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Polysexuals, those are people who experience attraction to people of multiple genders.

Polysexuals are not to be confused with omnisexuals. Those are people who experience attraction to people

of all genders who are not to be confused with bisexuals. People who experience attraction to two

or more genders who are not to be confused with homosexuals. Those are people who don't adhere to

sexual orientation labels and, quote, tend to resist conventional methods of categorizing sexuality,

which is why they needed their own category. And, of course, polysexual people are not to be

confused with polyamorous people who have more than one committed romantic partner. A polyamorous

person can be polysexual and a polysexual person can be polyamorous, but not all people who are

one kind of poly are both kinds of poly. I learned all this reading a 10,000 word explainer on

polysexuality published on the website Quirty last week. What is polysexual unpacking the term?

There was a whole section in that unpacker. I'm the myths and misconceptions people tend to have

about polysexual people, which is kind of hilarious and mind bending when you think about it, because

it's actually hard to have a misconception about something you literally have no concept of,

because you've never heard of it, because someone made it up two minutes ago, or because it's not a

thing, or maybe it is a thing, but it was already a thing, and that thing already had a name, or two

names. In this case, by ampan, and we didn't need another one, or another two, one really easy way

to tell the polysexual is just another word for bisexual, is by reading the myths and misconceptions

section of this unpacker at Quirty. By some non-miraculous non-coincidence, all those myths and

misconceptions about polysexuals are the same myths and myths conceptions people tend to have about

bisexuals, that they always cheat, that they're hypersexual, that they're really gay. Yeah, what's

not true about bisexuals also isn't true about polysexuals, because polysexuals are bisexuals

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