Pansexuality is, to me, the idea that the binary norms of gender are not a factor in your mind's process to determine sexual attractiveness. Rather, your mind uses their personality, experience (read: past history with them), gossip, physical appearance, and your desires (among other possible factors) to filter out who you find attractive.
This is strikingly different than bisexuality because in that it often respects the one-to-one relationship of gender and sex. That isn't to say that bisexuality always does, but it's most basic levels often do. Pansexuality gains increased relevance to describing sexuality when you look at gender and sex as not only two different characteristics, but gender as a complete spectrum. Gender is nothing like biological sex, but a complete range to describe how a person carries themselves.
What pansexuality isn't.
Pansexuality is not attractiveness towards all people, nor is it the inherit flexibility of one's sexual thresholds where they always want to have sexual intercourse.
Pansexuality is not an excuse for someone to have rampant sex, even though many people use it as such a scapegoat.
What pansexuality is!
Pansexuality is, again to me, the application of a different set of glasses onto people. It is a set of glasses that doesn't look into biological sex or physical appearance as dominating factors in attractiveness.
Pansexuality is liberating because if you are pan then you're able to look beyond many of the things that most people use to (in comparison to you) limit their sexuality.
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