What on earth is "pansexual"?



Atop all the things we have to keep up with, it seems like celebrities are now naming their sexuality.

The Voice coach Miley Cyrus long admitted to dating both the male and female folk (bisexual right?) but she says she's not bisexual because the term puts her in a box and clearly she's neither gay nor straight. What is she then?

“My whole life, I didn’t understand my own gender and my own sexuality,” Cyrus told Variety  “I always hated the word ‘bisexual,’ because that’s even putting me in a box. I don’t ever think about someone being a boy or someone being a girl. Also, my nipple pasties and sh– never felt sexualized to me. My eyes started opening in the fifth or sixth grade. My first relationship in my life was with a chick.”

In her July interview with Paper Magazine, Cyrus came out as pansexual. In case you're a little confused about the term, the singer explained that she is "open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn't involve an animal and everyone is of age"

So basically bisexual.

The decision to embrace her sexuality did not come easy to the star but she was able to gain clarity by visiting LGBTQ centres and interacting with individuals with fluid sexuality.

“Even though I may seem very different, people may not see me as neutral as I feel. But I feel very neutral. I think that was the first gender-neutral person I’d ever met. Once I understood my gender more, which was unassigned, then I understood my sexuality more. I was like, ‘Oh — that’s why I don’t feel straight and I don’t feel gay. It’s because I’m not.’”

To see more of her interview, visit Variety


Image credit: WARWICK SAINT FOR VARIETY