Our ways of understanding sexuality and love have evolved and changed over time and what was believed to be correct and was seen as the only possible reality has been continually dismantled and reassembled.
If we review the evolution of the concept of love over time, we can clearly see how what we understand by love, by being a couple, the type of love at we aspire to, the sexual orientations we know, the forms of sexuality and the different ways of being a couple are very different in certain times and in other
In addition, this is something that evolves very quickly and that is why generational shocks are generated, where people who "resist" coexist. these new paradigms, because they come from a previous paradigm and it takes a lot for them to get used to this "new", and other people who were born when this change occurred and it is extremely natural for them to become familiar with these new ways of understanding love and sexuality.
It is for this reason that it is extremely important and necessary to dedicate a space to speak openly and demystify love in current times, so that they can live in harmony both paradigms and we can understand, regardless of the age or paradigm in which we grew up, what is understood today by love and sexuality and what is the paradigm that coexists between U.S.
That is why this Psychology-Online article will be dedicated to explaining the differences between bisexuality and pansexuality "
In general the concept of bisexuality it has been misunderstood over time and is often thought to refer to attraction to two genders; men and women, for its acronym Bi, but this is considered exclusive and wrong today. In addition, the fact of understanding it in this way has unleashed prejudices and false myths, such as that it is a "stage of identity confusion " that is between homosexuality and heterosexuality.
The truth is that none of this is true and that is why the State Federation of Lesbians, Gais, Trans and Bisexuals, in his Decalogue for bisexual visibility, cleared doubts and defined bisexuality What:
"An orientation of those who feel sexual, emotional and / or romantic attraction towards people of more of a gender and / or sex, not necessarily at the same time, in the same way, or with the same intensity"
Then, bisexuality would be the attraction to more than one gender. It is also important to clarify that bisexual people can also be attracted to non-binary gender people, and that is why the attraction is not to two genders, but to more than one gender.
The pansexuality wants to avoid the bias that bisexuality had and that is why it is defined as a sexual orientation in which the person is not attracted to a sexual gender, as it is understood in a binary way, but rather is open to any type of romantic relationship by anyone she is attracted to or attracted to. In Greek, "bread" translates to "everyone" and therefore the term "pansexual" can be understood as a sexual identity that is used to describe attraction to people of all genders.
THE GLAAD broadly defines being pansexual as:
"Being attracted to all gender identities or attracted to people regardless of gender. Being pansexual is feel aesthetic, amorous or sexual attraction to the different forms of gender, whether those in which that there is agreement between biological sex and gender (cis-gender) or where there is disagreement (transgender). Pansexual people have changing orientations, but this does not mean that they are unstable in their relationships. The term alone states that your choices encompass a wide range of possibilities and you give yourself the freedom to follow through on your wishes. " (Ghedin, W).
More than a sexual condition itself, it would be a way of understanding sexuality as a continuum rather than as a simple dichotomy and the emphasis is on that they fall in love with the person and not with their condition sexual.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
