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Pronunciation | pænsɛkʃuæləti |
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Etymology | Ancient Greek: πᾶν, romanized: pan, meaning "all" |
Definition | Sexual or romantic attraction to people regardless of gender |
Classification | Sexual identity |
Parent category | Plurisexuality |
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Flag name | Pansexual pride flag |
Meaning | Pink, yellow and blue respectively representing attraction to women, non-binary people and men |
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Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender identity.[1][2] Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.[3][4]
Pansexuality is sometimes considered a sexual orientation in its own right or, at other times, as a branch of bisexuality (since attraction to all genders falls under the category of attraction to people of the same gender and different genders[5]) to indicate a lack of gender preference.[2][6][7] While pansexual people are open to relationships with people who do not identify as strictly men or women, and pansexuality therefore explicitly rejects the gender binary in terms of the chosen etymology,[2][8] this is by no means a feature which is exclusive to pansexuality and can also be found in broad definitions of homosexuality, bisexuality and the asexual spectrum.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).There are many other identity labels that could fall under the wider umbrella of bisexuality, such as pansexual, omnisexual, biromantic, or fluid (Eisner, 2013).