Different Sexualities, Genders, and Identifying Your Sexuality

Most people think their are 100+ sexualities but it is really much simpler than that. People have narrowed it down to 3 categories for sexualities

• Monosexual Orientation: people who are exclusively attracted to one gender.

Gay, lesbian, and straight are all the monosexual sexualities.

• Polysexual Orientation: people who are attracted to more than one gender.

Bisexual, pansexual, and queer are all examples of polysexual sexualities.

• Asexual Orientation: people who usually don’t have much of a sex drive or are not interested in sex.

Asexual, gray-asexuality, and demisexual are all great examples for the asexual definition.

Now that peoples have narrowed them down to something a bit more simple it will be better for all of us to understand what peoples classify themselves as.

Gender Identity & Expression

Now in my opinion, their a two genders, male and female. But for the sake of feedback reasons I will tell you other genders that are out their.

• Biological sex: you classify under your genitalia from which you were born.
• Gender identity: usually peoples who don’t associate with a gender at all but some go on a “feeling” of what they would like to be.
• Intersex: they don’t identify with their biological sex, kind of like gender identity, these people go on a “feeling.” These people are more formally known as hermaphrodites but today that is an offensive and outdated word.
• Transgender: the one that is talked about the most lately. These people don’t feel like they belong to their biological sex. They usually stick with different pronouns like they or it and for the most part choose to be either male or female.
• Two-spirited: these people consider themselves both male and female at the same time. They believe they are the blessed ones because they might have some male or female qualities at the same time.
• Ask yourself:

1. What attracts me to different people?
2. What kind of sexual fantasies do I usually focus on/ like?
3. What types of bodies, porn, and acts arouse me the most? (I know it can be awkward)
4. Do i think i would enjoy if i had a same sex encounter? Would i want to do it again?

• Try the Kinsey scale: it was developed by a man named Arthur Kinsey. It’s a list of questions asking about your sexual and romantic preferences that you answer with a goal of receiving a number of 1 to 6, that then places you on the scale. The number 1 signifies complete heterosexuality. The number 6 signifies complete homosexuality. Each numbers in between will be allotted to individuals that display a less than straightforward sexuality in there question and answers.

The scale can help you figure out your sexuality even though some say it is so simplistic. Here are some examples and more explanations of the Kinsey scale.