Sexuality - Asexuality?

[Lady Magpie]

The term "pansexuality" I think is used also to be concious of people who don't necessarily fit in the gender binary (i.e. transgender, transsexual, androgynous, etc) as well. I like this term.

[eowyngirl14]

i thought that pansexual meant attracted tothe person and not either gender specifically, but still not bisexual too...
but i looked it up on the microsoft word dictionsary and if defines pansexual as being 'confused' about ones sexuality.
so maybe its just not updated and the words meaning has changed.

[Lady Magpie]

I'm fairly certain it's not meant to imply confusion. That would not make sense; pan-all, every. Also, being attracted to the person and not the sex would imply bisexuality in a certain sense.

[eowyngirl14]

i dont think pansexuality would really imply bisexuality, but i agree it doesnt mean confusion.
i dont think that pansexuality implies bisexuality because if yur pansexual your attracted to the personality of a person, and not their looks, so it really doesnt matter what genderthey are. (or so i think)
but bisexual people are physically attracted to both men and women. as well as being attracted to perosnality. or atleast thats what i thought...

from an evolutionary veiw point i guess that asexuals are kind of evolutionary flops. because they arent reproducing, so they are not passing on their genes. but from a.. some other point of veiw i guess its *good* that some people have no sexual drive so they wont have kids so this already overpopulated world wont get even more overpopulated... just a thought.

[BeardofPants]

pan·sex·u·al __ _P___Pronunciation Key__(pn-sksh-l)
adj.
Relating to, having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds.

n.
A pansexual person.

[Insidious Rex]

Yet another example of Too Many Freaking Labels.

[Sminty_Smeagol]

I guess pansexuality and bisexuality over lap, as they both involve being capable of being sexually attracted to a person with either set of gender-specific organs, regardless of the 'liker's own gender.

[BeardofPants]

It probably encompasses some other stuff like bestiality, and paedophilia as well, since by definition, a pansexual is open to many forms of sexual attraction.

[Sminty_Smeagol]

If we were going by the dictionary definition I guess pansexuality could include bestiality, but if we go by the little social defintion we have going on here it seems exclusively for humans as it reguires being sexually attracted to the person's personality rather than any physical aspects. Animals don't really have as much of personalities as humans... Don't know...

[eowyngirl14]

Originally posted by Sminty_Smeagol
If we were going by the dictionary definition I guess pansexuality could include bestiality, but if we go by the little social defintion we have going on here it seems exclusively for humans as it reguires being sexually attracted to the person's personality rather than any physical aspects. Animals don't really have as much of personalities as humans... Don't know...

i agree Sminty

[Nurvingiel]

I was reading the excellent essay Sminty linked here, but I really should get off the computer, so I didn't read the whole thing.

From what I understand, asexuality is a lack of sexual desire. This means it's different than being gender neutral, because a gender neutral person could have sexual desire.

Am I right? Or more accurately, am I approaching understanding?

I'll never really understand, not being asexual myself, but at least I could come to correctly understand the concept.

I think that I understand the concept of bisexuality. How you've described it is a lot how I think about it anyway.

[Last Child of Ungoliant]

Originally Posted by Sminty_Smeagol

Hey. We have all heard all these sexuality arguments and things goind around... and I have recently discovered a whole new dimension of sexuality, apparently. Asexuality.

http://www.asexuality.org/info.htm

Has anyone heard of this sexual identification? What are your thoughts? Can it be possible/ natural?

i know of asexuality, the absence of sexual feelings
it is just another sexual variation to me
hitler was, reputedly, asexual

heteroexual - opposite
biexual - both
homoexual - same
aexual - neither