Abrosexual, a new sexual identity, has come to the fore, sparking discussion about sexual preferences that are less talked about. Emma Flint, 30, a UK journo shared her account on coming out as an abrosexual and how she got dismissed by a close friend who thought it didn't sound real.
Flint says being an abrosexual means having a sexuality that is fluid which means it keeps shifting or fluctuating, and she only learnt about the concept two years ago at the age of 30 after struggling for years to understand her sexuality that changed so quickly.
Being abrosexual means a person may feel attracted to a specific gender, but days or weeks later they may start experiencing romantic or sexual interest in another gender or sexuality, which means they may identify with different sexual labels at different times.
Flint said: "One day I felt like I was a lesbian, yet days or weeks later, I’d feel more aligned with bisexuality. My sexuality was fluid."
What is abrosexuality?
The term 'abro' means delicate or graceful. A person who's abrosexual may be attracted to men for a certain period, say weeks or months, and may have a period where they are not sexually attracted to anyone. It can be followed by a time when they start liking women.
Abrosexuality is one of the orientations where people feel sexually attracted to more than one gender. In this case the preferences fluctuate over a period of time.
Similar to abrosexual is abroromantic where a person may feel romantically attracted to people with different sexual identities but may not want to have sex.
Abrosexual is also different from pansexual as the latter are attracted to all genders or sexuality while the former may at some time periods be pansexual, heterosexual or asexual (who do not feel sexual attraction at all).
"Some abrosexual people might identify with different sexuality labels at different times — for example, some days they might use the label pansexual, whereas other days they might use the label lesbian. Other abrosexual people might just use the label abrosexual. This label can be thought of as the sexuality version of the gender identity label genderfluid (describing a gender that shifts and changes)," LGBTQ+ advocate Zoe Stoller told Buzzfeed.
