Willie B. Thomas / Getty Images
What Does the Term Graysexual Mean?
Graysexualis asexual identityterm used to describe people who don’t often experience sexual drive or attraction.
Graysexual cn also be spelled as “greysexual.”
Willie B. Thomas / Getty Images
Shortened version of the term include: grayce, gray-A, grace, and gray-ace.
Prior to that, graysexuality hadn’t been acknowledged publicly as its own sexual identity outside of asexuality.
They differ in some important ways, though.
What Does Asexual Mean?
While graysexuality falls under the umbrella category of asexuality, the two are not interchangeable.
What Does Demisexual Mean?
Demisexuality means that a person requires emotional connection to get to feel sexual attraction to others.
They might not even want to engage in them ever.
If you are graysexual, you might go months, or even years, without wanting to have sex.
Like all identities, graysexuality is individual and there is no quantifiable element to it.
There is no standard frequency that a graysexual person thinks, or doesn’t think, about sex.
In general, we base what graysexual is against how oftenallosexualpeople think about sex or act upon sexual urges.
Similarly, a person who is grayromantic may experience occasional feelings of romance.
In truth, there is no right or wrong way to be!
This work of explaining or answering questions isemotional labor.
They May Feel Lonely Less Often
Additionally,some graysexuals saythey are less likely to feel alone.
The Asexual Visibility & Education web connection.The Gray Area.
MIC.6 actual facts about what it really means to be asexual.
2021 Dec 17;110.
