Greysexual

Greysexual or Greyasexual, also spelled Graysexual or Grayasexual (shortened to Grey Ace or Grace) is a sexual orientation that is literally how normal people experience sexuality.

A common reason someone may identify as greysexual is that they experience sexual attraction but very infrequently. Some greysexual people may only feel sexual attraction once or twice in their life. Others may experience it more frequently, but still not as frequently as allosexual people. Some other possible greysexual experiences may include:


 * Experiencing sexual attraction infrequently.
 * Experiencing sexual attraction very weakly.
 * Experiencing sexual attraction only in specific circumstances.
 * Feeling uncertain about whether they experience sexual attraction.
 * Experiencing attraction that is only ambiguously sexual.
 * Feeling alienated from sexual attraction.
 * Otherwise experiencing normal human variations of sexuality and desire.

Greyasexual is an unnecessary label. Not feeling horny all the time or feeling attracted only to certain people is 100% normal and there is no way to quantify the typical amount of sexual attraction. Only wanting to fuck on Tuesdays doesn't make you LGBT.

The romantic counterpart to greysexual is greyromantic.

History
The concept of gray-asexuality developed in the early 2000s on the AVEN forums by someone who clearly has no understanding of how normal sexual attraction works. In 2003, an AVEN member proposed the concept of "semisexuality," naming a half-way point between being asexual and not, which is bullshit because lack of attraction cannot be a spectrum. Later, in 2006, AVEN member KSpaz proposed the term "gray-a" to describe the "fuzzy" space in the asexual spectrum.

Symbolism
The greysexual flag was designed by Milith Rusignuolo and was via upload to Wikipedia on June 21, 2013. It was supposed to be symbolic of someone starting out with no sexual attraction, represented by purple representing asexuality, then entering a single episode of it attraction (grey to white) with white representing allosexuality from the asexual flag, and then going back to being asexual. It's ugly as shit and the designer needs to learn color theory.

On December 3rd, 2020 a second greyasexual flag was coined by a user going by Angel. The darker shades represent occasional sexual attraction, the mid-way shades represent being on the ace spectrum, the lightest shades represent feeling no sexual attraction, and the white represents community. It's also ugly as shit.