Pansexuality, Bisexuality, Omnisexuality, And Anthrosexual

While on this blog I tend to focus more on the pangender side to me, it seems every time I go on the internet-especially Tumblr-it seems someone out there is confusing panseuxality with an other sexual orientation or spewing discrimination and determining certain sexualities even though they are not that sexuality. Being a panromantic pansexual I often find myself at the bit of this false myths and confusing and having to tell people how pansexual is not the same as bisexual. Scrolling though Tumblr I also saw that omnisexual and anthrosexual were considered another term for pansexual or bisexual too.

Personally I think its rude and insulting to speak on behalf of someone else's sexuality. Yes there are some people who use certain terms interchangeably but that does not equal the same as everyone nor does it equal the same for everyone nor does it mean the terms are the same. Human sexuality is fluid and often some people don't feel that they are just one term.  Someone's sexual orientation is part of their identity, its a personal thing that should not be taken away or dismissed just because someone doesn't like it. That's discrimination and very prejudice. You have no right what so ever to determine someone else' sexuality or how it works. 

Bisexuality, pansexuality, omnisexuality, and anthrosexuality are all different and beautiful sexual orientations but because they are polysexual, many monosexual people will fire their canons at them and rip them apart. They fall victim to attack, to be thrown around not just by heterosexuals and homosexuals but by other polysexuals as well. I am always finding biphobic pansexuals and panphobic bisexuals on the internet. Everyone is attacking each other when really its all very simple. 

Let's start with pansexuality. As a pansexual who does not use the terms bisexual or omnisexual interchangeably, my first demand is that people stop calling me confused or tell me how they are the same thing. When they are not. Pansexuality is the sexual attraction or sexual desire towards people regardless of gender or sex. That is way some pansexuals, myself included, use the term gender-blind. While a person's gender identity should never be ignored, the simple fact is that a pansexual will not differ from genders. Pansexuals don't act differently in a relationship with their partner. They are the same in a relationship with a feminine or masculine person. A good sense, pansexuality is sexual attraction to the personality, just as sapiosexual is sexual attraction to the intelligence and demisexual is sexual attraction to the emotional connection. 

Bisexuality is the sexual attraction towards the same sex or opposite sex. I use the term sex not gender because bisexual people do often date outside the gender binary. Sex and gender are hardly ever the same thing. Even heterosexual or homosexual people date outside their gender or even normal preferred sex. A cisgender straight man can date a transgender straight woman who has not undergo a sex charge and still be straight even though that woman has a penis she is still a woman. In reality bisexuality refers to more then just a sexual attraction towards the same sex or opposite sex but towards the same gender or other genders. This does include non-binary people.

Omnisexual is the sexual attraction to all sexes and genders. This is different from pansexual, even though omni and pan both mean all. Omnisexual is all and many omnisexuals I have spoken do differ in relationships. All sexes include penis, vagina, intersex or someone who has had genitalia nullification surgery done. An omnisexual has sexual attraction to those on the gender binary and those who are simply non-binary. While some use the terms interchangeably, this does not equal omnisexuality and pansexuality as the same.

Anthrosexual is the sexual attraction to all three sexes. This does again does not mean that an anthrosexual person does not date someone who has nullification surgery, lots of people date outside their gender or sex. Sexuality is more fluid. For description purposes only an anthrosexual is sexually attraction to intersex genitalia, male genitalia and female genitalia.   

I personally don't understand how people can be so narrow minded to argue or dismiss someone's sexual orientation. Even re-reading over my own post I can not for the life of me figure out how people can confuse pansexuality, bisexuality, omnisexuality and anthrosexuality. People who identify as pan, bi, omni and anthro face all sorts of bullying and harassing comments. Often accused of discriminating for not labeling as something else and have people like Dan Savage telling them their just half out of the closet. There is a monosexual bias in our everyday society.

I am not bisexual, I am not omnisexual, and I am not anthrosexual. I am pansexual, its really that simple. Nobody should try and dictate someone's sexual orientation. Some people are attracted to more then one gender or sex, it's really that simple. Sexuality is fluid and no term means what it did when it was created in the 19th century. It's narrow mindness and discrimination that tell us otherwise as well as heterosexual and homosexual are the only way to go. 

I support all the sexual orientations, I support people's right to have sexual attraction to whoever, I support people's right to freedom. Do not decide how someone's sexuality can be. Do not discriminate against someone's sexuality to benefit your own. This is child's play and I can not believe fully grown adults have a hard time gasping this concept, someone else' sex life should be no concern of yours.