Concepts on Sexual Orientation:
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Omnisexual
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It is a category that belongs to sexual orientation. An omnisexual person is one who feels an erotic-affective inclination for people of any gender or sex, being this gender or sex, determinant in the attraction. The difference between omnisexuality an -
Polysexual
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It is a category that belongs to sexual orientation. A polysexual person is one who feels erotic-affective attraction for people whose gender and/or sex can be classified into more than two categories. If a bisexual person feels the erotic-affective in -
Allosexual
Allosexual definition | Meaning, and origin of Allosexual | LGBT Glossary
Allosexual is a category belonging to sexual orientation (understood in a broad sense, not only to whom it is oriented, but also to how it is) that, by definition, is opposite to the concept of asexuality. An Allosexual person is one who feels sexual a -
Graysexual
Graysexual | Greysexual | Meaning and types of Greysexual people
Graysexual, also named greysexual, grey-asexual, gray-asexual, grey-A, gray-A, grey-sexual, gray-ace, grace, it is a category that belongs to the sexual orientation. A graysexual person is one who only feels sexual attraction on very specific occasions -
Demisexual
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It is a category that belongs to sexual orientation. A demisexual person is one who only feels sexual attraction for people with whom he has previously established a strong and lasting affective bond. They are people who, in the absence of this bond, b -
Asexual
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It is a category belonging, not without discussion, to the sexual orientation. An asexual person is one who does not feel sexual attraction for anyone and who has no or little interest in sexual activities. This does not include affective relationships -
Pansexual
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It is a category that belongs to sexual orientation. A pansexual person is the one who feels the erotic-affective inclination for people regardless of their gender identity, gender expression or biological sex, whatever they may be. -
Bisexual
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It is a type of sexual orientation. A person wich sexual orientation is bisexual is the one who feels physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction towards people of two genders and/or sexes, not necessarily at the same time, in the same way, at the -
Gay
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It is the most universal and internationally way to appoint homosexual men, that is, men who show inclination towards erotic and emotional relationship with individuals of the same sex. It is an English loan that has its origin in the Provencal word “g -
Heterosexual
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It is a type of sexual orientation. Man or woman whose physical and emotional attraction is directed towards people of the opposite gender. Heterosexual term appears at the same time the term homosexual, in the late 19th century, from the pen of a Hung -
Homosexual
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It is a type of sexual orientation. Man or woman whose physical and emotional attraction is directed towards people of the same gender. The term appears, at the same time than heterosexual term, in the late 19th century from the pen of a Hungarian poet -
Lesbian
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It is the most universal way to name homosexual women, ie women who show an inclination for erotic-affective relationships with people of the same sex. The word lesbian has its origin in the name of the Greek island of Lesbos, where the poet Sappho liv -
Homosexual behavior and homosexuality
The homosexual behavior and the homosexuality | Diferent things, The homosexual behavior and the homosexuality | Diferent things
I remember perfectly the day it started, was about 15 years old and at that time I was a boy in the Spain of the 80s who had had several girlfriends. I can not deny that there was always a background murmur and some sexual experiences during my childhood, also with girls, but all was relatively calm until one day, in the disco where every friday all high school people met… -
Pupil dilation and sexual orientation
Pupil dilation and sexual orientation| Is heterosexuality a minority?, Pupil dilation and sexual orientation| Is heterosexuality a minority?
Some time ago, began circulating through the networks the news about people’s sexual orientation could be known by measuring the pupil dilation. The news seemed interesting, but each of the links provided the same information and it did not report too much. As you know, in Moscas de Colores, we are very interested in any scientific information on sexual diversity in any of its aspects, so this news needed more detail to know if it was true or not and, in the second case, find out what was behind so much headline. That’s why we visited the website of the Cornell University (US) to look for that study and to see what we found.