Ansexuality is a lack of interest in all kinds of sexual pleasure, interaction, or attraction, whether it be engaging in it or hearing about other individuals engaging in it. It can also be used to describe feelings of hate towards the concept or experience of sexual feelings. This does not mean the individual hates any individual, or themselves - simply that one strongly dislikes, or hates, the aesthetic of sex and/or genitalia, and overall dreads the idea of sexual attraction.
Some ansexual individuals might even feel a wave of hate towards even the smallest bit of attraction, even when just trying to find somebody’s appearance/aesthetic attractive.
This does not mean that an individual cannot be in romantic, platonic, or other kinds of relationships.
Ansexual may be shortened to ‘ance,’ ‘anse,’ or ‘anze.’ Variations include ance-jump and demiance-jump.
Ansexuality may be described as an agenrine identity. Similar terms include sex repulsed, apothisexual, and anticarnal. The romantic counterpart is anromantic.
Ansexual vs. Asexual
Ansexual Feelings
- Intense distaste once one almost begins to feel sexually aroused, i.e, looking away, hiding face, not to be confused with shyness.
- Loss of appetite after looking at another, who would normally be attractive on other’s terms.
There are many more.
Asexual Feelings
- No sexual attraction, yet not necessarily hate/distaste.