Pansexual
Full definition of pansexual
Adjective
pansexual
- Sexually attracted or open to all people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
- Sexually attracted to everyone.
- Welcoming people of all sexual orientations.
- 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.
Derived terms
Noun
pansexual
(plural pansexuals)- Someone who is attracted to all types of people regardless of gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Usage notes
Both pansexual and omnisexual are potentially controversial terms, in that they denote sexuality beyond what is communicated by bisexual. To audiences who think of gender as only "male" or "female", the terms may logically equate beyond "all gender identities" to "everyone and everything", including zoophilia. Even disregarding zoophilia, some people believe anything beyond bisexual redundant, as bisexual may already logically include everyone.
Furthermore, some people translate pan- and omni- differently, leading to arguments that one term means "many" and the other means "all", which may lead to claims that one is proper (not sexually exclusive to any human gender identity) and the other is improper and potentially insinuative of zoophilia.