Sexuality Poll

Not at all?

Pansexual is the attraction to a wide variety of people, regardless of their gender identity, or biological sex. Whereas Demisexuality is more or less an attraction to people who you know intimately as a person before you enter a sexual relationship with.

Basically, a pansexual person would be open to a one-night stand with a stranger/would be open to "strange" sex, a Demisexual person would not.

I'm sure a Demisexual person could have pansexual qualities (ie. will enter a relationship with any identity/gender if they are known well enough beforehand.) But the two terms aren't interchangeable at all.

 

---------- Post added 14th Jul 2015 at 09:02 PM ----------

I hadn't heard of homoflexibility before and now that I did some research... I wouldn't rule it out.

 

For the first one, not really. Pansexuals are attracted to all genders and can be attracted to strangers or minor friends. Demisexuals on the other hand may or may not only have an exclusive gender attraction (such as straight or gay demis) and will not ever, be attracted to people they don't know for a longer timespan.

Well, I don't think this definition is accurate either. Demisexuals can technically be aromantic (never have romantic interest in anyone ever) but are still only attracted to a "close bond". Basically this means that aromantic demisexuals will seek out friends with benefits but not one night stands. Non-demisexuals can also only want to wait until someone they really love, but the difference is that they can still be attracted to people, while demisexuals are 99.99% asexual in orientation with small exceptions. It's basically the asexual term for "Heteroflexible".

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What being an lesbian demisexual means to me is that I am only attracted to women, never to men. However, I am also not attracted to women I have not known for at least 2 years or more (usually 6 or more in my case tho). I can never experience celeb crushes, and I can never go on dates with people that involve a "spark" or any sense of attraction which usually hurts the other person. I usually get hurt when I have a crush too because by the time attraction finally happens for me, the person and I have become so close that I'm a sister to them and they can't imagine it anymore. And being demi means that when you tell your friends that you're a lesbian and they talk about cute girls, you are confused and even turned-off because "cute girls" don't even exist to you and you have no clue how to recognize it.

In other words, true demisexuality is very rare and it sucks to have it since it makes partnerships pretty impossible. However, I do not identify as a demi person because It's a complicated label and most people don't know what it means. I also don't like identifying as a lesbian sometimes because of people assuming that I'm attracted to most women (which I'm not) or asexual since my eventual sexual attraction can pop up. Labels suck, really!

 

Bisexual, with a preference for men.

 

See avatar for detailed orientation.

---------- Post added 15th Jul 2015 at 09:55 PM ----------

^this^ only from a pan-romantic perspective.

 

I am 100% homosexual. I am a 6 on the Kinsey scale. I've heard many claim that you cannot be 100%, but I am a living example of such a person. Since I was a young kid beginning puberty, I have never felt attraction to any sex other than the male one.

I have been reading more about the demi-sexual label. While this one interests me (as a person with a low sex drive), I don't use it myself. I'm simply a homosexual with a low sex drive (comparatively). I could never see having sex outside of a relationship, but I don't see a reason to amend my label for this reason. It doesn't affective the gender whom I'm attracted to.

 

I am streght, meaning I like woman, but I am transgender female.

 

Gynasexual is most accurate for me, there's wiggle room though~

 

Pansexual, demisexual, and queer \(._.)/

 

gay as far as i can currently tell

 

Essentially gay so I'll go with that. No idea what some of the lower terms mean :|

 

Homofliexble seems to fit me best.

 

I'm Bi all the Way baby *laughs*

 

I'm a heteroromantic asexual, which one do I pick?

 

I didn't see awesomesexual in the poll so I just voted lesbian.

 

Asexual, akoiromantic haha :'D

 

I'm a homoflexible-homoremantic genderfluid gynasexual queer, and proud.

 

I voted gay and bisexual as I don't consider myself 100% gay, more like 80%.

Also, I hate to be that guy but what does gynasexual mean?

 

"Gyno" Usually means either woman, female, or things relating to the female reproductive system so the definition relates to that. I see it used for three different things:

1) Exclusive attraction to women as used by people who identify as a non-binary gender. This term was invented because "straight" and "gay" do not accurately match their gender identity and not all non-binary people are bi.

2) Exclusive attraction to vaginas. On Tumblr this is commonly used as a slur against people who are only interested in cis women or both cis women and trans men since they feel that "lesbian" (or straight male) is not inclusive enough.

3) Exclusive attraction to femininity. In other words a bisexual person who is only attracted to girly girls and fem crossdressing boys, but uses the term to differentiate their preferences (This one is rare though)

The first definition is the most popular though

 

I voted Pansexual.