Quoisexual (also called WTFsexual or Whatsexual) is a sexual equivalent of quoiromantic. It can also be considered a catchall or umbrella term for similar identities.
Quoisexual experiences may include:
- Being unsure what sexual attraction is, and therefore being unsure if one has experienced it or not.
- Finding the concept of sexuality/sexual attraction to be inaccessible, inapplicable, or nonsensible
- Being unable to understand sexual attraction as a concept or feeling
- Disidentifying with the concept of sexual attraction, either as a social construct or as something potentially applicable to oneself
- Questioning one’s sexuality for such a long time that the questioning itself becomes the sexuality, rather than a path toward any other identity
- Having a difficulty distinguishing sexual attraction from other types of attraction.
Quoisexual individuals, especially those under the aromantic umbrella, may identify with both or neither the asexual spectrum or allosexuality.[1][2][3]
History
The term quoisexual originated in approximately 2014, after Tumblr user epochryphal (or Cor) coined quoiromantic, itself an alternative to the humorously-intended wtfromantic.[4][5] The "quoi" in quoisexual comes from the French word quoi, meaning "what."
Symbolism
A number of flag designs and symbols have been proposed for quoisexuality.
In 2015, Cor proposed cos own flag design for quoi identities, including quoigender, quoisexual, and quoiromantic: four lavender question marks, rotated in a ring to share a single dot, as if spinning in a circle. This design was overlaid on a cool grey background in a house-shape, instead of the traditional rectangular flag.[6] The choice of question marks as a symbol references the questioning basis of quoi as an identity term.
Prior to that, other flag design proposals for a quoiromantic and quoisexual flag have combined blue, green, black, and white or gray, in varying configurations.[7]
The earliest of these appears to have been first proposed in 2014, with stripes in black, white, lime green, and light blue, but was later redesigned in approximately 2015, to black, a more muted green, a more muted blue, and pale gray.[8][9] These designs were created by Eris chaotic-evil-gender on Tumblr, now non_bi_nary on Twitter. The original posts for both of these proposals appear to have since been lost and can only be accessed in their archived form via the Wayback Machine.
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More recently, some simplified designs have been proposed inspired by the nontraditional flag shape idea, using a triangular flag shape instead, with the intent of being easier to physically reproduce.[10] Like Cor's design, these designs exhibit a ring of question mark symbols sharing a single dot, except that the number of question marks is three instead of four. These designs have been proposed in both a green and a lavender version, in reference to previous designs. The green version is intended for quoi orientation identities, specifically. The lavender version is intended for quoi identities as a whole, as with Cor's design, "to honor its intentional vagueness." This leaves it open to use for other types of quoi identities, such as quoigender or quoigenic.
Another quoisexual flag was posted by tumblr user hghrules. Like Cor's design, it was intended to represent all the quoi identities. The two lines are an optical illusion; the brain struggles to understand whether they are the same color or not due to the color surrounding them. It is purple because "there are so many names for purple" that it just gets confusing and is hard to identify at all.
References
- ↑ Quoisexual narrative Dead Link
- ↑ Quoisexual narrative
- ↑ Quoisexual narrative
- ↑ Broading quoi to quoisexual
- ↑ Quoiro/WTFromantic: a brief timeline of disidentification with & personal rejection of romantic orientation
- ↑ Cor's Quoi Flag Proposal
- ↑ Quoiromantic Flag Designs
- ↑ Old version of the black-green-blue flag design
- ↑ Later version of the black-green-blue design
- ↑ Simplified Quoi Flag Proposals