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Pansexual could refer to someone who is sexually and/or romantically attracted to a person regardless of that person’s biological sex. In today’s world there are many people who believe that being anything other than a straight male or female is wrong. However there are some people who believe that you can love whoever you want because love is love. Most researchers go by the following definition “Pansexual is often conceptualized as a label that denotes sexual or romantic attraction to people regardless of their gender expression (masculinity or femininity), gender identity, or biological sex.” There are many different definitions of this topic though. Some people may think of pansexualism as the first definition or the second one. There are a lot of people in the world who confuse being pansexual and bisexual. According to lifescience.com pansexualism is a relatively new category of sexual identity. While the term "pansexual" is relatively new, its roots date back to the early 20th century and the work of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, who believed that all human behavior is motivated in one way or another by the sex instinct. He was criticized by his peers for this theory, which they dubbed "pansexualism." The term has since been reclaimed by those who wish to connote their recognition of the fluidity of gender and their belief that there are more than two genders. Based on the website everydayfeminism.com the word pansexualism can be broken up into parts. “Pan-“ is a Greek prefix referring to “all” or “every” coming together as one. Putting this together with “-sexual”, which I’m sure we recognize as referring to one’s own sexual desires and habits, creates a word that roughly means “someone who is attracted to all sexes and genders of people.” Singer and actress, Janelle Monae announced to the world that she is indeed a member of the LGBTQ+ community identifying as pansexual. According to thegiro.com, following her announcement, the term pansexual became the most searched word on various search engines, setting social media on fire. The website thinkprogress.org states that according to Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 2017 LGBTQ Teen Survey, the number of youth who identify as pansexual has doubled since 2012, with 14 percent of youth respondents embracing the descriptor and 34 percent identifying as bisexual. A similar HRC survey in 2012 reported only 7 percent of individuals identifying as pansexual, while 38 percent identified as bisexual. But the increase in the use of “pansexuality” as an identifier isn’t simply a fad. It demonstrates the dramatic shift in recent years toward greater visibility of LGBTQ people in general — and more fluid identities in particular — and the ways that each new generation of LGBTQ youth is remaking our ideas of gender and sexuality to better reflect their identities and lived experiences. I feel that people should love who they want to love and not worry about what others have to say about it. If a person loves someone not based on their gender but based on the personality the person has they should not be told they are crazy and they should just keep going on with their life. People need to understand that the world we live in now is not the same as it used to be and this is something that people identify as.

https://thinkprogress.org/youth-identifying-pansexual-lgbtq-3b010841159c/ https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/11/pansexuality-101/ https://www.livescience.com/41163-pansexual-sexual-orientation-pansexuality.h