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what did you first think when you first heard about the word pansexual

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  1. stocking

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    when I first heard the word pansexual I thought it was people who were sexually attracted to and had sex with pans . It's not till a few people have corrected me that I found out that was not the case . I was 15 at the time
    what about you guys ?
     
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    It was probably around a year ago here on EC.
     
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    Qhen I came here

    I still don't know exactly what that word means, I don't know what cisgender means either
     
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    cisgender is someone that's born male or female .

    pansexual is someone who falls in love with people regardless of sex or gender identity .
    if I'm getting it wrong please any pansexual person feel free to correct me
     
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    Hopefully I can help. Cisgender is just a label for people who identify as their assigned birth sex, akin to the term heterosexual for people who like the opposite sex.

    As for pansexual i'm not 100% sure, but from what I've learned its just someone who is attracted to someone based on the person, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
     
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    That's what I thought too. I was like "There are people who like to shag pans? WTF"
     
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    At first, I couldn't tell the difference between pansexual and bisexual.
    From a "never been there / never done that" point of view, I guess I'll never truely and completely understand either of them.
     
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    Middle school, surprisingly, is when I first heard pansexual. It came up when discussing Greece. I just never really thought too much about it then.
     
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    That's what i thought and i would always picture them doing it when someone said to me one time I'm pansexual I said so you like to have sex with pans and then they told me no they like to have sex with people and not pans . I even thought they take the pans on dates too I was very confused about it back then :confused:

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    I still don't fully get the difference between the two but still willing to learn
     
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    It was one or two years ago. I also thought it had something to do with pans... :lol:
     
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    I only discovered that such a thing exists when I came on here, along with demisexual, homoromantic, biromantic and other terms that I've never heard uttered in real life.
     
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    Oh, now I get it, thank you :smilewave
     
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    I thought "wow, what amazing people who see beyond gender and appreciate the 'soul' of the person". That was a pretty long time ago. I still think the same thing.
     
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    I thought...holy crap that's me
     
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    Phew, I'm glad there's a few others who had this cross their minds.

    I also thought at first, it meant they were attracted to 'everything', or whatever they might like, given that 'pan' means everything', as a prefix. So at one point, I thought it included men, women, trans, animals, plants, and everything else, potentially, on a case by case basis.
     
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    Omg I see people who are straight defining it as that I'm not kidding they have been saying pansexual means you like women men cats dogs rock , plants and other objects .
     
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    ppl that wanna fuck the hell outta cookware, huh
     
    #17 asdfghjk, Jun 18, 2014
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    Pancakes.

    I was hungry
     
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    The thought of someone making out with a pan came to mind, lol.

    But I quickly disregarded that as an idea...
     
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    I thought it meant anything turned them on so even if they saw a hole in a doughnut they would be turned on but then I later found out what it really meant
     
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