zedsexual

English

Etymology

From zed +‎ -sexual as a play on asexual, since the sexuality falls on the other side of the sexual spectrum from asexuality, as the letters "A" and "Z" are on opposite ends of the alphabet.[1]

Adjective

zedsexual (comparative more zedsexual, superlative most zedsexual)

  1. (neologism) Not asexual; experiencing sexual attraction to others.
    Synonyms: allosexual, sexual
    Antonym: asexual
    • 2015, "Omnes et Nihil", "Situating This Zine & The Ace Sex Wars", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 3, June 2015, page 5:
      Most significantly, it was a time before zedsexual people started (en masse) appropriating ace educational materials and mainstream ace discourse to perpetrate and/or justify anti-ace sexual coercion and rape […]
    • 2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT, unnumbered page:
      But what about people who don't feel completely asexual or zedsexual?
    • 2019, Jo Teut, "Integrating Asexuality: A is for Asexual in LGBTQIA+", New Directions for Community Colleges, Winter 2019, page 96:
      Both asexual and zedsexual (non-asexual) people tend to experience different attractions on a spectrum of intensity, from none ever to all the attraction all the time, with many different nuanced levels in between.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:zedsexual.

References
  1. Julie Sondra Decker, The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, unnumbered page
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