aro-allo

English

Alternative forms

• aroallo

Etymology

From aro +‎ allo.

Adjective

aro-allo (comparative more aro-allo, superlative most aro-allo)

1. (informal, neologism) Aromantic and allosexual.
   • 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex‎^[1], page 130:

     It was always clear that my beliefs — that an aro-allo woman was independent while an aro-allo man was a fuckboy — were gendered stereotypes I should disavow.

   • 2020 August 12, Transcendragon (@a_the_orange), Twitter‎^[2]:

     It seems like aro-allo people often have distinct experiences and face distinct challenges.

   • 2021 October 12, Ian Stobaugh, “Experiences of an aromantic, not asexual”, in The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, page 3:

     Aroallo people are not automatically hypersexual, nor are we predators.

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Noun

aro-allo (plural aro-allos)

1. (informal, neologism) An aromantic and allosexual person.
   • 2019 September 15, press y to honk (@ghostburritos), Twitter‎^[3]:

     stop treating aroallos like they're just shitty people for being interested in sex and not romance 2k19

   • 2021 October 14, Ace Girl (@acegirleatscake), Twitter‎^[4]:

     Harmful stereotypes about aroallos is that “they want sex all the time” and they’re “hypersexual” when that’s just not true.

   • 2022 June 1, keris (@keropiji), Twitter‎^[5]:

     please start including aroallos more. i see a lot of people assuming all aros are ace, which is frankly untrue and are harmful to both communities. it’s very hard to find aroallos in media too

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:aro-allo.