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Polysexual

Polysexual describes a sexual orientation in which a person is attracted to multiple genders, though not necessarily all of them.

Polysexual describes attraction to multiple genders, but not necessarily all of them. The prefix poly means many, and the term is often set beside two neighbors: pansexuality, which is attraction to all genders or regardless of gender, and bisexuality, which is attraction to two or more genders. A polysexual person is drawn to a specific set of genders rather than every possibility, for example women, non-binary people, and agender people but not men. It is not the same as polyamory, which is about having multiple partners at once. The polysexual pride flag, created by a Tumblr user in 2012, has three stripes: pink for attraction to women, green for attraction to non-binary people, and blue for attraction to men.

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