Pansexuality

[Nikol Hasler]

Hello all. Someone on LiveShow last night said that there are no homo or heterosexuals. They believe we are all pansexual. Pansexuality is a sexual attraction to all sexualities. What are your thoughts on this?

[John Boogersmith]

I think that there are sexualities, as well as people who find themselves outside of sexuality categories. But to say that someone is not heterosexual or homosexual when they identify as such is a little silly. Granted, you have people whom are homosexual who may not be comfortable with that fact until they are older, but they know themselves better than someone else would.

I'm heterosexual, and I didn't have to labor to determine that -- it came naturally. Other people don't have it so easy though, and some people may (in experimenting and trying to find their own sexuality) determine that they don't find anything unattractive.

And that is what keeps daytime talk shows on TV. So the world is a better place because of those people. :) The end.

[Nikol Hasler]

Thanks Boogersmith.

I do believe that some people are pansexual, and I believe that it has been a struggle for them to have others recognize this as a possibility. That is why I find it hard to understand why someone who has dealt with that kind of scrutiny would so strongly step on the possibility that others are not pansexual. I know quite a few homosexuals, heterosexuals and bisexuals who would disagree. I know some transexuals who are only interested in members of the opposite or same identifying sex.

There are so many possibilities for how we are wired. Once we can all just worry about our own sexuality and accept that not everyone is the same we will be in much better shape, tolerance speaking.

[Ashley S]

Pansexuality makes sense however I've seen it demonized similarly to the way bisexuality is, unfortunately. I think that the easiest way to think of pansexuality is the idea that you are attracted to the person, not their gender expression. In a culture that is so attached to everything on a binary system, the idea of pansexuality will seem completely strange and unacceptable to many. However, I do think that for many people who fall somewhere along the sexuality spectrum as opposed to those who claim to be firmly at one end or the other, pansexuality could be extremely relatable and much more universal than the current hegemonic system in place.

[James Martin]

Sexuality is one of those fields that seems to hold a lot of grey in between the black and white. We settle ourselves into the patch of grey that we feel comfortable in, so to dismiss everyone as somehow encompassing the whole spectrum seems dismissive of the full spectrum somehow. I myself am not aroused by members of the same sex, naked, clothed or otherwise. I've never connected in any intimate way with a member of the same sex. You could argue that I'm following a socially constructed norm, but it really doesn't matter ti anyone save academics; the result is that I am not pansexual. I do allow that some people are, but I'd imagine that they're most likely just one of the flavors, not the whole palette.

[Lynne Tansey]

In my opinion, we are all pansexual..anybody who thinks differently is in denial.
With prejudices put to one side, with social & sexual expectations put to one side, we are pansexual!
There is a male & female within all of us..to explore this is to acknowledge the existence of the other. As regards the color of someone skin..well..need I say anymore?

[James Martin]

If this were true then we would expect to see it in the animal kingdom where social and sexual expectations are lacking. But we don't. Also we'd expect to find a pansexual civilization somewhere in the human record. But we don't. There is no evidence to suggest that the pansexual identity is anything other than a social construct itself. Not that I'm implying any moral or ethical values to that one way or the other, however evidence seems to suggest it.

[Paul Bridson]

Perhaps, like so many things, sexuality is a spectrum... with no discreet steps. Different people simply occupy unique places along the spectrum. No black and white even exists???

[Kita]

I think that maybe, in a small way we could all be pansexual... but only in the physical sense. Physically, whoever gets your rocks off, cool for them. And truthfully, it's not like there aren't ways of getting yourself excited in situations that seem uncomfortable.

But I honestly think that we are all our own people and sexualities in love. We could have sex with almost anyone... but loving someone is so much more difficult that we have to cut some types of people out of the running.