Citations:aromantic

English citations of aromantic

Adjective: "not given to experiencing romantic attraction to others"

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• 2007, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, Issues 34-37, page 359:

  As an aromantic asexual, she focuses her energies on a few close friends and remains a fiercely independent member of the asexual community.

• 2007, Shelley Bridgeman, "No sex please, we're asexual", The New Zealand Herald, 5 August 2007:

  He says his findings suggest that many asexual people are not aromantic.

• 2011, Kishan Kirkwood, "Just average", The Sun (Blenheim, New Zealand), 12 January 2011, page 8:

  Anyone with a choice would need their head read to want to get kicked out of home, lose support (financial and emotional) from parents, be left with only my friends and minimal possessions, and then have to watch the love of your life become an aromantic asexual and lose all contact because of overwhelming homophobic behaviour.

• 2011, Soojin Chang, "Sex is the biggest nothing", The Daily Californian, 28 November 2011:

  Although there are aromantic asexuals who do not experience the instinctual emotional need to be in a romantic relationship, many asexuals seek monogamous partners and value intimate connections just like sexual people.

• 2012, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, Rowman & Littlefield (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  However, if she [Emily Brontë] was asexual, she likely was not aromantic (see chapter 2 for distinction between sex and romance), or at least she had a high-level understanding of romance, as she wrote one of the most intensely romantic novels of her time, Wuthering Heights.

• 2012, Lucy Wallis, "What is it like to be asexual?", BBC News, 17 January 2012:

  There is a difference, for instance between aromantic asexuals and romantic asexuals, says sociologist Mark Carrigan, from the University of Warwick.

• 2012, Marina Hale, "The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51:

  Not everybody has matching sexual and romantic identities, and some are even aromantic.

• 2012, Anonymous, "Pandora's box: The stigmas surrounding aromanticism", The Scripps Voice (Scripps College), Volume 16, Issue 4, 1 November 2012, page 5:

  No, just because I’m aromantic does not automatically mean I am also asexual (I happen to really like sex).

• 2013, Ana Qarri, "What It Means To Be Asexual", Sex and the Steel City (The Silhouette special edition), page 25:

  Some asexual people are aromantic as well, but I would safely say that most do experience romantic attraction.

Noun: "one who does not experience romantic attraction to others"

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• 1986, Wanda Urbanska, The Singular Generation, Doubleday & Company (1986), →ISBN, page 86:

  Ours is a generation of aromantics, jaded about matters of the heart — often before gaining firsthand experience.

• 2012, Marina Hale, "The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51:

  Anna is an asexual, aromantic. Before discovering those terms, she assumed herself to merely be unusually disinterested in sex or relationships.

• 2012, Olivia Gordon, "'The moment I realised I was asexual'", The Telegraph, 12 November 2012:

  'I let it slip one time at work that I’m an asexual aromantic [an asexual who is also not interested in making romantic attachments], and they think it’s absolutely hysterical,’ says Jean Wilson, a sales assistant and 63-year-old grandmother from Banbury. 'One of the women I work with said, “I don’t think you’ve met the right man yet.” I said: “Trish, I’m 63. If I haven’t met him by now I don’t think I’m going to.”’