Pink News explain the difference between Pan and Bi sexual

[PriamFarrl]

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The replies are interesting.

Personally I like pansexual as a concept. I like that people are attracted to others regardless of how they identify. Why shut yourself off from a group?

I still don’t understand how it’s different from bisexual though.

I am an old-school bisexual. I am attracted to men with male genitalia who are fine with the fact that they're men, and women with female genitalia who are fine with the fact that they're women. I don't care about stereotypical gender presentation.

I am not attracted to anyone who has gender dysphoria or thinks they're the opposite sex. I'm sure this makes me a massive bigoted TERF who needs to die in a grease fire, but there we go.

I think it’s a piece of gaslighting to make everyone else id with wanting to jump everyones bones 24/7, along with a need for those who id as demisexual to be special and celebrated.

It seems to be a complicated ID system for users to always have a label on display indicating the degree to which they're up to it. I can't imagine that that's going to work well for the advantage and safety of women and girls.

up to it up for it

I like how there’s a shiny and special new word for “I’m so desperate / horny, I’ll shag anyone, no matter what they look like or what bits they have”.

@QueenSue

Biped = An animal with more than one leg.

No, it means an animal with two legs. Horses aren't bipedal.

According to pink news bi now means more than one.

I would define myself as bisexual. I've been attracted to men and women and to non binary people, and don't care whether or not someone is trans but I rarely go for anyone feminine and I go through phases where I have strong preferences for a particular gender, so I don't think the pansexuality definition of "regardless of gender" applies in my case.

Ok now I'm super confused. I have always been bisexual, attracted to men and women. I am also attracted to people who are trans and non-binary. But I always just considered this to be part of my bisexuality. So what am I now? So confused.

If a bisexual person isn't attracted to NBs or transpeople, that's just preference. Nothing in their sexuality is actually precluding them from being attracted to them. In fact, sometimes they might be attracted to the person without realising they are trans/NB, then go off them. On some forums discussing the tv show Foundation, I read comments from a woman attracted to Salvore. When it was pointed out that she's played by an actor who identifies as NB, the original poster said she went off her.

It's the decision making part of her attraction that turns most of us off NB people. They are subscribed to an ideology we find tiresome/insulting/attention-seeking/all of the above. I'm also not attracted to people with addiction issues, that I know have a history of DV or are very religious. I have felt attraction to a few people and then find out something about them and it's like a switch goes off.

I'm attracted to men and women. But I'm still only actually attracted to a handful of people. The vast majority of people aren't actually attracted to everyone they meet of the sex or sexes they are attracted to. We all have conscious and unconscious reasons and biases. We all have conscious and unconscious preferences. Physical and emotional. Attraction and lack thereof, to people who have gender identities outside of the man/boy or woman/girl does not mean you have a sexuality outside of heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.

@1potato

Ok now I'm super confused. I have always been bisexual, attracted to men and women. I am also attracted to people who are trans and non-binary. But I always just considered this to be part of my bisexuality. So what am I now? So confused.

Pan apparently

@1potato

Ok now I'm super confused. I have always been bisexual, attracted to men and women. I am also attracted to people who are trans and non-binary. But I always just considered this to be part of my bisexuality. So what am I now? So confused.

You’re still bisexual, because the trans and NB people are still either male or female. You’re just not put off by their affectations.

I’m just glad I’m old and married so I don’t need to worry about it.