Pansexuality
Pansexuality or omnisexuality is a sexual orientation in which people do not pre-select their sex or gender identity in their desires . The term pansexuality is derived from the Greek prefix pan (total, comprehensive, everything). In the scientific literature, the term is not defined and used uniformly.
Comparison with bisexual and polysexuality
A pansexual person is able to have sexual or romantic feelings for people of all gender identities. Bisexual people, on the other hand, only refer to two genders, mostly their own gender on one side and a different gender on the other. The syllable poly from polysexuality comes from the Greek and means 'many'. Accordingly, polysexuals feel drawn to more than two gender identities, but not necessarily to all.
Web links
- Lea Schütze: Pansexuality . In: Gender Glossary . Leipzig / Munich 2013, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 15-qucosa-220909 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - Fourth Edition. Retrieved on February 9, 2007 from Dictionary.com website.
- ^ Pansexuality . In: SexInfo Online . University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ↑ Donald E. Tarver II: Transgender Mental Health . The Intersection of Race, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity. In: Billy E. Jones, Marjorie J. Hill (Eds.): Review of Psychiatrie: Mental health issues in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities . tape 21 , Issue 4. American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, DC 2002, ISBN 1-58562-069-6 , Chapter 5, pp. 95 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).