I think attraction is attraction. I try not to get hung up by traditional gender roles. I don’t know if that makes me pansexual. Maybe just human and not too worried about it ?

I think that's great. I've pondered it myself, but I don't think I am. My sexual preferences seem to be quite binary, and I like manly men and girly girls, for lack of a better explanation. Of course, I consider trans women and trans men to be women and men.

I can see myself being sexually attracted to someone androgynous, but not so sure about genderqueer. I'm just not sexually turned on by say, a bearded crossdresser or bearded woman. I'm also not sexually into gay men. So I think that leaves me at bisexual.

I'm pansexual.

I am not promiscuous and never have been. No one's sexuality determines their thirst.

I am not just waiting for the right guy before settling into heterosexuality.

I fall in love with a person's brain first, meaning I'm also sapiosexual. So, basically, I don't care about gender just them.

I am pan! There are soooo many character traits I find more important than our physical bodies - especially when our physical bodies are constantly changing as we pass through life.

Your description is fantastic. Thank you!

I didn't realize it was so unwell known but I guess growing up in the lgbt+ community my whole life kept me more knowledgeable

The closest I can get to 'Pan' was as a kid. I had a thing for Wendy too.

I don’t think I know any pansexuals so that was an interesting read. You do you! ?

I'm a great believer that there are only four true sexualities, based on whether (other preferences being met) you'd have sex with same, different, neither or both. Everything else, including gender identity, gender presentation, intelligence, weight and height are preferences rather than core sexuality. I'm not sure why we need to make up new sexualities to cover every possible preference. If you can be more than one sexuality (e.g. a sapiosexual heterosexual) then something's not quite right. You don't get gay men profiling as 'bearsexual' or 'twinksexual' even though they might have an exclusive preference for that type of man.

Biphobia has a lot to answer for: the pressures from both gays and straights to 'pick a team.' The automatic assumption that you're promiscuous, greedy and have no standards. I believe a lot of pseudo-sexualities stem from bi people wanting to sidestep the maligned term 'bisexuality' and often at the same time to prove that they have standards (sapio - only intelligent people, demi - only people you feel emotionally close to.) Again, you can have a heterosexual sapiosexual or a homosexual demisexual.

I actually have a bit of a soft spot for pan in that it expresses that sex is irrelevant. A lot of bisexuals treat same and other very differently. Someone who identifies as pan is less likely to be secretive about a same sex relationship than someone who identifies as bi (in my personal experience.)

Also, androsexual and gyno/gynesexual have their uses in expressing an exclusive interest in male or female, without the interested party's sex as a point of reference.

Ultimately, I'm not here to challenge anyone's sincerely held identity. Given that pansexuality/sapiosexuality/demisexuality/pomosexuality are all things with understood meanings, I don't take issue with people using them. I just think it's a shame that those who invented them had to declare them sexualities rather than preferences. 'Sapiophile' and 'demiphile' would be preferable, but I suppose that suffix has rather nasty connotations these days.

Just as long as it stops short of Tallblondeswithbigbreastssexual

It has all become a little confusing to my old ass. I am a sexual being. I see myself as a heterosexual
due my desire for females. Everything the female offers in smell, taste, tactile, sounds, shape and personality stimulates passion, sensuality, and eroticism inside. I associate "making love" with a female. I enjoy the animal side of "just getting off" with a female too. I don't desire "making love" to a male sexual partner. I did have one sexual weekend with a man. Physically, I was gratified but no desire for intimacy, like with a woman. So, does my being able to attain physical gratification mean I'm bisexual? I do not believe so. If anything, I consider myself just plain sexual without the prefixes. My gender is male. Again, gender descriptors today are murky water in my head. I can see traits of my personality being presented both masculine and feminine. I like to be dominant over females but at the same time, if she is to submissive, I can lose interest. A female demanding she get her satisfaction is stimulating. The word "love" gets thrown in and about intertwined with sex and the meaning gets lost. Or at least seems that way to me. My reference "making love" includes sensuality, eroticism, mutual physical pleasure and a strong sense of complete connection in the moment. I believe sex is sex, but if you add wanting to please someone else as much as yourself or more, then you have sex made better by love.
Anyway, I am glad you feel better, now that you represent for pansexuals.

I'm more of a pot sexual.....or maybe a skillet. Still on the fence.

Hi! <3

Interesting! Where are you in the LGBTQ group? I guess B or what?

Whoever you are, be that person. I only like women who supply me with beer. Hee hee.

More of a Potsexual myself... and I'd never call the Kettle anything other than "the Kettle".

I have heard of the phrase before, but not such an elaborate description as the one you provided. I'm pretty strongly hetrosexual myself, but after reading about bonobo chimpanzees I wonder if pan-, bi-, poly- or omninisexuality was more natural among our ancestors and through a process of socialization and "civilization" we developed more rigid binary traditions and identities. Sexual activity generally plays a major role in bonobo society, being used as what some scientists perceive as a greeting, a means of forming social bonds, a means of conflict resolution, and postconflict reconciliation. It happens between both genders, young and old, and in and outside of their communal groups. Check out the Wikipedia article to learn more: [en.wikipedia.org]

Glad you explained - I had a wierd idea of a frying pan and a cube of butter

ive always wondered what this means, but for some reason, never when i have access 2 the internet. add 2 this the fact that i have a terrible memory, and ive not managed 2 figure it out...until now! thank you!

Man this stuff is getting so complicated. I'm going to need a phone app. just to keep it all straight.

I'm a panspermian pantheist pansexual humanist. Now try to say that out loud really fast muah ha ha

I knew someone who sought out Pan people just too touch them
He was arrested for pan handling ......

My daughter is engaged to a pan sexual, I had to ask what that meant.
I wouldn't say pan sexuals are necessarily sapio sexual.

I am becoming more pan like as time passes and I understand my self better. There are escences about people that are the core of their being that I am learning to appreciate, but that are often obscured by conditioned pretences. Some they put on and some I have been encombered with.

I could be one, but can't tell, since I'm also a demisexual and must have over a year of an exclusive relationship before I feel sexual attraction, and so far, only males have been that persistent.

But I am panromantic, although without sexual thoughts.

Honestly, not trying to be flippant but I don't see how it is any different than a fun cool sounding label for a promiscuous bisexual.