Watch This: What Pansexual People Want You to Know
(Photo Credits: Screengrab from Queer Vision Facebook)
Are you pansexual? More importantly, do you know what pansexual means?
If your answer is no, BuzzFeed’s Queer Vision released a video explaining what pansexuality is all about. During the interview, the interviewees revealed that the biggest misconception, they say, is that pansexuals are deemed to be attracted to a saucepan, pandas, and bread among others. But no, they’re not. Take a look at the interview below.
Some viewers on Facebook admitted they don’t understand what pansexuality means but there were netizens who took the time to explain it. One of the commenters lamented that when she came out pansexual to her aunt, she was told, “You’re actually bi. Pans and bi are the same thing. It’s just a fancier word.” Apparently it’s a sentiment that’s shared by many others who came out to their family and friends as well. One commenter said that for ease of explanation, she just describes pansexuality simply as “hearts not parts. I don’t care what you got in your pants, I just care for your personality and if you’re a good person or not.”
What is pansexuality, you ask?
Well, according to Morandini and colleagues as cited in Psychology Today (2017), “Pansexual is often conceptualized as a label that denotes sexual or romantic attraction to people regardless of their gender expression (masculinity or femininity), gender identity, or biological sex.” Its prefix pan- “comes from the Ancient Greek word for “all, every,” πᾶν; omni- comes from the Latin word for “all,” omnis.” They say that the term pansexuality was first coined by Sigmund Freud in the early-to-mid 1900s while he was working on the Psychoanalytic Theory. His definition of pansexuality however, is different from how it is defined today. For more information on pansexuality, common misconceptions, how it is different to bisexuality and other sexual orientations etc., click here.
Celebrities who identify as pansexual include actress and singer-songwriter Janelle Monáe; lead vocalist of Panic! At the Disco Brendon Urie; singer-songwriter Sia; and singer-songwriter, and actress Miley Cyrus to name a few.
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There’s no such thing. It’s totally a trendy mindset, a failure to commit. Biology is the foundation of sex and relationships, and gender is how it is expressed. What is going on is the wanton spread of an unreal approach to living, a dishonesty and self-destructiveness, as evinced by his tattoo. No, you cannot mutilate your body, you cannot do whatever you want or live however you want. That is not reality. This is the result of bad parenting, and overly entitled children.
After reading this article, I’m still confused on the difference between bi and pan. They both love and are attracted to the person, not the gender. Either way, it doesn’t mean the person is any lesser for being what they are.
False. Bi means attracted to two sexes. Pan isnt based on sexual attraction.
“My sexuality has nothing to do with sex.” How tedious.
Yet both claim to love hearts instead of parts. Gender expression shouldn’t matter if you claim to like all the parts, making the foundation of “pan” erroneous.
Lord, what’ll happen next? First, it was the feet people and now it’s the cookware crowd?
Pansexuality has been around for several decades, its not new by any means, most people were just ignorant of its existence
REALLY?
Next you’ll be telling us that some men actually like to have sex with other men. Stop being ridiculous.
Another case-study article demonstrating that an affluent and narcissistic few continue to set the social agenda for the low-wage many, even here, to reinforce their position. Think Human Rights Watch professional expounding on their pan sexuality with the low-wage support staff on their way to the Lexus in the assigned spot in the parking garage just as the staffer heads to the Metro to their studio in Anacostia or Southeast while the pan sexual reads the Rolex to make sure they are not late at their house in Potomac for the photo shoot with the latest A-list celebrity just chosen for the Board now that another celebrity has-been is dropped for the new one. You got it. An insular, overbearing, and nauseating economic aristocracy.
You should write that screenplay!
WHAT the hell does one’s own personal definition of ‘sexuality’ have to do with Socio-Economic Status? It would be like me saying: You don’t SOUND rich, and yet you wreak of pomposity
Why can’t we all be respectful of each other sexualy .
I know!
YOU are a man … HE is a bisexual nymphomaniac (thought you fuck everything too), and you call HIM a douche? Tell me again who is INTOLERANT who is a BULLY?
You’re right, don’t like writing like that, in fact probably nobody LIKES being called out like that, it would be so great if everyone here thought before they posted, made a significant point, and avoided all the unnecessary name calling and disrespect for the human in the story.
Exactly my thoughts. Those who are “against” pansexuality, are getting double fisted behind closed doors….
I think everybody should mind their own business and decide who the fuck they want to be, ok Matt?
So the Millennium’s decided Bisexual wasn’t good enough they needed to confuse people and say they were PAN SEXUAL. Lol. Let’s just give society more reasons to bash gays. Lol what’s next???
Its been a thing for well over a decade or 2 now, get over yourself because millennials were two young when it gained hype. You’re just late to this party
Doesn’t this mean “The Community” should have a referendum to add “P” to “LGBTQ”?
A referendum to have freedom from being silenced because someone doesn’t have the politically correct opinion is needed first.
Chicken is chicken even if we call it Frango. A new way to keep the attention on me. Your using the wrong terminology – let me be the person who educates you. I’m the important person who has it all right – I play word games it help me feel superior and keeps the attention on me .
Can’t handle being called BI so they have to come up w/ some other f’n lame title.
That guy is cute but I am not sure how I feel about the word Pansexual. It just seems like a more “woke” bisexual to me. A lot of these new gender identities seem to be based on nothing more than vague indescribable feelings and tired gender stereotypes but too each their own.
It means not being able to make up your mind and just hiding behind a fancy name. I will grant you that women can be switch hitters. But I’ve never met a man that is bi. Men marry women, then sneak off and sleep with men. I call that being selfish. Why would you lead people on like that? I say to these pansexuals, pick a lane and stick with it.
Who hurt you? its possible to like both and be faithful. You just know crappy people lol ive always been faithful no matter who i date and never had an urge to cheat because my attraction is to the person, not their genitalia.
What about dip-shit-sexual ? Jesus fucking Christ . Too many weird fuckers in the world .
Funny, they said the same about regular gay men at one point as they electrocuted them to try and make em straight again. Funny how people gain their own rights to express themselves and then turn on others who want the same. The world isnt black n white. Pansexual has been included for over a decade now. N we arent forcing our way in and trying to manipulate lgbt culture like pedos and beastiality. So get tf over yourself
I don’t know if this applies to pansexual, however I like women, but not really attracted to them sexually. Used to be somewhat, however I find more attraction to men, as us men seem to know what turns each other on, and there is no worry about women’s emotions, and having to wine and dine them just to get into their underwear. Women want expensive perfumes, clothes, flowers, and many want to meet men just to have children. Then the man gets caught with raising them, or child support. Why go through all that, just to have fun sexual relief. Sex is to be enjoyed, and is a great escape, especially for men. It takes women forever to get into the sexual mood. Us men however can get naked, pull out your cock, suck and fuck, on a moments notice, just to have some sexual fun and relief without all the hoopla that goes along with women.
And yet again, everybody gets a ribbon!
Seriously? Bi people love hearts not parts too so pan people are bi. End of story. The problem with these entitled “pillars of society” is that they can’t bear to identify with sex because they think it’s dirty and they are so pure of innocent love. Screw that. So you like the person’s heart? Great but the fact that you’ll touch any gender’s “parts”, and the fact that there are only two kinds of “parts” available means……guess it….YOU. ARE. BISEXUAL. Get over yourselves grow up and move on with your lives. There are more important things to ponder in your lives than this.
This literally took the words right out of my mouth!
Wrong, whereas bi people can date male or female. Pan, can attract to anyone, male, female, trans, intersex, etc
We are products of an abandoned society that want to be special to someone. To be stand out from society to be noticed. I am here! Love yourself first and then true love and friendships will come. Ask yourself, what am I offering in this friendship, lovers, relationships? Learn to give back more and not take so much….all of these people seem to be greedy and taking…….what are they giving back? I heard zero….its all about ME….BORING LIVES
Thank all the therapists that our universities cranked out because they washed out of other degrees. Yes, you’re special. You’re an axe murder? It really isn’t your fault…you were conditioned to be this way. It never ends. People are people no matter what you call them. I’m the same way by the three dozen gender choices I see everywhere now. You’re either a man or a woman, gay, straight, or somewhere in between. Wait, it’s not gay if the girlfriends are somewhere in the house while we do it? Yea, it’s still gay. You just happen to like both ends of the same stick. I don’t have anything against the ones that are somewhere in between, but we don’t need fifteen different names for the same thing.
I see this whole thing as a label making device, but because, for some reason we deplore labels about ourselves. It is ok for other cultures/races/what ever, to make claims that identify themselves to their exclusive clubs BUT GOD FORBID if we started taking a bold leap and join the Human Race? And we have simple rules.
1) Clean up your own messes, you can hire, or beg for help to get the work done.
2) Respect others as you would respect yourself.
In the human race if you have two arms, two legs. (with exceptions for medical oddities) You qualify.
Pansexuals are sexually attracted to everyone regardless of everyone’s orientation. So they would have sex with gay men, and Lesbians, and Queers, and Transexuals, and Bisexuals, and men who identify as women, and women who identify as men, and cross dressers. And also with Lesbians who identify as straight women, and gay guys who identify as straight men. And of course straight men and straight women. And straight guys who identify as Lesbians and straight women who identify as gay guys.
I’ve probably left out a few. Probably more, but this is how it “Pans out”, right?
Another sign that the narcissistic and self-absorbed affluent few continue to dominate, and need to dominate, the social discourse of an entire society while the many continue to suffer low-wages. Diminished opportunities, and isolation in the communities where they work to serve, and sometimes pathetically try to emulate, the few who employ them. Think Human Rights Foundation professionals talking to their sweat shop support staff about the travails of their professional pan sexuality on the way to the garage to pick up the Lexus to drive to Potomac for a photo shoot with the latest A-list celebrity on the Board while the staffer is heading to the Metro to commute to their studio in Anacostia or the Southeast. That’s what this is about. Insular aristocrats.
You’re taking pop-magazine Psychology Today as some kind of authoritative source? Really??
Pansexual appears to be nothing more than a bisexual who wants a new fancy title.
Wow, it seems as if it is, just another kind of bi-, to me as well…
No such thing. You don’t get to say you’re bi or pan and “hearts not parts” then go on about how you’re only attracted to heteronormative situations that would obviously best appeal to closet cases.
Both say hearts not parts, so there’s no logical use for a label who’s entire basis for distinction is erroneous. Gender expressions don’t matter if you claim to love all the parts, logic fail #2 for pan.
I don’t get to determine your sexuality but you quite simply aren’t pan or bi if it’s “only for…”
Main problems I see with identity labels are the under use of the actually quite common condition of “hetero flexible” and mistaken inclusion of emotional attractions to your sexuality – SEXuality, as in “who you would have sex with.”