Lexicon
A far more comprehensive collection of terms may be found here.
DISCLAIMER: Identity words are difficult to understand and even more difficult to coordinate based on how people are comfortable identifying. This goes for any and all words, and that’s fine. If someone doesn’t want a word used to refer to them, forget what you think you know about the meaning of a word and go with their preference.
ace – a term casually used to refer to someone who is asexual.
aesthetic attraction - a term used to describe attraction based simply on how someone looks, entirely unconnected to any desire to have anything to do with them either romantically or sexually.
agender – someone who identifies as neither male nor female, nor as somewhere between the two as with a number of other non-binary identities (such as genderqueer or androgyne); same as genderless and similar to neutrois.
antisexual – different from asexual, antisexual communicates an actively antagonistic view towards sex and sexuality.
aromantic – although most generally used to describe someone who does not experience romantic attraction, there is no set definition for “aromantic,” and is often left up to individual interpretation.
asexual – someone who does not experience sexual attraction; they may have a romantic orientation or a sex drive, but neither is connected to a desire to either supplement the former or satisfy the latter through coupled sexual activity.
Apositive – another asexual forum, formed with the purpose of encouraging sex positivity and a higher level of discourse about asexuality than is generally to be found on AVEN.
autosexual – someone who does not experience sexual attraction towards other people, but still has and satisfies an independent sex drive.
AVEN - Asexual Visibility and Education Network; the functional hub of the asexual movement, it serves as both a community of asexuals and a source for visibility efforts, both through asexual-generated projects (pride festivals, zines, etc.) and as a source for those outside of the community to gain information and volunteers.
AVENite – someone who participates on AVEN; a member of the AVEN forums (similar to terms such as Wikipedian).
biromantic – someone who experiences romantic attraction to two genders, most commonly men and women.
celibate – a state of sexual abstinence; not all who choose celibacy are asexual, though many asexuals choose celibacy, often by default.
demi-sexual – a term used to describe someone who experiences sexual attraction following emotional closeness, often in a relationship but by no means always.
genderless – see: agender; similar to neutrois.
genderqueer – a very subjective word, used to describe both specific kinds of non-binary identities and all non-binary identities.
grey-A – someone who falls into the grey area between sexuality and asexuality, often used to describe someone for whom sexual attraction is rare or fleeting enough as to be negligible, or at least to place them far enough outside the norm of sexual experience as to mark them as meaningfully different.
heteroromantic – someone who experiences romantic attraction to the presumed opposite gender.
homoromantic – someone who experience romantic attraction to their own gender.
HPOA – Hot Pieces of Ace, the asexuality-focused collaboration YouTube channel begun earlier in 2010.
neutrois – the transsexuals of genderlessness; neutrois are those who feel an active dissociation from either end of the binary gender scale, and wish or seek to be physically sexless, often through removing or diminishing both primary and secondary sex characteristics. Many asexuals identify as neutrois.
non-libidoist – someone who lacks any kind of sex drive; not all asexuals are non-libidoists.
panromantic – someone who experiences romantic attraction to any gender.
polyromantic – those who can experience romantic attraction to multiple genders, but not necessarily all of them.
romantic attraction – a nebulous term defined by the AVENwiki as “a feeling that causes people to desire a romantic relationship with a specific other person.”
sexual – anyone who experiences sexual attraction at a “normal” level or frequency; anyone who is non-ace spectrum/umbrella.
sexual attraction – attraction to someone based on any number of reasons which creates an independent (as in, not tied to wanting to please the other partner, curiosity, etc.) desire for coupled sexual activity. Maybe.
squish – a platonic crush.
transgender – anyone whose gender identity is incongruous with how they were gendered at birth.
transsexual – someone whose sex identity is incongruous with that which with they were born or that which they were assigned at birth, and who elect to change it through hormone replacement therapy (HRT), surgery, or both.
HEY, Charles. I’m stealing this for my own glossary. Okay? Well, too late. ^_^