What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?

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• BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Slightly joking, slightly not: Bi means you’re over 35, Pan means you’re under 35 and Omni means you’re thought about it too much.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I break the mold. 40 years old and I say I am pansexual. The only way I wouldn’t have sex with you is if you had a barbie doll crotch and only because I wouldnt even know what to do with that.

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    • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If they’ve still got a prostate, anus, nipples, neck, or mouth, you might be able to make it work with enough foreplay. I made a woman come from licking her nipples once. Definitely hard-mode though.

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• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  how im aware of it

  bi is a catch all terms of gender

  omni means youre fine with either but you might have preference to one more than the other. because you have a preference, you would not necessarily be “gender blind”

  pan means is like dont even consider gender as a criteria of liking someone. said person can suddenly change genders and it would not affect how they feel about a person. fully gender blind.

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  • atheqtpie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ahhh, ok. i’m definitely omni then.

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• svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pansexuals are simply omnisexuals who don’t understand that it is wrong to use Greek prefixes with Latin root words. /hj

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• Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I like men, women, non-binary peeps, and both directions of trans folk, but I say bisexual because to me it’s all inclusive. Also the best flag.

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Plus you get to be one of the letters in the acronym! Lots of people disagree on which letters to use, but everyone puts a b for bisexual in there.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Speaking of letters, what’s wrong with the term “queer”? Isn’t that inclusive enough?

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Respectfully disagree. That pan flag is just so fucking flashy.

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  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I do love our flag

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• paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Functionally they’re all interchangeable, especially bi/pan. The biggest difference between the three is their flags.

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Go with what sounds cooler to you. As they are really no different, and each person could give you a definition of the slight differences they believe they have.

  I go with bi, because it sounds cooler to me and because it was the term most used when I was younger so I grew into it, but that’s it.

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  • MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I go with bi because I prefer the flag and more people know that

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bisexuals think hot is hot

  Pansexuals either don’t know what pan means or they’re cool with fucking aliens like Jack Harkness

  Omnisexuals are pansexuals that want to feel like special snowflakes

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Your sexual attraction has nothing to do with gender - yours or anyone else’s - but with sex.

  Homosexuality is same sex attraction.

  Bisexual is attraction to both sexes.

  Asexual is attraction to neither sex.

  Heterosexual is attraction to the opposite sex.

  Everything outside of that is really just people trying to give themselves a label to stand out.

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• toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  iirc bisexual means “attracted to 2 or more genders” and pan can be attracted to anyone regardless of gender (“gender blind)”. idk what omni is

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think pan is regardless of gender. Bi is your own and any other gender that is different from your own (essentially what you said), and omni is all the genders (but because of the gender they are, not regardless.)

    its all semantics honestly, but I don’t think many people who identify as any of these would be actually strictly adherent. Sexuality is a spectrum after all.

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• octobob@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Does it matter?

  When I was a teenager, I used to think I was straight. Now in my 30s, I know I only like men. I’ve been with the same partner for 10 years. At some point I guess I stopped being attracted to women or wanting to pursue a romantic relationship with them. It didn’t happen overnight.

  Meeting the right person changed something for me. I wouldn’t get too hung up on labels. Date whoever you want.

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• Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t try to align to an external orientation. A word won’t help you have good relationships. Just get on with loving who you love. The only thing you need to express to someone else is your feelings about them as an individual, and none of those orientation words will help there.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’re all interchangeable, really.

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• Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How are we supposed to know? Shouldn’t you be telling us?

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Everyone I’ve ever met, has their own personal definitions for the distinctions between these terms. As far as I’m concerned, that makes them all somewhat interchangeable.

  Sexuality is a spectrum. Where you fit on that spectrum is as unique as you are, as a person. So, go ahead and choose whatever label you prefer, to describe your position on it. Hell…go ahead and make up your own word for yourself, if that feels like the best way to describe yourself. There are no wrong answers.

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