Gourt Home::Gourt :: Pansexuality
Pansexuality (sometimes referred to as omnisexuality) is a sexual orientation characterized by a potential aesthetic attraction, romantic love and/or sexual desire for anybody, including people who do not fit into the gender binary of male/female implied by bisexual attraction. Pansexuality is sometimes described as the capacity to love a person romantically irrespective of gender. Some pansexuals also assert that gender and sex are meaningless to them.
Romance, Attraction and Preferences
Pansexuals may be attracted to various different forms of romance, and may be aroused by various different acts of sex on a carnal level. It has been stated that pansexuality refers not to a metaphysical order of attraction to other human beings, but rather a more carnal attraction to sexual acts irrespective of gender . Some suggest that pansexuality is more accurately described by its adepts: human- or person-oriented. Despite a pansexual's fluid sexuality, some may have a preference. A pansexual may be attracted to all genders and sexes, but have a preference, (for example) for transsexual men, other pansexuals, masculine lesbians, intersexed people, etc.
Pansexual Sex
Many people who identify as pansexual may associate with people of all sexual orientations, but are not necessarily interested in sex with people of all sexes or genders. They may be comfortable with public displays of affection (PDAs) or semi-public sexual activity which is not confined to their own sexual orientation. *
Pansexuals usually consider any sexual act acceptable as long as it is consensual . For some pansexuals, biological sex is a secondary factor, something that will be discovered if and when sexual interaction takes place.
Confusion with other sexualities
Few pansexuals identify as "queer"; most do not . Oftentimes, they are most comfortable with the term 'pansexual'. Pansexuals are often mistakenly assumed to be either gay or straight, depending on who they are sexually involved with at the time. Some pansexuals also think of themselves as bisexual, though many consider the distinction between the terms significant, as they feel that bisexuality implies attraction solely to those people who fit into the binary of male or female. Similarly, some bisexuals also define as pansexual.
See also
"Pansexuality"