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Homoflexible

Homoflexible describes someone who is mostly gay or lesbian but is occasionally attracted to people of another gender.

Homoflexible.
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Homoflexible describes a person who is predominantly homosexual but is sometimes open to attraction or sexual activity with people of a different gender. It is the mirror image of heteroflexible, which describes someone mostly straight with occasional same-sex attraction. Both words treat sexual orientation as a spectrum with a dominant pull rather than a strict either-or. The term reflects a wider cultural shift toward talking about sexual fluidity, and some people use it as a comfortable middle ground between gay and bisexual. Others see it as overlapping heavily with bisexuality. As with any identity label, what matters most is that it fits how a person actually experiences their own attractions.

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