The Fourteen A’s of Identity, Expression and Attraction

• Assignment – birth sex
• Attribution – raised infant gender
• Actualisation – identity, gender or otherwise
• Appearance – expression
• Affinity – social/identity sense of belonging
• Allegiance – social/identity act of allying
• Appellation – label, if any
• Attraction – orientation
• Appetite – ranging from fantasy to desire, or lack thereof
• Approach – romance, seduction, aromantic, casual etc
• Activity – sexual or other behaviour
• Augmentation – accessories, alternative, cos/roleplay, kink, fetish
• Adherence – persistent or one-off, monogamous or poly
• Agreement – social relationship contract, if any, eg monogamy, polyamory