Many social, cultural, and behavioral phenomena pose measurement challenges to researchers. This is an umbrella term and can describe pan, omni, and poly, among others, but can also be a sexuality on its own.Operationally Defining and Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity It's normal to have preferences and sometimes not be into women for a little while or not be into men for a while (sexuality shifts and there's periods of change) but abrosexuals' sexuality completely changes.īisexual - Attraction to people of more than one gender (or people of genders similar to and different to your own). Not just women but people of multiple genders who are feminine.Īsexual - Little or no sexual attraction to anyone.Īromantic - Little or no romantic attraction to anyone.Ībrosexual - Abrosexuals have changes in their sexual orientation over time. Not just men but people of multiple genders who are masculine. Lesbian - women (or non-binary people) who are attracted to the same gender/womenĪndrosexual - attraction to masculinity. Gay - attracted to the same gender as yourself Also your romantic and sexual attraction can be different from each other - I have friends who are biromantic homosexual and things like that! Also I wanted to say that for a lot of bisexual people, attraction to different genders feels different! This is super important to remember and could have helped me a lot. I wanted to add some quick information on some terms if you're unsure on what different terms mean or which one you are. I kind of just want someone’s opinion, a reply would be appreciated as I’ll likely be checking this, it’s a lot, but you don’t have to read the whole thing So I said, for the beginning of a random joke, “Guys, I have to tell you something” and both of them, just so genuinely said “you’re gay?” and I died, I think they think something is up.Īnd even I, stupidly enough, can’t fully convince myself of the absolute certainty that I may be pansexual or something, being able to confidently say to myself that I know for a fact who I am, and I haven’t really been able to talk about it. I was on call with some friends and a kind of funny thing happened. I don’t know since I only liked two people if I’m pan or bi though, but I kind of just feel like I fit in when I hang out with lgbtq+ friends, and I went to the lgbtq+ club at school, and I’ll do it again. I don’t care about their gender or looks, I just care about their morals and personality. I’m a girl, I very very rarely find anyone attractive in an indifferent way from anyone else, and I guess it’s just kinda happened with my two friends. I’ve been trying to figure this out for like half a year now, yes I have taken a million quizzes, I did really like a friend who I thought was a boy but she was trans, and I do really like a friend who I thought was a girl but they’re non-binary, and I even slept in their bed like 4 times during sleepovers and they held my hand and it was- nice.