This just makes no sense to me.
Do you think bisexual people are actually attracted to certain genders rather than looks, personality, etc?
From your own definition, every bi person I've ever talked to was pan.
Yes, I do. Not all, though, and a lot of bisexual people are functionally no different from pansexual people. But, I've seen a lot of girls say they only like masculine men and that feminine men don't interest them, yet at the same time like feminine women. Which, you know, is absolutely fine. Same with bi guys who, say, maybe only are into tomboys but not more feminine women. But for pansexual people, whether someone is a girl, boy, or otherwise makes no difference. They might have a type, but that type carries across all genders.
Honest question about a scenario to see if I'm understanding this right: Could you be a pan straight or pan gay cis person(?) attracted to someone because they are funny, nice eyes, good laugh, etc. And they also happen to be your same or opposite gender, which is immaterial to your attraction? Or does pan basically infer bi? Sorry if this is confusingly worded, I tried to write it clearly. I am having trouble understanding attraction not based on gender.
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying what if, say, a man who always thought he was straight found he is attracted to another guy because he found the other man attractive for some reason or anothr?
I mean, I'm not sure. People apply labels to themselves and they have their reasons for doing so. I'd personally say he's not straight at all then, he just hasn't seen many men he's attracted to before. But in any case, you cannot be straight and pansexual, or homosexual and pansexual.
There is a term used for people who solely have sexual feelings for those they have a relationship with- demisexual- but I've rarely seen it used.
Always considered bi people to be attracted to men and women (both cis and trans), and pan to be attracted to men, women, and everything inbetween (non-binary).
That's previously how I understood it and why I first labeled myself as such, but I've come to find some bi people might not like one of the two 'typical' binary genders, while they do like people of nonbinary genders. But then I saw people using the definition I gave earlier, which is pretty much how I felt anyway, so!
Yeah this is how i see things as well. Someone's gender really has no bearing on whether i'm attracted to them. Pansexuality evokes an entire spectrum for me, although in practice i guess the difference between these two labels isn't very substantial.
Yeah, in practice, there's often not much difference. But as I said earlier, some bi people do have preferences for how they like men to look which don't seem to match how they like women to look, and vice versa and so on. With me? If someone is cute, they're cute, and I'd think they were cute regardless of gender.
This is how I've always seen it. A bi person might say "I like men and women." A pan person might not refer to them as men or women, but people instead. Who knows though. The two are still pretty confusing to me.
Yeah, that's sort of it.
And, don't feel a need to learn everything about human sexuality. Just kinda accept what people consider themselves as long as they ain't hurting no one, and you're good. ' v'
