pansexualn.
/panˈsɛkʃʊəl/, /panˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/, /panˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌpænˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/ A person who may be sexually attracted to others regardless of their biological sex or gender identity. Also (and earliest): an animal that exhibits sexual behaviour towards others of its species regardless of their biological sex.
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1977 A. S. Flicker Perception of Crowding (Ph.D. diss., Hofstra Univ.) Introd. 4 One group of males [sc. rats] became pansexuals, attempting to mount estrous females, non-estrous females, and males.
1980 Hudson Rev. Spring 147 Mr. Maupin's people, mostly San Francisco homosexuals (of both sexes) or bisexuals or pansexuals.
1999 Hispania Mar. 100/1 He abandons Rebecca and takes up with a gang of leather-clad pansexuals.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 June e9/1 Mr. Boulton—androgyne, publishing-industry lightning rod, self-proclaimed ‘pansexual’ and self-aggrandizer.
2017 Daily Mirror 29 June 41 22-year-old Izzy, a pansexual who is open to dating any gender.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pansexualadj.
/panˈsɛkʃʊəl/, /panˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)l/, /panˈsɛksjʊ(ə)l/, U.S. /pænˈsɛkʃ(əw)əl/ 1. Psychology. Of or relating to pansexualism (pansexualism n. 1).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [adjective] > not sexually limited
pansexual1914
polysexual1962
1914 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 9 270 Let us add that this applies not to all Freudists,..for a change has come about, and many no longer believe in this pan-sexual phantastery..; but it appears to apply as yet to all the Freudian disciples in America.
1926 W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. xviii. 314 The dogma that the Œdipus complex is present in all men is the principal instrument of the pan~sexual theory.
1939 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 45 397 You will find him indignantly denying that his psychology is a pansexual one at all.
1952 Irish Times 17 Sept. 3 It has not been proved..that the pan-sexual method of a certain school of psycho-analysis is an integral and indispensable part of all serious psychotherapy worthy of the name.
1997 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 77 53 Psychoanalysis..was accused of being a pansexual, ‘metaphysical’ theory of dubious morality, lacking a scientific foundation.
2. That encompasses all kinds of sexuality; not limited or inhibited in sexual choice with regards to gender or practice.
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1969 R. Morgan Let. 9 July in K. Payne Between Ourselves (1983) 274 K. and I are trying to be humanly unisexual, or pansexual.
1974 Observer 7 Apr. 36/6 Eventually, no doubt, some biographer will tell us how far he [sc. H. de Montherlant] was homosexual, heterosexual or—as seems to be suggested by some discreet passages about bestiality and incest—pansexual.
1977 Guardian Weekly 7 Aug. 18/2 An exquisitely Victorian taste for extravagant, pansexual erotic fantasy.
2001 Maclean's 13 Aug. 10/1 (heading) Whether you are omnisexual, pansexual, or just plain old bisexual..here are some of the workshops.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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