{"id":41475,"date":"2024-11-21T19:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41475"},"modified":"2024-11-21T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:50:03","slug":"word-of-the-day-1006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-1006\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Demisexual<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Demisexuality<\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0<a title=\"Sexual orientation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_orientation\">sexual orientation<\/a>\u00a0in which an individual does not experience primary\u00a0<a title=\"Sexual attraction\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_attraction\">sexual attraction<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the type of attraction that is based on immediately observable characteristics such as\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Physical appearance\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Physical_appearance\">appearance<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"Sense of smell\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sense_of_smell\">smell<\/a>\u00a0and is experienced immediately after a first encounter.\u00a0A demisexual person can only experience secondary sexual attraction \u2013 the type of attraction that occurs after the development of an\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Emotional bond\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emotional_bond\">emotional bond<\/a>.\u00a0The amount of time that a demisexual individual needs to know another person before developing sexual attraction towards them varies from person to person.\u00a0Demisexuality is generally categorized on the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Asexuality spectrum\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asexuality_spectrum\">asexuality spectrum<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Demisexuality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/juliebindel.substack.com\/p\/asexuals-the-most-oppressed-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Asexuals: the most oppressed group in the alphabet soup<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <em><strong>Julie Bindel&#8217;s writing and podcasts<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the benefit of any bigots who haven\u2019t bothered reading up on what those particular identities are, let me help you out. Demisexual is an \u201cumbrella term used to describe people who may only feel sexually or romantically attracted to people with whom they have formed an emotional bond\u201d, whereas \u2018greysexual\u2019 (also known as Grey-A) is another umbrella term, this time describing people who experience attraction only occasionally, rarely, or under certain conditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bindel&#8217;s use of the term bigot may be sarcastic or even ironic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demisexual: Demisexuality\u00a0is a\u00a0sexual orientation\u00a0in which an individual does not experience primary\u00a0sexual attraction\u00a0\u2013 the type of attraction that is based on immediately observable characteristics such as\u00a0appearance\u00a0or\u00a0smell\u00a0and is experienced immediately after a first encounter.\u00a0A demisexual person can only experience secondary sexual attraction \u2013 the type of attraction that occurs after the development \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/11\/21\/word-of-the-day-1006\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41476,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41475\/revisions\/41476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}