Talk:Scarlet/@comment-14722-20151004214529/@comment-4010415-20151006212114

@anon You're way off.

1. Gender - Are you psychologically male, female, nonbinary, or genderfluid. Are you cis or trans?

2. Sex - Is your body male, female, or intersex?

3. Romantic - What is your romantic orientation?

Here's the thing, there's a difference between sexual and romantic orientation.

Sexual = You are sexually attracted to them. You see them, and if you find them to be attractive, it can turn you on. They're sexually appealing. You're like "Yeah, I'd bang that."

Romantic = You are romantically attracted to them. You see them, and you're like "I'd date that." Nothing to do with sex.

This allows for descriptors such as, say... asexual heteroromantic. That person does not find people sexually attractive, but they like to date (have a crush on, fall in love with, whatever) people of the opposite sex.

You could also have, for example, heterosexual aromantic. That person finds people of the opposite sex to be sexually attractive, but they have found themselves to have no interest in having a romantic relationship.

The existence of aromantic people is why romantic would be odd.