Asexual Phenomenology: The Model of the Mediated Perception of One's Own Sexuality and Compulsory Allosexual Performativity

This article proposes the Model of the Mediated Perception of One’s Own Sexuality (MMPOOS) as a phenomenologically inspired analytical framework for examining the influence of cultural and normative structures on the subjective experience of sexuality, intimacy, and interpersonal bonds. Drawing upon the phenomenological tradition and the concept of epoché, it argues that sexual experience may not present itself in an immediate or neutral manner, but rather be mediated by internalized interpretive systems that condition how individuals understand what they feel. Within this context, the concept of Allosexual Performativity is introduced, understood as the set of sociocultural mechanisms that tend to presume the universality and centrality of sexual attraction, thereby generating normative pressures that may influence the self-interpretation of experience. The MMPOOS is analytically organized around three principal axes: sexual self-concept, sexual intentionality, and intimacy, each of which is further divided into specific phenomenological dimensions. The theoretical framework is expanded through the incorporation of the Split Attraction Model, which allows distinctions to be drawn among different forms of attraction (sexual, romantic, platonic, alterous, aesthetic, and others). Building upon this distinction, a conceptual separation is proposed between baseline relational attraction, romance as a sociocultural construct, and love as a general affective capacity. The article also explores the performative function of sex and autoeroticism within normative systems, as well as the role of amatonormativity, mononormativity, and allonormativity in shaping relational experience. Finally, relationship anarchy is examined as a critique of categorical systems of bonding, proposing a shift away from rigid affective taxonomies toward the analysis of concrete relational experience. The article concludes by advocating a phenomenological approach to sexual self-knowledge grounded in attentive observation of experience rather than prior adherence to fixed identity categories.