asexy

English

Etymology

Blend of asexual +‎ sexy.

Adjective

asexy (comparative more asexy, superlative most asexy)

1. (slang) Asexual (not experiencing sexual attraction).

   Synonym: (slang) ace

   • 2007, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, numbers 34-37, page 363:

     One of the first rumored-to-be-asexy relationships can be seen in Henry James's The Bostonians, an 1886 novel that deals with the devotion between two women, Olive and Verena — the work even gave rise to the term "Boston marriages" to describe women who lived together in love with one another without having sex.

   • 2009 August 24, Demian Bulwa, “Asexuals leave the closet, find community”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

     And in June, while wearing an "Asexy Dyke" T-shirt, she marched with two dozen other self-described asexuals in San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade.

   • 2011, Robert Crooks, Karla Baur, Our Sexuality, Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 250:

     Asexual and Proud! is a MySpace community whose goal is to help “asexy” people connect with one another (Bogaert, 2004).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:asexy.

Related terms

• bisexy

 

See also

• aro

 

Anagrams

• y-axes