Our very own qualitative results contribute to this study gap of the proving exactly how a lot of people just who thought themselves asexual be unable to fits its fictophilic (otherwise fictosexual-fictoromantic) thoughts on asexual name, and others negotiate the fresh ‘conflict’ creatively and you can with complete confidence (cf. Bogaert, 2012). From the message boards, instance conversations effortlessly tangle within definitions from ‘names,’ namely, in the event it will be right to speak off ‘asexuality’ in the event the fictophilic sexual tastes continue to exist, otherwise whether fictophilia (fictosexuality-fictoromance) ‘s the proper name in the event it doesn’t require ‘real’ sexual telecommunications.
