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[–] 38 points 2 months ago (33 children)

Doesn't the name imply only two?

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  • [–] 68 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    No it implies once every other week

    Wait

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Well then what's semisexual?? I'll never get this figured out

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    that means you like large trucks for hauling commercial goods

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Ahhh, so pansexual means that you like half man, half goat people who play the flute? Or is it that you get an erection at the thought of buying new kitchen ware?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Link didn't work for me.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sure but it can be interpreted as "people who share my gender" and "people who do not share my gender."

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago*

    This is off-topic, but... For some reason, that reminded me of a funny exchange I had with someone who was buying a lottery ticket, years ago...

    Me: "What are the chances that you'll win?"

    Him, with a heavy southern (US) accent: "50/50. You either win or you don't."

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  • [+] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Ok but did we really need yet another term that is difficult to distinguish from pre-existing terms?

    When you have to write an essay to describe it, that should be a clue.

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  • [+] -15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Actually it originally refers to having two sexes. Aka hermaphroditic.

    I really hate how the word “sexual” has evolved in meaning into “relating to the activity that evolved to happen between the two main sexes”. We have the perfectly good Greek root “ero” and for some reason we have gradually muddled up the meaning of “sexual”.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    In plants*

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It could also be applied to animals meaning something that nowadays would be described as “intersex”.

    I just think this meaning makes much more sense than “being attracted to two (later multiple) sexes”. If about sexuality and not sex, “bisexual” should just mean “with sexuality related to the number two” based on the etymology.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I think what you're stuck on is the scientific use of a word and a social use of a word can have different meanings. And depending on context the scientific use can differ.

    In the case of bisexual, the term was likely used because the preference was for both genitals, since only 2 genders existed to science at that point. Also the term was coined by psychologists in 1890.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Well the modern usage of “bisexual” regarding sexual orientation has also found its way into science, evidenced by the lack of prominent scientific synonyms

    Which again is irritating because scientific terminology shouldn’t be this lax

    I think “bisexual” only references two sexes because it was created to describe a phenomenon related to sexual reproduction which evolved to occur between two main sexes; the term was unrelated to gender

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