Eriscarnal

Eriscarnal is a term under the ARCsexual umbrella for when one has conflicting and/or mixed and/or changing feelings towards sex. It commonly occurs as a disconnect between one's conscious desires and one's subconscious reactions. For example, one may feel sex repulsion but still desires a sexual relationship, or one may feel sexual attraction but be repulsed at one's own sexual thoughts. Other examples include: one feels sex-repulsed one day and then indifferent or favorable the next or ones feelings about sex change depending on the situation (e.g. one feels only sex favorable when having a partner who is sexually attracted to them or only feeling favorable towards specific sexual actions and indifferent or repulsed towards others).

Eriscarnal can be used by both asexual and allosexual people to express their feelings towards sex.