Friday, 1 December 2023

Reanna created a term for herself: demophilic. It describes a multi-spec attraction that can't be properly labelled. ("I'm attracted to different kinds of people, but that's all I know.") In her case, she couldn't label it because she's bigender and because the attraction can be vague sometimes.

For a long time, we thought Reanna didn't care to label her sexuality out of apathy. She said that before we existed, she would brush off her vague attraction to women as "making it up." She kept calling herself straight, even though she didn't feel straight anymore. F.M. got her to at least consider other labels. (He pushed for bisexual.)

And then, Reanna hit a roadblock.

Nothing she tried fit. "I'm not feeling attraction towards men, so I must be a lesbian. Wait! But my crush on Rob [drummer for Linkin Park.] Maybe I am just straight. But I felt both! But it doesn't feel bi. What about the attraction to the trans peeps? But it doesn't feel like everyone." Not even abrosexual fit. And there was also the fear of being wrong.

So, we resorted to making our own terms. F.M. and I created apasexual... Until we learned it already exists. I created demosexual, but Reanna said the attraction didn't always feel sexual. Then, she created demophilic and felt happy.

P.S. Reanna said she would rather have me talk about her than talk about herself.

Update: Reanna realized she's abrisexual. She made a post, but I'd thought I update anyway.