Miley Cyrus made headlines over the summer ;when she came out as pansexual, thereby introducing ;many people to a term that they may have heard before but don’t entirely understand. But pansexual is just one of many sexual and romantic identities that exist beyond more commonly known and discussed orientations ;like heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual. In fact, some people may not even know that a person can be romantically, as well as sexually, oriented. According to Asexuality.org, romantic attraction ;”is an emotional response that most people often feel that results in a desire for a romantic relationship with the person that the attraction is felt towards.” The site notes that “many asexual people experience romantic attraction even though they…
Miley Cyrus made headlines over the summer ;when she came out as pansexual, thereby introducing ;many people to a term that they may have heard before but don’t entirely understand.
But pansexual is just one of many sexual and romantic identities that exist beyond more commonly known and discussed orientations ;like heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual. In fact, some people may not even know that a person can be romantically, as well as sexually, oriented. According to Asexuality.org, romantic attraction ;”is an emotional response that most people often feel that results in a desire for a romantic relationship with the person that the attraction is felt towards.” The site notes that “many asexual people experience romantic attraction even though they do not feel sexual attraction” and though romantic and sexual orientations often “match,” “it is common to find mixed combinations of romantic and sexual orientations” in the asexual community.
To help shed some more light on this subject matter, here ;are ;12 terms related to sexual and romantic identities that are beginning to receive more attention in the media but that are still regularly absent or erased from conversations currently taking place in popular culture.
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