What is the word?

[Lovelife090994]

What do you call it when one's romantic attractions and physical attractions go to two different genders or physical characteristics instead of one? Like with most homosexuals, heterosexuals, and the like whom who or what they like tends to match the gender of their preference.

[ksdnfkfr]

Bisexual. Means you find both male and female romantically and psychically attractive.
Lots of bisexuals are attracted to one gender more than the other.
Like a bisexual male might be more attracted to girls than boys, but still finds boys appealing romantically and psychically. I know of one older guy who has had 3 girlfriends and 2 boyfriends.

[Elysium]

If I'm understanding this correctly, I'm actually going to disagree with bisexual. That implies both a romantic and sexual attraction to both sexes. To differentiate between romantic and sexual attractions, you could use two terms: prefix-romantic and prefix-sexual. So, for example, if you were romantically attracted to the opposite sex but sexually attracted to the same sex, you could say heteroromantic homosexual. There's no one word for it that I know of.

[centropede]

well, i would say that i am heteroromantic homosexual.
Because i dont think i could have sex with a girl but i could live together or marry her.

[teen.jpg]

What the posters above said is basically accurate but I must ask why you're so concerned when you said that you don't really like labels

[Lovelife090994]

What the posters above said is basically accurate but I must ask why you're so concerned when you said that you don't really like labels

Can't I ask?