Femsexual

From LGBTQIA

Femsexual, or femmesexual, is a sexual orientation describing an individual who is exclusively attracted to individuals with feminine genders or feminine gender presentations regardless of gender identity.

Femsexual could be considered similar to or a microlabel of pansexual.

The spelling femmesexual may also be interpreted to describe attracted to femmes.

Related Terms

Term Relationship Description Difference
Gynesexual Similar Refers to an individual who is sexually attracted to women. Gynesexual relates to those who are attracted to women, Femsexual relates to feminine presentation.
Finsexual Similar Describes attraction to individuals who are feminine in nature (FIN). Finsexual only describes fingender individuals.
Mascsexual Counterpart Refers to an individual who is exclusively attracted to those with masculine genders or masculine presentation. Mascsexual is the masculine equivalent of Femsexual.
Womasexual Similar Describes attraction to women and female-aligned gender identities. Womasexual is only women and female/feminine-aligned genders.

History

The earliest use of the term was by Twitter user BadBadOfelia on October 30, 2010, though no definition was given.[1] The most commonly seen definition of femmesexual was created by Urban Dictionary user cynxcity on September 12, 2011.[2]

On June 15, 2020, femmesexual/femsexual was coined by HakuoTan and was defined as the attraction to women, femmes, feminine-aligned non-binary individuals, and androgynous non-binary individuals.

The femmesexual flag was created by Tumblr user dreamcast-official and an anonymous creator on January 21, 2019.[3]

On February 25, 2020, Tumblr user lithigender redesigned the femmesexual flag based on the gynesexual flag.[4]

HakuoTan created a femmesexual flag on June 15, 2020.

Resources

  1. BadBadOfelia. Twitter, https://archive.ph/kizkr. Accessed on 23 Jul. 2024. Archived on 25 Aug. 2022.
  2. Cynxcity. "Femsexual". Urban Dictionary, https://archive.ph/9zd89. Accessed on 23 Jul. 2024. Archived on 25 Aug. 2022.
  3. Dreamcast. "Femmesexual". Tumblr, https://archive.ph/ON2b1. Accessed on 23 Jul. 2024. Archived on 23 Mar. 2022.
  4. lithigender. "femmesexual flag". Tumblr, https://archive.ph/Afdzc. Accessed on 23 Jul. 2024. Archived on 25 Aug. 2022.