So there are a bunch of various labels, but I was wondering what they all meant. What is the difference between somebody who is Pansexual and Bisexual? Asexual? What is that? Please keep this thread positive, though. :eusa_naug
Pansexuality involves an attraction regardless of sex or gender, while Bisexual is a sexual attraction to both males and females (it doesn't have to be equal). A bisexual, in other words, would recognize sex and quite possible have preferences. To a pansexual, physical sex doesn't matter so much for that same level of attraction. While a pansexual may have preferences, they are often not so focused on physical sex or personal gender identification (masculine, feminine, and all others) Asexuals have no sexual attraction towards a person, or may not profess any emotional attractions, but may still be 'heteroromantic' or 'homoromantic' and hold strictly romantic (emotional 'togetherness') or aesthetic (physical) attractions. Note: It's important to remember in 'labeling' that they often do mean different things to different people, and the 'fine line' doesn't lie with a dictionary but with self-identification. Sexuality is fluid and can easily come in all ranges and sizes. As the system gets more complex, there are everything to labels of gender orientation in descriptions.
I find it frustrating that we have to explain and label one another and ourselves anyways... Anyone else feel this way?
Do I have to explain the difference between non-orientation and orientation? Pomosexual is a non-orientation because it reveals no information about preferences to sexes. Yes, it's a label, but rejects sexual orientation labels only. It is a label that rejects only sexual orientation labels, but not labels themselves. --------- Here, I submitted this to urban dictionary. A portmanteau of pomo, short for postmodernism, and sexual, used as a noun—a person who rejects/avoids or does not identify as categorizations of sexual orientations (e.g., heterosexual and homosexual, which define people by relative conceptualizations of their sexual preferences and their direction of attraction) as a form of identity—and as an adjective, referring to such a person or to the philosophy of pomosexuality . Elisa: What's your sexual orientation, john? John: I do not identify as any sexual orientations labels. Elisa: But, everyone is either pan/omni , bi, straight, gay, or an asexual. John: None of them works for me and I refuse to use a label to define my sexual preference. I am a pomosexual. --------- To make it easier to understand, John refuses to uses labels that defines sexual preferences, but he does not refuse labels.
