Sexual Preference: Difference between revisions

Help

Content added Content deleted

VisualWikitext

Inline

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 '''Sexual preference''' is an aspect of [[sexuality]] which describes an individual's preferences in a [[Sexual Attraction|sexual]] partner. One's sexual preferences do not inherently make one [[LGBT+|LGBT]].
-Sexual preference is similar to and often confused with [[sexual orientation]]. However, while sexual orientation describes the [[Gender Identity|gender identities]] or [[Gender Alignment|gender alignments]] to which an individual feels [[attraction]], sexual preferences describe other qualities or aspects which one feels are important in a sexual partner. Often sexual preferences are for aspects of an individual which do not deal with or are less central to identity than one's gender identity is.
+Sexual preference is similar to and often confused with [[sexual orientation]]. However, while sexual orientation describes the [[Gender Identity|gender identities]] or [[Gender Alignment|gender alignments]] to which an individual feels [[attraction]], sexual preferences describe other qualities or aspects which one feels are important in a sexual partner. One might experience attraction to a set of individuals due to their orientation, but prefer to act on that attraction with only some of those individuals due to a sexual preference.
-Sexual preference may also be differentiated from sexual orientation in that a sexual preference may have more of a degree of choice to it.<ref>https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/language</ref>
+For some the term sexual preference may also be implied to have a degree of choice to it.<ref>https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/language</ref>
-Common examples of sexual preferences may include the following:
+Often sexual preferences are for aspects of an individual which do not deal with identity or are less central to identity than one's gender identity is. Common examples of sexual preferences may include the following:
 * A preference for individuals with a certain appearance or aesthetic.