Meanings
- not comparableRomantically attracted to non-cisgender people.
Luckily, I don’t have to have only one label—I can identify as homosexual and skolioromantic at the same time.
2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT+, page 1542 more examples
Skolio- refers to people who are romantically (skolioromantic) or sexually (skoliosexual) attracted to people of nonbinary genders.
2017, Paul Byron et al., ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Directory, Young and Well CRC, Western Sydney University, page 60Some authors on asexuality have attempted to create subcategories of aesthetic attractions as well. Julie Sondra Decker describes the variants of aesthetic attraction on the basis of specific traits, with sub-labels including androromantic, gyneromantic, skolioromantic or ambiromantic, pomoromantic, lithromantic (Decker, 2014, 21).
2023, Maya Ghosh Lisbin, A-Spec: Conceptualizing asexual identity, experience and phenomenological form, Brandeis University (thesis), page 30
Origin
- Ancient Greekσκολιός“curved, bent”
- Englishskolioromantic
From Ancient Greek σκολιός (skoliós, “curved, bent”) + romantic, modelled after skoliosexual.
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