It is the force which upholds compulsory sexuality, the social systems and structures which privilege or incentivize sexual relationships over single individuals.
[1][2] The term could be considered an expansion of heteronormativity, the idea that heterosexuality is the default or normative sexuality.
The term is often used when discussing the pathologization,[3] erasure,[4] and dehumanization[5] of asexual and aromantic individuals in society, media, and within academic discourses.
The second element, -normativity, refers to the societal worldview which deems allosexuality as normal or desired.
Allonormativity, by its definition, denies the existence of asexual identity in humans.