Anonymous user
m
Fixed alterhuman-exclusive language, and added mention of perioriented.
RealityBent (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
m (Fixed alterhuman-exclusive language, and added mention of perioriented.) |
||
Line 1:
[[Category:Terminology]]
[[File:Sam.png|thumb|220x220px|A visual representation of the SAM using a modified Kinsey scale. Someone can fall anywhere on the two scales. For some, their placement on the two scales is the same, for others they have two different placements.|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Sam.png]]The '''split attraction model''' or '''SAM''' is a model of attraction used by many [[Asexual Spectrum|ace-spec]] and [[Aromantic Spectrum|aro-spec]]
If someone's sexual and romantic orientation are the same they can simply use one word (this is called [[perioriented]]). For example, one would not have to say "pansexual and panromantic", as they could just say they're [[pansexual]]. The exception to this is [[aroace]], which is often said together because only saying one could imply that one is [[Alloromantic Asexual|alloromantic asexual]] or [[Aromantic Allosexual|allosexual aromantic]] or lead to other confusion. Someone whose sexual orientation and romantic orientation don't match might
Not all a-spec people use the SAM, and one should not assume that another uses the SAM until the other people says so. Most notably are [[Non-SAM Aro|non-SAM aros]], but some
==History==
The first recorded instance of a model of orientation taking into account split attraction was in 1879, by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German writer, who published 12 books on non-heterosexual attraction. In those books Ulrichs came up with various classifications of orientations which are fairly similar to modern LGBTA+ identities. Among his works he described people who are ' konjunktiver and disjunktiver' or 'conjunctive and disjunctive bisexuality'<ref>http://hubertkennedy.angelfire.com/FirstTheorist.pdf</ref>. The first is described as one who has both 'tender' and 'passionate' feelings for both men and women. The second is one who has 'tender' feelings for men, but 'passionate' feelings for women (if the person was a man- the reverse if they were a woman). However, Ulrichs' model never caught on due to the complexity.
Line 16:
Other asexuals also began using additional attraction terms, such as emotional attraction, sensual attraction, and aesthetic attractions, starting in the early 2000s.<ref>[https://theacetheist.wordpress.com/2019/05/17/a-mini-history-of-different-types-of-attraction-in-the-ace-community/ A Mini History of Different Types of Attraction in the Ace Community]</ref><ref>[https://secondlina.tumblr.com/post/21955456091/a-comic-about-the-different-types-of-attraction A comic about different types of attraction]</ref> These attraction types could also be paired with parallel orientation identity terms (ex. pansensual, panaesthetic), but that application of them wasn't necessarily as common.
The specific term "split attraction model" being used to describe this concept originated on Tumblr in 2015. The original use of the term was from aphobes and [[Exclusionist|exclusionists]] talking about how the ace community supposedly required that everyone (including non-
==References==
<br />
|