NonBinaryHamster