Tertiary Attraction is a term from aro-spec communities to describe forms of attraction other than romantic and sexual. Typically romantic relationship contain a mix of all of these forms of attraction, but, because one or more form of attraction is missing it becomes easier for a-spec people to point out alternate forms of attraction.
While often dismissed by society tertiary attractions can be felt just as strongly as the attraction experienced by alloromantics/sexuals.
Tertiary attractions can be given modifiers using the usual prefixes. For example one can be bialterous, meaning they experience alterous attraction towards people of two or more genders.
Tertiary attraction is named such because romantic and sexual attraction are typically split into the 'main' two attractions using the split attraction model.
Forms of Tertiary Attraction
- Aesthetic Attraction
- Alterous Attration
- Platonic Attraction
- Queerplatonic Attraction
- Sensual Attraction