What is the difference between pansexuality, polysexuality and bisexuality?
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Pansexuality is attraction of all genders, bisexuality is attraction of males and females and polysexuals are difficult to explain. They're different than pansexual in a way that they won't date any gender identity but different from bisexuals as they date more than male and female
Pansexuality is basically liking someone for who they are like if they are bisexual, or transgendered or anything really, polysexuality is incorporating many different sexualities, like you have to identify yourself as this because this has to be something you feel like you and bisexuality is liking both sexes.
Polysexuality is people who are sexually attracted to more than one gender or sex,pansexuality is people who attracted to any sexuality and bisexuality is people who like boys and girls only,but many people think bisexuality has something to do with threesome,but it's not true.
Anonymous
October 25th, 2015 8:17pm
Pansexual means you are attracted to people of all genders. Bisexual means attracted to males and females. Both pansexual and bisexual fit under the umbrella of polysexuality, attraction to mutiple genders.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2015 2:40am
Pansexual means that you like guys, girls, and other. Polysexuality means the same thing. Bisexuality means that you like guys and girls.
Anonymous
October 28th, 2015 3:58am
Pansexuality is the attraction to all genders
Polysexuality is the need to be in a relationship with more than one person
Bisexuality is being attracted to male and female
Anonymous
October 29th, 2015 4:13am
The terms "pansexual" and "bisexual" are not mutually exclusive. Pansexuality is inclusive of bisexuality (attraction to both males and females) but additionally includes attraction to other genders and sexes such as those identifying as transgender, genderqueer, bigender, intersex, or genderfuck.[3] In this sense, it necessarily rejects the concept of a gender binary, which some bisexuals may not reject. To this end, pansexuality as a concept has been criticized as a "means to skip the binaries and essentialism of 'bi'."[4]
Bisexuality and Pansexuality are both types of polysexuality- which is defined as an attraction to more than one gender- bisexuality is when a person is attracted to male and female people and pansexuality is when a person loves another, despite their gender or bodily form.
Anonymous
October 29th, 2015 5:33pm
You're bisexual when you're attracted by girls and also by man. You're pansexual when you dont really care by how you are attracted. You dont identifie the human by his gender.
Pan = all
Poly = many
Bi = two.
The suffix makes it easy enough to work out, I think. I don't know much about the intraspecifics.
Bisexual is the attraction to only two genders (male and female). Pansexual is the attraction to all genders where polysexual is the attraction to multiple or many genders
As far as I know, pansexuality is attraction to all genders, polysexuality is attraction to many genders but not necessarily all, and bisexuality is attraction to only two genders (your own and one other).
Anonymous
October 30th, 2015 4:21pm
Pansexuality - when you find any gender attractive
Polysexuality - when you find multiple genders attractive
Bisexuality - when you find two genders attractive
Anonymous
October 31st, 2015 10:30am
pansexuality is basically being open/attracted to all genders, while polysexuality is attraction toward multiple genders, not necessarily encompassing all genders. bisexuality on the other hand, is attraction towards the two sexes, male and female.
Anonymous
November 4th, 2015 2:28am
Pansexuality is having or being able to have a sexual attraction to all genders/sexes. Polysexuality is having or being sexually attracted to multiple but not all genders/sexes. Bisexuality is having or being sexually attracted to two genders/sexes.
Pansexuality means to be attracted to someone regardless of gender, bisexuality is an attraction to both men and women, polysexual just means a person is attracted to more than one gender, so pansexuality and bisexuality both fit under this category.
Pansexuality is attraction to all genders indiscriminately, polysexuality is attraction to multiple genders but not all, and bisexuality is attraction to two genders (most commonly men and women).
Pansexuality is loving someone and not taking who they are into consideration, bisexuality usually limits who they're attracted to. Polysexuality is taking consideration in multiple genders.
Pansexuality is sexual attraction, romantic love, or emotional attraction toward people of any sex or gender identity. Polysexuality is the attraction to multiple genders or sexes. Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior toward both males and females.
Anonymous
November 5th, 2015 7:58pm
Pansexual is not caring about the gender but the personality. Bisexual is liking men and women. Polysexual is loving every gender. Pan and poly are different because pan is about loving the person for personality. Poly is loving them.
Pansexuality: The attraction to the personality, not the gender. This typically means they are open to a partner of any gender, but not always.
Polysexuality: The attraction to multiple, but not necessarily all, genders.
Bisexuality: The attraction to the two defined genders: male and female. This TYPICALLY does not include genderqueer, questioning, non-binary, etc.
Anonymous
November 6th, 2015 6:48pm
pansexuality; not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender or gender identity.
polysexuality: involving characterised by different sexualities, sexually attracted to more than one gender.
bisexuality: romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behaviour toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes termed pansexuality.
Bi is where you like guys n girls. Pan...my understanding is...you like a person based on personality. It doesnt matter their gender, race, sexuality, none of that. So it can be same sex, opposite, they can be straight, bi, gay, trans its only based on personality.
Poly...not sure
That's a very good question. Sexual orientation has become very confusing as of late, because this era has changed sexual freedoms dramatically, with so allowing for the LGBT+ community to both explore and openly express its ambiguity. No longer is there merely "straight or gay." Now, there are several dozen flavors. Regarding the before-mentioned sexualities, Nonbinary.org's wiki described them as such:
* Pansexuality: an attraction (romantic, sexual, or emotional) toward people of any sex or gender identity
* Polysexuality: an attraction to multiple sexes and gender
* Bisexuality: an attraction (romantic, sexual, or behavioral) toward both males and females
Anonymous
November 11th, 2015 11:43am
Pansexuality is the liking of ALL genders. Polysexuality is the liking of some genders. Bisexuality is the liking of two genders (male and female)
Bisexuals: People who are attracted to two or more genders.
Pansexuals: People who are attracted to all genders.
Polysexuals: People who are attracted to multiple but not necessarily all genders.
Pan-sexuality literally refers to being sexually attracted to ALL different genders.
Polysexuality refers to being sexually attracted to MANY different genders.
Bisexuality refers to being sexually attracted to BOTH genders (i.e male and female)
Anonymous
November 13th, 2015 3:45am
Pansexuality is pretty much gender blind. They can be boy girl transgender who cares?! Bisexual is only boys and girls. Poly is more than one gender.
A Pansexual likes the personality of the individual, independently of the gender. A Polysexual likes any kinds of gender. And a Bisexual likes man or woman
Pansexuality is when one experiences sexual attraction to people of all genders. (Gender is not a factor that matters to them in the way of sexual attraction.) Polysexuality is in which one experiences sexual attraction to some genders, but not all genders. (Usually, three or more genders.) Bisexuality is in which one experiences sexual attraction to two genders.
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