Protective/Docile Attraction Labels & Flags
First, I will define these for anyone not caught up to speed
Protective attraction: also known as tutelary or dominant attraction, a tertiary attraction describing a desire to provide for, care for, protect and guide someone or an animal, e.g. a child, pet, friend, family member or partner. Flags
Docile attraction: also known as submissive or cedural attraction, a tertiary attraction describing a desire to provide for, care for, protect and guide someone or an animal, e.g. a child, pet, friend, family member or partner. Flags
Docile attraction, to me, sounds more familiar to most people, plus doesn't sound too similar to D/s terminology (submissive). I will still include alternative names with the -submissive & -dominant suffixes if you prefer to use them. I felt "docile" more complimented protective than cedural or submissive.
In this post, I will use docile/cedural and tutelary/protective attraction interchangeably.
The shortening from -docile to -dove is inspired by the peaceful nature of doves, including needing a lot of gentle love and care to be happy: Source 1 Source 2
These are not the same as BDSM D/s dynamics because tutelary and cedural attraction are emotional attraction subtypes (source). Like other emotional attraction subtypes, protective and docile attraction can develop into coexisting with sexual or romantic attraction later.
You don't need to be involved in BDSM, kink or be sexually or romantically attracted to experience either attraction. You can be both a D/s and protective &/or docile attraction, as well.
You can absolutely be aromantic, asexual or aroace and experience protective and/or docile attraction, as they are tertiary attractions (or attractions outside of sexual and romantic).
Demiprotective (left): Only having tutelary attraction after a deep, emotional bond has been formed. Can also be called demidominant or demitutelary. Shortened to Demipro.
Demidocile (right): Only having cedural attraction after a deep, emotional bond has been formed. Can also be called demicedural or demisubmissive. Shortened to Demidove.
Frayprotective (left): The opposite of demiprotective, or only expericing tutelary attraction with people or animals they don't have a deep, emotional bond with. When they develop an emotional bond, the attraction fades away. Can also be called Fraydominant or Frayprotective. Shortened to Fraypro.
Fraydocile (right): The opposite of demidocile, or only expericing cedural attraction with people or animals they don't have a deep, emotional bond with. When they develop an emotional bond, the attraction fades away. Can also be called Fraysubmissive or fraycedural. Shortened to Fraydove.
Greyprotective (left): Having tutelary attraction rarely or only under certain circumstances. Can also be Greytutelary or Greydominant. Shortened to greypro.
Greydocile (right): Having cedural attraction rarely or only under certain circumstances. Can also be called Greysubmissive or Greycedural. Shortenend to Greydove
Aprotective (left): someone who does not experience tutelary attraction. Can also be called adominant or atutelary. Shortened to Apro.
Adocile (right): someone who does not experience cedural attraction. Can also be called Acedural or asubmissive. Shortened to Adove.
Tucerian (top left): someone who experiences both tutelary/protective and cedural/docile attraction, whether at the same time or not.
combination of tutelary + cedural
Demitucerian (top right): someone who does not experiences both tutelary and cedural attraction until they have a deep, emotional bond.
Fraytucerian (bottom left): someone whose tutelary and cedural attractions fade away as they develop an emotional bond with the person or animal; opposite of demitucerian.
Graytucerian (bottom middle): someone who experiences both tutelary and cedural attraction rarely or only in certain circumstances.
Atucerian (bottom right): someone who does not experience neither tutelary nor cedural attraction.
