Parosexual is an term to describe one who is attracted to multiple genders and experiences different forms of sexual attraction to the different genders one is attracted to.[1][2] For example, one might experience allosexual attraction to men and non-binary individuals, but lithosexual attraction to women. This term is both m-spec and a-spec, and could be considered a type of myrsexual attraction.
![](http://static.miraheze.org/lgbtawiki/thumb/f/fe/Parosexual1.jpg/300px-Parosexual1.jpg)
![](http://static.miraheze.org/lgbtawiki/thumb/3/3e/PAROSEXUAL.png/300px-PAROSEXUAL.png)
![](http://static.miraheze.org/lgbtawiki/thumb/f/fe/Parosexual.png/300px-Parosexual.png)
![](http://static.miraheze.org/lgbtawiki/thumb/c/cc/Newparosexualflag.png/300px-Newparosexualflag.png)
This could be considered an umbrella term for identities such as dellosexual (when one experiences allosexual attraction to some genders, but is demisexual attraction to other genders).
Paro- differs from varoriented, as varoriented refers to one having different orientations for different types of attraction (e.g., panromantic homosexual), whereas paro- refers to one having different forms of a single type of attraction (e.g., different forms of sexual attraction) towards the different genders one is attracted to.
It's romantic counterpart is paroromantic.
Parosexualflux
Parosexualflux is a term similar to parosexual, where "ones different kinds of parosexuality can fluctuate" (see also parofluid). This could be interpreted as:
- Experiencing one or more forms of fluctuating sexual attraction within a parosexual orientation (e.g., aceflux towards one or more genders, and statically demisexual towards others).
- Usually experiencing ones m-spec orientation as parosexual, but ones attraction fluctuates so that one: sometimes only experiences one form of sexual attraction; sometimes feels that ones forms of sexual attractions are less distinguished from one another; and/or sometimes feels one has less of a connection to the parosexual label.
History
Parosexual was coined by Tumblr user beau-is-gai, on or before 2nd April 2018. Parosexualflux was coined by Reddit user u/DemifluixTulpaTalk, 20th July 2021.[3]
Flags
The parosexual flag was created by Tumblr account Beyond-MOGAI-Pride-Flags, 3rd August 2018.[4] It was one of seven paro- flags, created for each of the different types of paro- attraction.
The original parosexual flag was created by Tumblr account Beyond-MOGAI-Pride-Flags, 2nd April 2018.
An alternate paro- flag was created by Tumblr user cattodaddo, June 15th 2018.[5]
Resources
- ↑ https://polymorphic-cryptid.tumblr.com/post/174927928549/alternative-design-for-the-paro-flag-bc-the
- ↑ https://ask-pride-color-schemes.tumblr.com/post/168185913164/1-could-i-coin-a-term-ive-come-up-with-the
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/parosexual/comments/omnxtw/parosexualflux/
- ↑ https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/176577269740/paro-pride-flags
- ↑ https://polymorphic-cryptid.tumblr.com/post/174927928549/alternative-design-for-the-paro-flag-bc-the