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[[File:Sam.png|thumb|220x220px|A visual representation of the SAM using a modified Kinsey scale. Someone can fall anywhere on the two scales. For some, their placement on the two scales is the same, for others they have two different placements.|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Sam.png]]The '''split attraction model''' or '''SAM''' is a model of attraction used by many [[Asexual Spectrum|ace-spec]] and [[Aromantic Spectrum|aro-spec]] people to describe their identity, although it can also be used by people who are not [[A-Spec|a-spec]]. The SAM states that for some people sexual attraction and romantic attraction are two different things. Some people may also include their [[Tertiary Attraction|tertiary attraction]] in their use of SAM. For example, an [[asexual]] person may feel romantic attraction, and an [[aromantic]] person may feel sexual attraction. In those cases the [[A-Spec|a-spec]] person may describe their identity using the SAM in order to express both aspects of their identity.
If someone's sexual and romantic orientation are the same they can simply use one word. For example, one would not have to say "pansexual and panromantic" as they could just say they're [[pansexual]]. The exception to this is [[aroace]], which is often said together because only saying one could imply that one is [[Alloromantic Asexual|alloromantic asexual]] or [[Aromantic Allosexual|allosexual aromantic]] or lead to other confusion. Someone whose sexual orientation and romantic orientation don't match might identity as [[varioriented]].
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