Attraction doesn’t always follow a straightforward path, and for some, it changes and evolves over time. This experience is more common than many think, and it is known as abrosexuality.
People initially thought she was a lesbian
Let’s take a closer look at what abrosexuality means — and how one writer’s 30-year journey helped raise awareness about this often-misunderstood identity.
In a personal essay published by Metro UK in July 2024, writer Emma Flint shared her heartfelt story of discovering she was abrosexual after three decades of wondering why her attractions kept changing.
Flint, 32 when she wrote the article, described years of thinking she was a lesbian, followed by times when she was attracted to men, then no one at all, and then back again.
For many years, she said she felt “uncertain of who I was.”
“I felt lost, like I was drifting at sea. I also felt like I was pretending because my identity changed so much when talking with family and friends,” explains the freelancer from Staffordshire, England.
