autochorissexual

comparative more autochorissexual · superlative most autochorissexual

1. Experiencing sexual arousal or fantasies disconnected from oneself and/or without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.

   For autochorissexual participants, kinks and fetishes were understood as part of an individual’s unique desires and fantasies, which were either undesirable – or impossible – to experience in real-life.

   2019, Thom Winter-Gray, Nikki Hayfield, “'Can I be a kinky ace?': How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes”, in Psychology & Sexuality

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   It is possible that some asexual individuals will also be autochorissexual in that they are not sexually attracted to anyone or anything, but may nonetheless require explicit stimuli to facilitate masturbation to orgasm.

   2014 August, Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto, Boris B. Gorzalka, “Sexual fantasy and masturbation among asexual individuals”, in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, volume 23, number 2, page 93

   The fact that some asexuals masturbate, but separate this activity from images of themselves as sexual and from sexual fantasies, supports the notion that some asexuals might be autochorissexual (Bogaert, 2012).

   2015, Parul Modi, "Do men and women with asexual identities show low category specificity in their patterns of sexual attraction and attention to male and female swimsuit models?", thesis submitted to California State University, Fullerton

   Synonyms: aegosexual