Plurisexuality

{{Short description|Attraction to more than one sex or gender}}

{{Context|date=May 2024}}

{{Sexual orientation}}

Plurisexuality or multisexuality is a term used to describe individuals who are attracted to multiple genders.{{Cite journal |last1=House |first1=Rebecca |last2=Jarvis |first2=Nigel |last3=Burdsey |first3=Daniel |date=2022-07-03 |title=Representation Matters: Progressing Research in Plurisexuality and Bisexuality in Sport |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |volume=69 |issue=8 |pages=1301–1321 |doi=10.1080/00918369.2021.1913916 |issn=1540-3602 |pmid=33999781|doi-access=free }} This includes certain sexual identities such as pansexuality, bisexuality, omnisexuality, and polysexuality, falling under the umbrella of non-monosexuality, which encompasses all sexualities that are not exclusively heterosexual or homosexual.{{Cite journal |last=Coston |first=Bethany M. |date=January 2021 |title=Power and Inequality: Intimate Partner Violence Against Bisexual and Non-Monosexual Women in the United States |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0886260517726415 |journal=Journal of Interpersonal Violence |language=en |volume=36 |issue=1–2 |pages=381–405 |doi=10.1177/0886260517726415 |pmid=29294898 |issn=0886-2605|url-access=subscription }} It is also referred to as multiple-gender attraction (MGA).{{Cite journal |url=https://academic.oup.com/tcbh/article/32/1/119/5855845 |access-date=2024-04-14 |journal=Twentieth Century British History |doi=10.1093/tcbh/hwaa018 |title=Bisexuality, Multiple-Gender-Attraction, and Gay Liberation Politics in the 1970s |date=2021 |last1=Robinson Rhodes |first1=Martha |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=119–142 |pmid=39478238 |url-access=subscription }} Plurisexual individuals may experience sexual attraction to people of different genders, which can include but is not limited to men, women, non-binary, genderqueer, and other gender identities. Plurisexuality can be fluid and may vary from person to person.{{Cite thesis |title=Conceptualizations of Identities in Bisexual, Pansexual, and Plurisexual Communities |url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/126821 |date=March 2023 |degree=Thesis |language=en |first=Clara Marie |last=McNamee}}{{Citation |last=Galupo |first=M. Paz |title=4 Plurisexual Identity Labels and the Marking of Bisexual Desire |date=2018 |work=Bisexuality: Theories, Research, and Recommendations for the Invisible Sexuality |pages=61–75 |editor-last=Swan |editor-first=D. Joye |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71535-3_4 |access-date=2024-04-08 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-71535-3_4 |isbn=978-3-319-71535-3 |editor2-last=Habibi |editor2-first=Shani|url-access=subscription }} Abrosexual, for example, can be used to describe when one's experience changes in their attractions over time.{{Cite journal |last=Doughton |first=Eleanor |date=2022-01-01 |title="I've never met another person with this identity": The Experiences of Abrosexual Individuals on TikTok |url=https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/showcase/2022/soc_anth_cj/3 |journal=Capstone Showcase}}

Multisexual was also used to describe multicultural sexual diversity,{{Cite journal |last=Pallotta-Chiarolli |first=M. |date=1999 |title=Diary entries from the "teachers' professional development playground": multiculturalism meets multisexualities in Australian education |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10197554/ |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |volume=36 |issue=3–4 |pages=183–205 |doi=10.1300/J082v36n03_12 |issn=0091-8369 |pmid=10197554}} among other things.{{Cite journal |last1=Bonissone |first1=Stefano R. |last2=Subbu |first2=Raj |editor-first1=Bruno |editor-first2=David B. |editor-first3=James C. |editor-last1=Bosacchi |editor-last2=Fogel |editor-last3=Bezdek |date=2002-12-06 |title=Exploring the Pareto frontier using multisexual evolutionary algorithms: an application to a flexible manufacturing problem |url=https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/4787/0000/Exploring-the-Pareto-frontier-using-multisexual-evolutionary-algorithms--an/10.1117/12.455866.full |journal=Applications and Science of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Evolutionary Computation V |publisher=SPIE |volume=4787 |pages=10–22 |doi=10.1117/12.455866|bibcode=2002SPIE.4787...10B |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Atkinson |first=Elizabeth |date=July 2002 |title=Education for Diversity in a Multisexual Society: Negotiating the contradictions of contemporary discourse |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681810220144873 |journal=Sex Education |language=en |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=119–132 |doi=10.1080/14681810220144873 |issn=1468-1811|url-access=subscription }}

Some plurisexual people may feel represented by the bisexual umbrella,{{Cite web |title=Quit Censoring My (And Others') Bi Identities |url=http://bi.org/en/articles/quit-censoring-my-and-others-bi-identities/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=Bi.org |language=en}} however not every plurisexual identifies as bisexual.{{Cite journal |last1=Cipriano |first1=Allison E. |last2=Nguyen |first2=Daniel |last3=Holland |first3=Kathryn J. |date=2022-10-02 |title="Bisexuality Isn't Exclusionary": A Qualitative Examination of Bisexual Definitions and Gender Inclusivity Concerns among Plurisexual Women |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15299716.2022.2060892 |journal=Journal of Bisexuality |language=en |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=557–579 |doi=10.1080/15299716.2022.2060892 |issn=1529-9716|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Mitchell |first1=Renae C. |last2=Davis |first2=Kyle S. |last3=Galupo |first3=M. Paz |date=2015-07-03 |title=Comparing perceived experiences of prejudice among self-identified plurisexual individuals |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19419899.2014.940372 |journal=Psychology & Sexuality |language=en |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=245–257 |doi=10.1080/19419899.2014.940372 |issn=1941-9899|url-access=subscription }} While more specific and less known plurisexual identities exist, bisexuality and pansexuality are more established and understood concepts within the LGBT community and among the general public,{{Cite magazine |last=Zane |first=Zachary |date=2018-06-29 |title=What's the Real Difference between Bi- and Pansexual? |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/whats-the-real-difference-between-bi-and-pansexual-667087/ |access-date=2023-11-03 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}{{Citation |last=Galupo |first=M. Paz |title=4 Plurisexual Identity Labels and the Marking of Bisexual Desire |date=2018 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71535-3_4 |work=Bisexuality: Theories, Research, and Recommendations for the Invisible Sexuality |pages=61–75 |editor-last=Swan |editor-first=D. Joye |access-date=2023-11-03 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-71535-3_4 |isbn=978-3-319-71535-3 |editor2-last=Habibi |editor2-first=Shani|url-access=subscription }} but they may experience monosexism, erasure, and heteronormativity.{{Cite journal |last1=Chan |first1=Randolph C. H. |last2=Leung |first2=Janice Sin Yu |date=2023 |title=Monosexism as an Additional Dimension of Minority Stress Affecting Mental Health among Bisexual and Pansexual Individuals in Hong Kong: The Role of Gender and Sexual Identity Integration |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36121683/ |journal=Journal of Sex Research |volume=60 |issue=5 |pages=704–717 |doi=10.1080/00224499.2022.2119546 |issn=1559-8519 |pmid=36121683}}{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Jessica |title=Why pansexuality is so often misunderstood |url=https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220926-why-pansexuality-is-so-often-misunderstood |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en}}