Split Attraction Model - Tumblr Posts
The first split attraction model (SAM) was made in 1879 by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and described bisexuality as well as heteroromantic homosexuality. There’s literally a whole ass wikipedia article on this. Let’s use our brains here a bit, okay?
I used to think romance was a social construct, but I'm changing my view. Here's how I actually think it works
Attraction (i personally don't use the split attraction model because I experience both every time) occurs when I meet someone and they have personality traits and appearance I like
This desire makes me want to be around them, get their attention, and talk to them more
Some of what people describe as romance- like wanting to be around the person or always thinking about them, is just the biological symptoms of attraction
Yet the ways we express this and shape our relationships is shaped by social expectations for how we should act. Like the ideas of marriage, big romantic gestures, maybe even monogamy. Rings? Flowers? Dates? These things are made up.
It's like gender. Something we intrinsically feel which has been drastically shaped by society's norms.
ID: a Wikipedia screenshot about the split attraction model, reading 'The first recorded conceptualization of orientation that took into account split attraction was in 1879 by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German writer who published 12 books on non-heterosexual attraction. In these books, Ulrichs has presented several classifications that are quite similar to modern LGBTQIA+ identities. Among his works, he described people who are "konjunktiver Uranodioning" and "disjunktiver Uranodioning" or conjunctive bisexuality and disjunctive bisexuality. The former is described as having tender and passionate feelings for both men and women, which would be a biromantic bisexual in modern times. The second is one who has tender feelings for people of the same gender/sex, but 'in love' feelings for people of a different gender/sex, which would now be a heteroromantic homosexual. However, the Ulrichs model never became popular due to its complexity.' The screenshot has an added text overlay in the center that reads 'reblog to scare an exclusionist' in all caps. The font appears to be impact font. End ID
posting this on it's own