ABSTRACT
This chapter considers sexual fluidity in the light of new sexual identities, especially pansexuality. Attractions/behavior/ or identity that is not ‘monosexual’ — attracted to only one gender — is rather ‘multisexual’. Sexual fluidity is now used in the scientific literature almost as a stand-in for multisexuality, the capacity to experience attractions to all genders/gender presentations/agender/genderfluid /gender blind humans. Pansexuals often distinguish themselves from bisexuals because they feel that ‘bisexual’ implies an attraction to both men and women while pansexual denotes either attractions to ‘all’ genders — male, female, transgender, gender nonconforming, and gender nonbinary — or attractions that are ‘gender blind.’ Sexually fluid people have no more control over their attractions than do heterosexual or gay people, but they may be surrounded by peers and family who either negate their identity or believe it means they can ‘choose’ to be straight.
