Allonormativity

Allonormativity is the assumption that all humans experience sexual attraction. It contributes to discrimination against asexual individuals via social systems and structures which privilege or incentivize sexual relationships over single individuals.

The term could be considered an expansion of heteronormativity, the idea that heterosexuality is the default or normative sexuality. The term is often used when discussing the pathologization, erasure, and dehumanization of asexual and aromantic individuals in society, media, and within academic discourses.

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