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{{Sexuality Info|title1=|image1=Omniflag.png|caption1=The omnisexual flag.|gender(s):=Any|gender(s)_attracted_to:=All}}
[[File:Omniflag.png|thumb|220x220px|The omnisexual flag.|link=https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/File:Omniflag.png]]'''Omnisexual''' (often shortened to omni) is an orientation defined as the sexual attraction to all genders, though gender still plays a role in the attraction. Some people who identify as omnisexual may also have a preference to which gender they feel most attracted to, for others it may be equal attraction throughout all genders. This can also be a romantic orientation ([https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Omniromantic omniromantic]).▼
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The romantic equivalent is [[omniromantic]].
==Omnisexuality vs. Pansexuality==
Lots of people in the LGBT+ community are uneducated on the many forms of non-[[Monosexual|monosexuality]] (attraction to more than one gender) and are very confused when they see the terms [[pansexual]] and omnisexual side-by-side,however there is a distinction between them.
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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.
==History==
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, heterosexualor other orientations.
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Some fictional characters, such as Jack Harkness from ''Doctor Who, ''the ''Marvel'' character Deadpool, and Kevin Crawford from ''Paradise P.D.'' have has been canonically confirmed as omnisexual.
==Etymology ==
The prefix omni- comes from the Latin word ''omnis'', meaning 'all'. Pan-, which the term pansexual comes from, also means ’''all’'', and is a Greek prefix.
==Resources ==
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