#masexual

Etymology — From the Greek andro ("man; male; masculine")

Flag Symbolism (TLDR) — The flag symbolism is as follows:

Blue represents "attracted to masculinity" androsexuality. There are two shades of blue, representing a spectrum of masculinity.

Green represents "attracted to men" androsexuality. There are two shades of green, representing a spectrum of manhood.

Cyan represents the overlap of the two versions of androsexuality.

Flag Symbolism (Full Explanation) — I wanted to create an alternative to the most common androsexual flag.

Blue represents people who identify as androsexual because they are attracted to masculinity. Blue was chosen for masculinity because it is often culturally perceived as a masculine color. There are two shades of blue, representing a spectrum of masculinity.

Green represents people who identify as androsexual because they are attracted to men. Green was chosen for manhood because it is a mix of blue and yellow (a color sometimes used to represent gender neutrality or gender diversity). Mixing yellow with blue to make green makes the symbolism of manhood distinct from the symbolism of masculinity. There are two shades of green, representing a spectrum of manhood.

Cyan represents represents people who identify as androsexual for both reasons. Cyan was chosen for the combination of both forms of symbolism because it is between blue and green on the color wheel.

This flag is inclusive of the following:

People who identify as androsexual because they are attracted to masculinity (without this necessarily being tied to gender)

People who identify as androsexual because they are attracted to men (not necessarily just masculine men)

People who identify as androsexual for both reasons

People who identify as androsexual exclusively

People who identify as androsexual non-exclusively

People who identify with a different suffix (e.g. androromantic)

This flag is not inclusive of people who identify as androsexual because they're attracted to "male anatomy" regardless of gender. This definition of androsexuality implicitly misgenders and excludes trans and intersex people.

Term coined by — unknown

Flag made by — bloomcoining (July 1, 2025)

Tags — @radiomogai @liom-archive @liomarchive @imoga-pride @imoga-archive

I tried to write a simple definition, but I couldn't.

Thinking of my own orientation, I'm attracted to masculinity + men specifically, as a masculine man. Like, way back when I was questioning things, I've heard of the question, 'what's your dream girl' or whatever, so I listed off my fav traits to myself and realised, wait a second, isn't that just a stereotypically masculine man? Woops! That's kind of gay XD. I mean, someone could be like that, and a woman, but also... I think even IDing as a man counts as an attractive trait for me :p. So I have some attraction to masculine women, but it's just not as much as masculine men. Also also, that means I'm not attracted to feminine men either, like the femboy jokes, I never got them... Anyways, so MINsexual fits, as well as masexual, MINmasexual, if you will. But... those terms don't specify the users gender, or any other qualities, and I'm very specifically attracted to them as a masculine man, in a gay/homosexual way, it wouldn't be the same otherwise... actually, I imagine, in an alternative universe where I'm a feminine woman, I really think I'd be lesbian / FINwomasexual / attracted to feminine women specifically too... what can I say, I'm the best and I like the best hehe /narcissist /positive. I also know of lavenian, and it's just, I wish there was a gender conforming or masculine version of this (and yeah, being gender conforming and masculine, even as a man, isn't exactly the same, but, they're still related. I use both). So I guess... lupian is the GC counterpart of lavenian? Sort of. Also... MMxMM? (Like those GxG / [gender]x[gender] terms, but I added an extra M to mean masculine man instead of just man...

Ugh... This is basically just me and hu-husband (* ´ ﹃｀*) (* ´ ﹃｀*) anyways, so it doesn't matter if it's not written well...

Slightly silly flag explanation:

Based off the 5 striped turian/veldian/etc. and lavenian flags (by Kenochoric). I recoloured it greyscale + bluescale because I asscoiate those colours with stereotypical masculinity. I also wanted a matching flowery sort of name, so I just picked a random blue flower, lupine specifically, I like that it's misunderstood and can grow in soil other plants can't, I think that's neat (* ´ ﹃｀*). I just changed the spelling to -ian, like other terms (turian, veldian, lesbian, queerian, there are a lot...).

Full silly flag explanation:

The cyan and grey is for husband (* ´ ﹃｀*) those are his colours, and the dark blues are my colours. I like his colours and he likes me my colours, they're kind of similar anyways. And the white means,,, m-marriage > _ < bc we r married, and we love each other. Husbnad (* ´ ﹃｀*) husband. Also there's two plants bc there's two of us. We're holding hands. Or stems, ig. I like touching my husband >_<>_<

Husband.

(* ´ ﹃｀*)