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Ceterosexual

Ceterosexual describes being sexually attracted to non-binary people or people outside the gender binary.

Ceterosexual describes a person whose sexual attraction is directed toward non-binary people and others outside the man/woman binary. The word borrows the Latin "cetero," meaning "other," and was coined as an alternative to "skoliosexual," which some found carried negative roots. It centers attraction to genderqueer, agender, and non-binary people, and definitions vary on whether attraction to gender-nonconforming cisgender people is also included. The label is sometimes chosen by non-binary people themselves to name their own patterns of attraction. It is a newer community term rather than a clinical one, and it describes an orientation, not a fetish. A romantic counterpart, ceteromantic, follows the same idea.

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