Gender & Sexuality dictionary
quoisexual
[kwa-sek-shoo-uh l]
黑料网 does quoisexual mean?
Quoisexual is a sexual orientation on the asexuality spectrum. It can refer to a person who doesn’t relate to or understand experiences or concepts of sexual attraction and orientation. It can also refer to someone who feels confusion about their own feelings of sexual attraction and orientation.
Where does quoisexual come from?
Quoisexual听颈蝉听based on the French quoi, a word for “what,” as in the expression听je ne sais quoi.听It听is credited to the user epocryphal in 2014 on Tumblr, a social media site known for its gender and sexual diversity.
As epocryphal defined quoisexual: “sexual orientation and/or attraction does not make sense as a concept or an experience.” Epocrpyhal is also credited with coining听quoiromantic and听quoigender, in which the concepts and experience of romantic attraction and gender, respectively, don’t make sense to a person.
Quoisexual听became more nuanced in meaning, expanding to a sense of confusion over feeling sexual feelings and the struggle to identify an appropriate sexuality. Quoisexuality听falls in the asexuality or grey-A spectrums.
As with other terms in the expanding lexicon of gender and sexuality, the term听quoisexual spread from Tumblr to the broader internet, including X (formerly Twitter), in the late 2010s. It resonated with many people who couldn’t define exactly how they felt about their sexual orientation.
Quoisexual was notably featured by the MOGAI (Marginalized Orientations, Gender identities, And Intersex) Tumblr in 2015. It has been nicknamed WTFsexual, from the internet acronym WTF, or what the fuck.
Examples of quoisexual
Who uses quoisexual?
The venues of discussion for quoisexual have been in the asexuality community on Tumblr, X, and other social media forums.
The term has support in this community given especially because it is flexible and inclusive, extending to people who are questioning their experiences.
I don't identify with labels. I'm QUOISEXUAL
— Agathe-la-bonne-f茅e-猸� (@_entropea)
Quoi– has become a prefix signifying “not making sense of” or “not relating to” gender or sexual identity, as we saw in听quoiromantic and quoigender. Quoisexual is also sometimes shortened to quoi, cf. bi for bisexual.
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