Pansexuality

Pansexuality is the attraction to all genders and regardless of gender or sex. Pansexuals are gender-blind in their attraction, which means that gender doesn't factor into their attraction to others, whereas it may for other sexualities. Not to be confused with omnisexuality, which is similar but takes gender into account in terms of attraction.

The Flag
The pansexual flag has a blue line at the bottom, pink line on the top, and yellow line in the middle. The blue line (on the bottom) represents men. The yellow line (in the middle) represents non-binary people. The pink line (at the top) represents women. The pansexual flag was first created in the 2010s.

Attraction
Pansexuality is an attraction to all genders/gender identities, or an attraction to others regardless of gender. Gender is unimportant to pansexuals when it comes to attraction, and they do not take one's gender into account when attracted to someone.

Pansexuals are attracted to every gender, as stated above, not because of sex or gender. It's implied that most who identify as pansexual are attracted to their partner or crush because of personality, rather than their sex or gender, although this is not to say that non-pansexual people can't be attracted to someone for their personality rather than their appearance, because they definitely can too.

Terminology
The word "pansexual" came from "pansexualism" which was coined by Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist. Pansexualism is the idea that "the sex instinct plays the primary part in all human activity, mental and physical." Of course, this idea is very flawed, especially considering the fact that it invalidates asexual people, as well as people who for whatever reason don't find sex interesting or don't feel the need to have sex in order to feel complete.

It is important to note that pansexualism and pansexuality are very different. Pansexuality is an orientation, whereas pansexualism is simply a hypothesis made by a neurologist.

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