Name of sexuality

[keidriantiger]

What is the sexuality called that you like someone for their personality but your not bi?

[CanadaRocksEH]

Closest one i can think of would be Pansexuality:is a sexual orientation, characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire towards people, regardless of their gender identity or biological sex. Some pansexuals suggest that they are gender-blind;

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Panexuality does imply a sexual attraction though, which the OP claims not to have.

Basically, you need to be emotionally and physically attracted to both genders to be bi, pansexual, or any other sexuality which includes more than one gender as potential partners. If you're only physically and emotionally attracted to one, then you're either straight or gay depending on which gender it is that attracts you. Being soley emotionally attracted to someone (liking them for their personality, but not having any sexual desire towards them) doesn't really have to do with your sexual orientation. You can like anyone's personality, and it doesn't have to mean anything.

However, if you mean that you aren't attracted sexually to anyone regardless of gender, is sometimes called being asexual. Don't jump to any conclusions if this seems to fit the bill, though--you just might not really be into that yet.

More detail on the topic can be found in this sticky (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18215).

[Giles]

Did you consider reading this (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18215) before posting your question?

I'm too lazy to look through them for you, have a look.

[keidriantiger]

Closest one i can think of would be Pansexuality:is a sexual orientation, characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire towards people, regardless of their gender identity or biological sex. Some pansexuals suggest that they are gender-blind;

You got it, thanks :3

I have an old friend who is Pansexual but I forgot the name for it. Sorry that I couldn't have made the post more descriptive. I was using my Wii at the time.

[Jean Poutine]

No, it's not pansexuality. Being pansexual means that you can be sexually attracted to men, women, and transgender people. It can be said that pansexual people are "gender-blind".

From what you've said it's just a platonic relationship.

Quit searching for labels to try to make yourself unique and interesting.

[The Joker]

Liking someone for their personality doesn't mean your bi.

You have to like men and women, physically and emotionally, to be bi.

[Appleton]

Wouldn't this just be called "friendship"? Not trying to be smart at all, it just seems like a good definition to me.

[keidriantiger]

No, it's not pansexuality. Being pansexual means that you can be sexually attracted to men, women, and transgender people. It can be said that pansexual people are "gender-blind".

From what you've said it's just a platonic relationship.

Quit searching for labels to try to make yourself unique and interesting.

No, he got it right I think.

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Just liking someone for their personality does not mean you are physically attracted. I like my friends for their personality, versus for looks or money or something, but I don't want to have sexual relations with them. The physical attraction has to be there for it to be related to your sexuality. Like I said, you can like anyone's personality, it doesn't have to mean anything about your sexuality though. If I were only sexually attracted to guys, then liking a female friend for her personality wouldn't indicate that I was bi--because there's no physical attraction.

Same with pansexuality. If you are emotionally AND physically attracted to people regardless of gender or orientation (including transgender, such as a man who lives as a woman and may have gone through gender reassignment surgery), then that's more like pansexuality. Just liking their personality isn't enough to constitute that though, and your description was just "you like someone for their personality."

I think that's why we're confused.

[AllThatIsLeft]

I think what he means to say that regardless of what gender, he is attracted to someone based on personality. It doesn't mean there isn't sexual attraction.

but as a pan-sexual is described being "gender blind" it is really more based on personality.

Follow?

[Kaleidoscope Eyes]

Yeah, I suppose so. I'm not trying to tell him that we know his sexuality better than he does or anything. xP Just explaining why everyone seems so confused.

Pansexuality isn't any more based on personality than any other sexuality, though, I will disagree on that point. You still have to have a sexual attraction. It may be "gender blind", but it is still based on physical attraction as much as emotional attraction. Both attractions are still present the same way they are for any other sexuality.

[keidriantiger]

Just liking someone for their personality does not mean you are physically attracted. I like my friends for their personality, versus for looks or money or something, but I don't want to have sexual relations with them. The physical attraction has to be there for it to be related to your sexuality. Like I said, you can like anyone's personality, it doesn't have to mean anything about your sexuality though. If I were only sexually attracted to guys, then liking a female friend for her personality wouldn't indicate that I was bi--because there's no physical attraction.

Same with pansexuality. If you are emotionally AND physically attracted to people regardless of gender or orientation (including transgender, such as a man who lives as a woman and may have gone through gender reassignment surgery), then that's more like pansexuality. Just liking their personality isn't enough to constitute that though, and your description was just "you like someone for their personality."

I think that's why we're confused.

Thank you for clearing it all up. It is pansexuality. Sorry for not making the OP so clear. It is hard to type with a Wiimote. And, again, it's not me (I'm happily Bi) but it's a friend.