Actress and singer Monica Dogra came out as a pansexual last year. The 39-year-old revealed his sexual orientation while promoting his drama series, The Married Woman, at Awadh Queer Pride in Lucknow. In a recent interview, he shared his journey as a pansexual person. Speaking to Hindustan Times, Dogra said that he had only heard the word pansexual about five or six years ago and thought it described him. The Dhobi Ghat actress said that earlier the sexual orientation was very black and white. “Either you were gay or you were straight. And if you were gay you certainly weren’t accepted or celebrated. Gay was also a slang word that meant something bad. It was too twisted.” He said.
With awareness among people, words like gay, bisexual and pansexual are becoming more visible.
Still unclear to many about what these terms mean, let’s break down the differences between bisexual and pansexual:
pansexual
According to the Human Rights Campaign, a pansexual person “has the capacity for emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to people of any gender.” The word pansexual is made up of two words: pan and sexual. Pan means all, so pansexuality means sexual attraction towards different or all genders.
It should be noted that pansexuality falls under the larger “bi+umbrella”. Pansexuality is actually one aspect of bisexuality, but the term means something different to many sexes than attractiveness.
Bisexual
A bisexual person is someone who can be attracted to more than one gender. People who identify as bisexual are attracted to and different from their own gender. Queer therapist and coach Morgan Thomas told Cosmopolitan that a bisexual man may have gender preferences regarding sex, whereas a pansexual man usually doesn’t take gender into account, but focuses on other aspects of a person. . does.
It should be noted that a pansexual man can be attracted to his own gender as well as people of the other gender. However, for a pansexual man it is not one’s gender that determines whether or not they want to date someone.
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