Meaning of pansexual | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Sexually attracted to people regardless of gender.
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2. Sexually attracted to everyone.
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3. Welcoming people of all sexual orientations.
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4. Pertaining to the psychological theory of pansexualism.
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Equivalents

Examples

“Karen and Carlos are definitely pansexual people who have⟳ paired off to have⟳ this child, and this seems real and good to them now. When I had been with Karen, she had floated through several gay relationships, […] all my friends had been what I would call⟳ pansexual, avoiding the older term bisexual, which is meaningless when you can count⟳ more than two sexes.”

“Obviously many women who answered the survey considered themselves bisexual in the past no longer do. Perceiving oneself as bisexual was often a stage⟳ of transition between heterosexuality and homosexuality. But others did consider⟳ and still consider⟳ themselves bisexual. Here are some stories of bisexual or pansexual women and some comments about [...]”

“As a writer/sexologist, he argues that people are neither homosexual nor heterosexual but pansexual.”

“CUMMING: Bisexual, I suppose⟳... No, pansexual. Some bloke in a newspaper called me a "frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium." I thought that was fabulous.”

“To the end⟳ he [Walt Whitman] denied that he was homosexual; his writings are pansexual, finding carnal ripeness in the soul, in nature, as well as in men and women.”

“We like⟳ to attend⟳ pansexual group sex parties, which means that attendees may identify⟳ as gay or lesbian or bisexual or hetero or transgendered, but are generally comfortable and happy to play⟳ side-by-side with people whose desires may be entirely different than their own⟳.”

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