What is demisexuality and polysexuality?

[Lovelife090994]

What are demisexuality and polysexuality? Is it gender specific? Is asexualiaty gender exclusive or can you be heterosexual and asexual? Is it like a pairing? What is it?

[Luminous]

Demisexual is when you only experience sexual attraction after you've experienced strong romantic attraction to that person. Polysexuality is attraction to multiple genders, including or outside of male and female (so for example, liking cis girls and bigender). Any gender can be demi or poly. You can be asexual, heteroromantic, if that's what you're asking.. That would mean not experiencing sexual attraction (but you may still get turned on and masturbate) but experiencing romantic attraction towards the opposite sex (generally hetero and homo are used considering only cis males and cis females). Usually when someone just says they're asexual, it means they're asexual and aromantic as well. Same for homosexual or heterosexual.