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Trisexual: Madonna kisses Britney and Christina, but they're not lesbians. Some might say that's so gay, but wouldn't suggest they're queer. They can't be metrosexual. That's a guy thing, not a gay thing. Maybe they're just heteroflexible.

Language defining sexual orientation is evolving to meet the needs of society to find more meaningful descriptive words for sexual preferences. The word "homosexual" seems archaic, sometimes, and even the word "gay" seems to be lacking clarity as an indicator of sexual orientation. To get a sense of the linguistic nuances of sexual diversity, read this recent article by San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Rona Marech, who provides detailed definitions for the latest sexual neologisms.

Someone who is "genderqueer," for example, views the gender options as more than just male and female or doesn't fit into the binary male-female system. A "trannydyke" is a transgender person (whose gender is different than the one assigned at birth) attracted to people with a more feminine gender, while a "pansexual" is attracted to people of multiple genders. A "boi" describes a boyish gay guy or a biological female with a male presentation; and "heteroflexible" refers to a straight person with a queer mind-set.

The list of terms -- which have hotly contested definitions -- goes on: "FTM" for female to male, "MTF" for male to female, "boydyke," "trannyboy, " "trannyfag," "multigendered," "polygendered," "queerboi," "transboi," "transguy," "transman," "half-dyke," "bi-dyke," "stud," "stem," "trisexual," "omnisexual," and "multisexual."
Some people explore a broader range of sexual experiences; "trisexuals" try anything once and, if they like it, they'll try it again and again and again.
Posted by abnu on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 @ 12:28 AM [ + ]

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