Allosexuality is the ability to experience sexual attraction and the lack of identification with asexuality. Someone who experiences allosexuality is allosexual, sometimes shortened to allo. The term does not indicate the target of sexual attraction, meaning allosexual could describe someone who is heterosexual, gay, bisexual, or pansexual, for example. It also does not indicate how often an individual experiences sexual attraction or participates in sex or sexual encounters.

The term was coined by the asexual community, as a way to name and discuss the experiences of non-asexual people. It also works to normalize asexuality, by making it one sexuality among others, rather than being a deviation from what is simply 'normal'.

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Another competing term to describe non-asexual people is zedsexual.

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21st-century neologisms

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