Romantic Orientation

• CURIE: gmeow:RomanticOrientation
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/RomanticOrientation
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/sexuality
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A person's SELF-ASSERTED romantic orientation — the pattern of their romantic attraction — as a reified facet pointing (via gmeow:romanticOrientationValue) to an open gmeow:RomanticOrientationValue. A SEPARATE axis from sexual orientation (split-attraction model); the two are mutually independent (e.g. asexual yet biromantic).

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:IdentityFacet

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:RomanticOrientation as a specialized kind of gmeow:IdentityFacet. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Split Attraction

• Source: slices/core/sexuality/examples/split-attraction.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-sexuality-examples-split-attraction

# --- Romantic orientation axis: biromantic — independent of the sexual axis.
ex:romantic a gmeow:RomanticOrientation ;
    gmeow:facetSubject             ex:robin ;
    gmeow:facetVantage             ex:robin ;
    gmeow:romanticOrientationValue gmeow:romanticBiromantic ;
    gmeow:selfAsserted             true .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:IdentityFacet

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to reify a person's self-asserted pattern of romantic attraction as a first-class facet — mutually independent of sexual orientation under the split-attraction model, so asexual-yet-biromantic and aromantic-yet-bisexual are directly expressible.

Avoid when

• Avoid for the pattern of sexual attraction (that is gmeow:SexualOrientation) and avoid inferring it from sexual orientation, gender identity, sex assigned at birth, pronouns, or honorifics; reach for the facet rather than a literal on the person.

How to use

• Mint the facet, link it from the person with gmeow:hasRomanticOrientation, point it at a gmeow:RomanticOrientationValue via gmeow:romanticOrientationValue, and tag it gmeow:hasSensitivity gmeow:sensitivitySensitivePersonal; carry the self-identified versus attributed standpoint on the statement layer and supersede with gmeow:displayable false rather than deletion.

Examples

• ex:lillithRomOrient a gmeow:RomanticOrientation; gmeow:romanticOrientationValue gmeow:romanticBiromantic; gmeow:hasSensitivity gmeow:sensitivitySensitivePersonal.