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This is a list of well-known/simple sexuality terms, though there is a detailed page for each of them on this wiki. Terms are grouped under umbrella terms for simplicity.
- Heterosexual: exclusive attraction to people of the dissimilar gender
- Homosexual: exclusive attraction to people of the similar gender
- Monosexual: attraction to people of only one gender
Fem Attraction[]
- Lesbian: a woman/nonbinary person exclusively attracted to women/nonbinary people
- Femmesexual/Finsexual/Gynesexual/Gynosexual: attraction to femininity and/or womanhood
Masc Attraction[]
- Gay/Uranian/Turian/Veldian/Cinthean: a man/nonbinary person exclusively attracted to men/nonbinary people
- Agynosexual/Androsexual/mascusexual/minsexual: attraction to masculinity
Multisexual[]
- Androbisexual: bisexuality but with a stronger attraction to men
- Androflexible: mostly attracted to men but with rare attraction to women
- Androgynosexual: non-exclusive sexual attraction to both men and women
- Anthrosexual: attraction to people regardless of gender identity
- Bisexual: attraction to two or more genders
- Cupidosexual/mutosexual: attraction to all genders, but sexual attraction fluctuates between genders
- Omnisexual: attraction to all genders but with a preference
- Pansexual: attraction to all genders without a preference
- Polysexual: attraction to some genders, but not all
- Spectrasexual: attraction to multiple/varied genders
Ace-Spec[]
- Abnosexual: fluctuation between platonic, romantic, and sexual attraction
- Abrosexual/sanssexual: fluctuating attraction between genders
- Aceflux: fluctuation between asexuality and non-asexuality / fluctuation between ace-spec identities
- Aegosexual/Limnosexial: experiencing no sexual attraction, but fantasizing about sexual relationships and depictions
- Agentosexual: having or having had some degree of control over one's sexual attractions
- Akoisexual/Lithosexual/Proculsexual: experiencing sexual attraction but not wanting it reciprocated
- Apothisexual: does not seek a sexual relationship; feels repulsion towards it
- Asexual: having (little to) no sexual attraction
- Burstsexual: usually experiencing no sexual attraction, but having sudden bursts of sexual attraction
- Ceasesexual: having sexual attraction that sometimes disappears
- Cupiosexual: wanting a sexual relationship but having no sexual desire
- Fictosexual: exclusively attracted to fictional characters
- Graysexual: less sexual attraction than typical, but experiencing some form of sexual attraction
Other sexualities[]
- Autosexual: attraction to oneself
- Boreasexual: an attraction out of your usual sexuality, e.g. a lesbian dating a man
- Casssexual: indifference to sexual orientation
- Avansexual/ceterosexual/narysexual/neusexual/ninsexual: exclusive attraction to non-binary individuals
- Coeosexual: only feeling attraction if felt that attraction when first meeting someone
- Fraysexual: developing attraction with no emotional bond, then after a bond is formed, that attraction is lost (the opposite of demisexual)
- Demisexual: exclusive attraction to those one has formed a close emotional bond with
- Flexisexual: a gender fluid person who changes their gender identity to the preferences of their crush
- Novisexual: not being able to label your attraction
- Novosexual: a gender fluid person who changes their sexual orientation to their current gender
- Onesexual: only being attracted to one person in your whole life
- Penultisexual: being attracted to all genders except your own
- Pomosexual: rejecting the idea that sexuality and gender can be labeled properly
- Toric: a non-binary person who feels exclusive attraction to men
- Trixic: a non-binary person who feels exclusive attraction to women
- Wentisexual: a person only attracted to people with the same sexuality as them