SEXUALORIENTATION

Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation is an enduring personal quality that inclines people to feel romantic or sexual attraction to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generally subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality, while asexuality is sometimes identified as the fourth category. These categories are aspects of the more nuanced nature of sexual identity. For example, people may use other labels, such as pansexual or polysexual, or none at all. According to the American Psychological Association, sexual orientation "also refers to a person's ...

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sexual orientation

Noun

  1. One's tendencies of sexual attraction, considered as a whole.
    There are more sexual orientations than simple homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality.


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