

The second is one who has 'tender' feelings for men, but 'passionate' feelings for women (if the person was a man- the reverse if they were a woman). The first is described as one who has both 'tender' and 'passionate' feelings for both men and women. Amount his works he described people who are 'konjunktiver and disjunktiver' or 'conjunctive and disjunctive bisexuality' 2 In those books Ulrichs came up with various classifications of orientations which are fairly similar to modern LGB+ identities. The first recorded instance of a model of orientation taking into account split attraction was in 1879, by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German writer, who published 12 books on non-heterosexual attraction. Either way the a-spec person identifies both their romantic and sexual orientation. They could also identify as 'aromantic and gay/lesbian'.

If someone is aromantic but still feels sexual attraction toward people of the same gender they could identify and 'aromantic and homosexual'. There are several ways to express their split attraction. For example, one would not have to say 'pansexual and panromantic' they could just say they're pansexual. If someone's sexual and romantic orientation are the same they can use one word. In those cases the a-spec person may describe their identity using the SAM. For explain, an asexual person may feel romantic attraction, and an aromantic person may feel sexual attraction. The SAM states that for some people sexual attraction and romantic attraction are two different things. The split attraction model or SAM is a model of attraction used by many ace-spec and aro-spec people to describe their identity. 1 Models Of Attraction Split-Attraction Model (SAM) There is some amount of debate as to what types of attraction actually exist. Asexuals do not experience sexual attraction, but some feel other types of attraction.

Attraction in the context of AVEN refers to a mental or emotional force that draws people together.
