The distinction I commonly hear locally to me: - Bisexual = two or more, but not necessarily all or equally - Pansexual = all genders, equally - Omnisexual = all genders, but not equally - Polysexual = kind of outdated but makes the distinction of more than two, less than all But honestly you can identify however the hell you want to describe yourself. Just because myself and the other nerds come up with descriptions/distinctions doesn’t mean we’re gonna prescribe labels unprompted or be jerks

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as a pan person, the most common definition i’ve seen the pan community use is attraction to people regardless of gender. it’s not that the level of attraction to every gender is the exact same, it’s more that idgaf about a potential romantic/sexual partner’s gender and that does not affect my likelihood of being attracted to someone.

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If they bite you, they’re bisexual. If you bite them, they’re pansexual. Bisexual is the name of the doctor. Pansexual is the name of the creation. So on and so forth.

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This is me, I just figured out the difference after being out as bi for 6 years 😭 apparently when you’re pan you feel the same for all genders. I thought maybe I was pan but I do feel different attraction for men vs women and masculinity vs femininity

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pansexuals blossom again after a year whereas bisexuals need to be replanted

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ok guys here’s my 2¢: people trying to come up with an inherent difference are shooting themselves in the foot bc they’re straight up just asking the wrong question. We have two words, not bc we have two different species, but because the words were coined in different spaces at different times in different socio-cultural-political contexts. It is impossible to come up with an identity answer for a historical question. But people don’t realize it IS a historical question, so there’s no winning.

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