• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    My understanding is that bisexuals select all partners from both sexes and pansexuals select all partners from all genders

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      22 hours ago

      That understanding is wrong.

      Bisexual means “homo and hetero sexual”. So, “attracted to my own gender and not-my-own gender”. Thats the classical definition.

      And then people who didn’t understand that, invented the world pansexual to mean exactly the same thing.

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        22 hours ago

        Do you have a resource to confirm what you’re saying? Because homosexual means same sex and heterosexual is opposite sex. Bisexual would be both sexes by that reasoning

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            15 hours ago

            Your snarky comment about better understanding bisexuality and pansexuality does very little for my actual request for resources.

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                15 hours ago

                You’re getting too caught up in the dictionary definition of hetero-. Yes I misspoke about what heterosexual means and was wrong about that, but that’s not the core of my misunderstanding. I’m asking for resources pertaining to the differences between pansexuality and bisexuality. I want resources that dispell my previous notion that bisexuality is about sex whilst pansexuality is about gender.