Strangers from Halsey's album Hopeless Fountain Kingdom
Alloarophobia is a product of amatonormativity that means the hatred of aromantics who are not asexual. In society, alloaros tend to be treated as heartless players who don't have emotions and only care about sex.
This can be explained through Halsey's song Strangers. The chorus of the song goes:
We're not lovers
We're just strangers
With the same damn hunger
To be touched, to be loved, to feel anything at all
The song follows Rosa and Luna, a couple who've recently broken up because they stopped feeling romantically attracted to each other but now only feel sexual attraction. However, they still both evidently miss and care about their ex.
In an alloarophobic world, this would never have been what Halsey intended, but through an aspec lens, it tells the story of an alloaro couple who struggle with internalised alloarophobia. Society tells us that the only sexual relationship we can have is the one with our permanent romantic partner, so Rosa and Luna chose not to have a relationship at all, despite how much they still cared.
Sexual relationships without romance are just as purely healthy and valid as any other, no matter what society says.
No colour under the cut
