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[[File:Omni 3 stripe.png|thumb|The omnisexual flag with three stripes.]]
[[File:Alt Omnisexual.png|thumb|An alternate omnisexual flag by TheNelsonSystem.]]
[[File:Alternate omnisexual flag..webp|thumb|An alternate omnisexual flag by [
[[File:Alternate omnisexual flag...webp|thumb|An alternate omnisexual flag.]]
[[File:Omnisexual alternate.png|thumb|Cryptocrew's omnisexual flag.]]
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The most commonly cited difference is that omnisexuals factor gender into their attraction to a individual, whereas pansexuals generally do not feel any internal difference between genders, or that any difference felt between genders is irrelevant, it does not factor into their attraction. This is what is meant when pansexuals are referred to as “gender blind”.
Omnisexuals may also feel a difference in attraction between genders. This can manifest in having a preference for certain gender(s). It can also feel that attraction to a certain gender feels different to the attraction to another. (for example: they may feel like the act of being attracted to a woman feels different then being attracted to a man). Omnisexuals may be attracted to entirely different traits for different genders, or may find certain traits more attractive in some genders than in others. Some individuals may choose to identify with both terms simultaneously, while others may feel that one describes them more accurately than the other. As such the distinction between pansexual and omnisexual often comes down to
===Bisexuality ===
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The word omnisexuality appears as early at the 1959 beat poet Lawrence Lipton's ''The Holy Barbarians'',<ref>https://archive.org/stream/holybarbarians001288mbp/holybarbarians001288mbp_djvu.txt</ref> but the first time it was described in the context of the current definition was in a 1984 text titled simply ''Sexual Choices: An Introduction to Human Sexuality''.<ref>https://books.google.com/books/about/Sexual_choices.html?id=xitHAAAAMAAJ</ref> This text described omnisexuality as "a state of attraction to all sexes", stating that some researchers believe that every individual is born omnisexual before developing their sexual attraction into the labels of homosexual, heterosexual, or other orientations.
==== The term spread even further in the early 1990s 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 2010s, ''The Atlantic'' noted that his poetry expresses sexuality towards all genders, sometimes even the sea or the Earth. ====
Omnisexual was a common message board term in the 2000s. The knowledge of this term was boosted even further when several celebrities, such as Janelle Monáe and Brendon Urie, came out as pansexual. The media made several non-monosexual terms known in the mainstream as that took place. Many popular articles discussed omnisexuality alongside these celebrities' pansexuality.
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