parasexual
English
Etymology
From para- + sexual.
Adjective
parasexual (not comparable)
- (biology) Exhibiting parasexuality.
- Both parasocial and sexual; being or relating to a one-sided sexual relationship.
- Coordinate term: parasocial
- 2007, Christine Scodari, “Yoko in Cyberspace with Beatles Fans: Gender and the Re-Creation of Popular Mythology”, in Jonathan Gray, C. Lee Harrington, Cornel Sandvoss, editors, Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, New York, NY: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
- Cognizant of but careful not to lend credence to other fans' eroticization of John and Paul's collaboration, this poster echoes the first in valuing the feminine bond between male personae, thereby conceiving them as one unit and implicitly placing others outside this parasocial (or parasexual) relationship, and the relationship between fan and idols, as interlopers.