Parosexual

Parosexual is an term to describe one who is attracted to multiple genders and experiences different forms of sexual attraction to the different genders one is attracted to.^[1]^[2] For example, one might experience allosexual attraction to men and non-binary individuals, but lithosexual attraction to women. This term is both m-spec and a-spec, and could be considered a type of myrsexual attraction.

Alternative parosexual flag by Tumblr User cattodaddo.

Simplified Alternative paro- flag by Tumblr User cattodaddo.

This could be considered an umbrella term for identities such as dellosexual (when one experiences allosexual attraction to some genders, but is demisexual attraction to other genders).

Paro- differs from varoriented, as varoriented refers to one having different orientations for different types of attraction (e.g., panromantic homosexual), whereas paro- refers to one having different forms of a single type of attraction (e.g., different forms of sexual attraction) towards the different genders one is attracted to.

It's romantic counterpart is paroromantic.

Parosexualflux

Parosexualflux is a term similar to parosexual, where "ones different kinds of parosexuality can fluctuate" (see also parofluid). This could be interpreted as:

Experiencing one or more forms of fluctuating sexual attraction within a parosexual orientation (e.g., aceflux towards one or more genders, and statically demisexual towards others).
Usually experiencing ones m-spec orientation as parosexual, but ones attraction fluctuates so that one: sometimes only experiences one form of sexual attraction; sometimes feels that ones forms of sexual attractions are less distinguished from one another; and/or sometimes feels one has less of a connection to the parosexual label.

History

Parosexual was coined by Tumblr user beau-is-gai, on or before 2nd April 2018. Parosexualflux was coined by Reddit user u/DemifluixTulpaTalk, 20th July 2021.^[3]

Flags

The parosexual flag was created by Tumblr account Beyond-MOGAI-Pride-Flags, 3rd August 2018.^[4] It was one of seven paro- flags, created for each of the different types of paro- attraction.

The original parosexual flag was created by Tumblr account Beyond-MOGAI-Pride-Flags, 2nd April 2018.

An alternate paro- flag was created by Tumblr user cattodaddo, June 15th 2018.^[5]

Resources

[1] ttps://polymorphic-cryptid.tumblr.com/post/174927928549/alternative-design-for-the-paro-flag-bc-the

[2] ttps://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/168185913164/1-could-i-coin-a-term-ive-come-up-with-the

[3] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/parosexual/comments/omnxtw/parosexualflux/

[4] ttps://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/176577269740/paro-pride-flags

[5] ttps://polymorphic-cryptid.tumblr.com/post/174927928549/alternative-design-for-the-paro-flag-bc-the

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