A portmanteau of pomo, short for postmodernism, and sexual, used as a noun—a person who rejects/avoids or does not identify as categorizations of sexual orientations (e.g., heterosexual and homosexual, which define people by relative conceptualizations of their sexual preferences and their direction of attraction) as a form of identity—and as an adjective, referring to such a person or to the philosophy of pomosexuality .
Elisa: What's your sexual orientation, john?
John: I do not identify as any sexual orientations labels.
Elisa: But, everyone is either pan/omni , bi, straight, gay, or an asexual.
John: None of them works for me and I refuse to use a label to define my sexual preference. I am a pomosexual.
John: I do not identify as any sexual orientations labels.
Elisa: But, everyone is either pan/omni , bi, straight, gay, or an asexual.
John: None of them works for me and I refuse to use a label to define my sexual preference. I am a pomosexual.
by Reptillian February 10, 2013
Get the Pomosexual mug.Someone who doesn’t necessarily feel attraction to a gender(s) but could see themselves having a relationship with a person of that gender or doesn’t care about what gender that person is.
Different from Pansexual and Omnisexual, as pansexual is attraction to all genders but is “genderblind” or doesn’t have a preference, and omnisexual is attraction to all genders and notices those genders or has a preference.
Potsexual, is however, a person that is not necessarily attracted to a gender(s) but they can imagine themselves being in a relationship with a person of that gender(s) or they don’t care about their gender; Gender doesn’t play a role in attraction; They can be attracted to a person of any gender but that is not the determining factor of their attraction to them. They are attracted to a person’s personality traits or their physical appearance, but not necessarily their gender.
Can be a more specific pansexual label or slightly different version of pansexual.
Can use pansexual as an umbrella term and can also fall under the ace-spec umbrella.
Name inspired by similarity to pansexual.
“Pots and pans.”
Can be used as potromantic for romantic attraction.
Different from Pansexual and Omnisexual, as pansexual is attraction to all genders but is “genderblind” or doesn’t have a preference, and omnisexual is attraction to all genders and notices those genders or has a preference.
Potsexual, is however, a person that is not necessarily attracted to a gender(s) but they can imagine themselves being in a relationship with a person of that gender(s) or they don’t care about their gender; Gender doesn’t play a role in attraction; They can be attracted to a person of any gender but that is not the determining factor of their attraction to them. They are attracted to a person’s personality traits or their physical appearance, but not necessarily their gender.
Can be a more specific pansexual label or slightly different version of pansexual.
Can use pansexual as an umbrella term and can also fall under the ace-spec umbrella.
Name inspired by similarity to pansexual.
“Pots and pans.”
Can be used as potromantic for romantic attraction.
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by a girl that’s polosexual July 26, 2021
Get the polosexual mug.Pomosexual is a term popularized by sex-positive activists and writers Carol Queen and Lawrence Shimel in their 1997 Anthology "Pomosexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality". People who identify as Pomosexual are attempting to redefine, reassess and protest current essentialist-bound labels surrounding sexual orientation.
"What ARE you?"..."Excuse me?"..."Like...what ARE you?"..."I'm a human being, what does it look like?"..."yeah but...what ARE you?"...I'm POMOSEXUAL, okay!?!"
by GummiBarenGirl October 23, 2007
Get the pomosexual mug.Adam: "I used to think I was bi, but I realized that sexuality is so much more complicated than that. What does that make me?"
Dave: "Queer?"
Adam: "But I'm also a sesquipedalian circumloquacious obscurantist douchebag, and I want to keep my liberation confined to the academically privileged."
Dave: "Oh! You're totally pomosexual."
Dave: "Queer?"
Adam: "But I'm also a sesquipedalian circumloquacious obscurantist douchebag, and I want to keep my liberation confined to the academically privileged."
Dave: "Oh! You're totally pomosexual."
by Colorless green idea January 19, 2010
Get the Pomosexual mug.Somewhere inbetween bisexual and heterosexual; where a woman would turn gay for Natalie Portman only.
"Oh my god, V for Vendetta - Natalie Portman is the only woman in the world who can pull off being bald"
"Yeah I know, I'm totally portsexual now"
"Yeah I know, I'm totally portsexual now"
by fox gill February 3, 2008
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*Girl walks in*
"NOT AGAIN! How the fuck did you get in my house?...Damn pomosexuality"
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*Girl walks in*
"NOT AGAIN! How the fuck did you get in my house?...Damn pomosexuality"
by slicedkiwis September 28, 2013
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