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'''Omnisexual''' is an orientation defined as the sexual attraction to all genders. This can also be a romantic orientation
== Omnisexuality vs. Pansexuality ==
Lots of people in the LGBT+ community are uneducated on the many forms of
Pansexual people are
Omnisexual people are also attracted to all genders, much like pansexuals, but they are not gender-blind. Omnisexuals do recognize the gender of the person they are attracted to, and for some, it is a major factor in attraction. For some, it isn't, but they are still not gender-blind if they call themselves omnisexual.
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== History ==
The word
The term spread even further in the early 1990's as M. Jimmie Killingsworth undertook an analysis of the poet Walt Whitman<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0895769X.1991.10542654?journalCode=vanq20</ref>. In Killingsworth's study, he found that Whitman had a general omnisexual character throughout his work ''The Leaves of Grass. ''In the 2010's, ''The Atlantic ''noted that his poetry expresses sexuality towards all genders, sometimes even the sea or the Earth.
== Etymology ==
The prefix '''omni-''' comes from the Latin word ''omnis'', meaning 'all'.
== Resources ==
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[[Category:Sexuality]]
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