What Does Bisexuality Mean—And How Is It Different From Pansexuality and Other Queer Terms?
Now to me, bisexuality isn’t distinct from sexual fluidity. To Diamond, it is. We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this one. As Diamond told, fluidity connotes a change over time. “Someone who’s fluid, they aren’t necessarily going to consistently experience attraction for both women and men,” Diamond explained. “There may be times in their life that they are more aware of attraction toward one gender, and times in their life when they’re attracted to the other gender.
Now again, you’ll notice this is 100 percent encompassed by the word bisexual, however, in my experience the men who claim the heteroflexible label are typically more masculine and have no desire to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. So for them, it doesn’t make sense to claim a bisexual identity. While I respect their choice to label themselves however they see fit, I can’t help but wonder what would happen if these heteroflexible men lived in a world without homophobia.
While this obviously isn’t true, all these negative associations with the word impact whether or not many folks decide to embrace it. I couldn’t tell you the number of people I’ve met who like multiple genders but don’t want to label themselves as bi because “There’s just something I don’t like about the word bisexual.
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