Pansexuality

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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. The word pansexual is derived from the Greek prefix pan-, meaning "all".

1 Romance, attraction and preferences
2 Pansexual sex
3 Cultural references
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Romance, attraction and preferences

The term pansexual generally is used for a person who does not classify their sexuality with a person's sex, but their gender. They believe that there is a set difference between sex and gender - gender being the socially constructed condition of being male or female, and sex being the biological condition of male or female.

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 [1]. 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 transsexuals, other pansexuals, masculine lesbians, intersexed people, etc.

[edit] 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.

Pansexuals usually consider any sexual act acceptable as long as it is consensual [2]. For some pansexuals, biological sex is a secondary factor, something that will be discovered if and when sexual interaction takes place.

[edit] Cultural references

In an episode of Will & Grace, Karen Walker's pastry chef considers himself pansexual, which was revealed after he had sex with Will, Karen, and Rosario.

In 2006, a controversial article about the different sexual orientations in Stuyvesant High School and how they represent a national trend appeared in New York Magazine.<ref>Alex Morris (2006). The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School. New York Magazine.</ref>

Captain Hero in Drawn Together is perhaps the most comprehensive example of pansexuality in fiction. He displays pedophilia, zoophilia, coprophilia, heterosexuality, homosexuality, necrophilia and technophilia. However, he is most commonly shown to be romantically attracted to his gay male housemate Xandir and occasionally his female housemates Princess Clara and Foxxy Love.