Sexualities and Identities
On this page you will learn all about the different sexualities that there are!
The Definition of sexuality is: a person's identity in relation to the gender or genders to which they are typically attracted; sexual orientation
Asexual
Individuals who don't experience sexual attraction to other of any gender.
Aromantic
People who experience little or no romantic attraction, regardless of sex or gender.
Bisexual
Those who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attractions to people of more than one gender. This also includes individuals who are attracted to a variety of people, with similar genders and different ones than their own.
Biromantic
Those who experience romantic attraction, but not sexual attraction, to individuals of more than one gender.
Cupiosexual
This term describes asexual people who don't experience sexual attraction but still have the desire to engage in sexual behavior or a sexual relationship.
Demisexual
Individuals who experience sexual attraction only under specific circumstances, such as after building a romantic or emotional relationship with a person.
Gay
This term describes individuals who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to people of the same or similar gender. (This flag is the male gay flag.)
Graysexual
This term acknowledges the gray area on the sexuality spectrum for people who don't explicitly and exclusively identify as asexual or aromantic.
Heterosexual
Describes people who experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to people of the opposite gender or a different gender. Cisgender and transgender identified people can be heterosexual. This is also commonly known as straight.
Lesbian
A woman or female-identified person who experiences sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to people of the same or similar gender.
Monosexual
This term is a very broad sexual orientation category that includes people who experience romantic or sexual attraction to people of one sex or gender. This typically includes people who are exclusively heterosexual, gay, or lesbian.
Omnisexual
Similar to pansexual, this term can be used to describe individuals whose sexuality isn't limited to people of a particular gender, sex, or sexual orientation.
Pansexual
Individuals who can experience sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction to any person, regardless of that person's gender, sex, or sexuality.
Polysexual
With bisexuality, pansexuality, omnisexuality, queer and many others under the umbrella term Polysexual. This term is used to describe individuals with a sexual orientation that involves sexual or romantic attraction to people with varying genders.
Queer
Another umbrella term that describes the individuals who aren't exclusively heterosexual
Sapiosexual
A word used to describe those who experience attraction based on intelligence, rather than sex or gender.
Sex-averse
This describes those who are asexual and are averse to or extremely disinterested in sex or sexual behavior.
Skoliosexual
A sexual orientation that describes those who are sexually attracted to people with non-cisgender identities, such as people who are nonbinary, genderqueer, or trans.
Spectrasexual
A term that describes people who are sexually or romantically attracted to multiple or varied sexes, genders, and gender identities, but not necessarily all or any.
The definition of identity is: the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
Agender
Denoting or relating to a person who does not identify themselves as having a particular gender.
Androgynous
Partly male and partly female in appearance; if indeterminate sex.
Bigender
Denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity encompasses two genders.
Demigender
individuals who feel a partial connection to a particular gender identity.
Genderfluid
Denoting or relating to a person who does not identify themselves as having a fixed gender.
Genderqueer
This is a gender identity that's built around the term "queer."
Intersex
A general term that describes bodies that fall outside of the strict male/female binary.
Multigender
This term is used to describe people who experience more than one gender identity.
Nonbinary
Nonbinary is another umbrella term but at its core it is used to describe someone whose gender identity isn't exclusively male or female.
Transgender
A person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.
The definition of pronouns are: a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse.
She/Her/Hers
Pronouns for those who identify as female.
He/Him/His
Pronouns for those who identify as male.
They/Them/Theirs
Pronouns for those who identify as neither male or female.
Ze/Hir/Hirs
Gender-neutral pronouns.
Ze/Zir/Zirs
Gender-neutral pronouns.
Demigirl/ demiboy/demifluid
Partial connection to a certain gender.
Gender-neutral Terms
Instead of boy(s)/girl(s), man/woman, and men/women, use person, people, or humans.
Instead of ladies and gentlemen, use folks.
Instead of daughter or son, use child.
Instead of sister and brother, use sibling.
instead of niece and nephew, use nibling.
Instead of mother and father, use parent.
Instead of husband and wife, use partner or spouse.
Instead of grandmother or grandfather, use grandparent.