Editing Human sexual activity (section)

===Bisexuality and pansexuality===
{{Main|Bisexuality|Pansexuality}}
People who have a romantic or sexual attraction to both sexes are referred to as bisexual.<ref name="apahelp">{{Cite news |url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx |title=Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, and Bisexuality |website=APAHelpCenter.org |access-date=18 September 2012 }}</ref><ref name="glaad">{{cite web|title=GLAAD Media Reference Guide|access-date=18 September 2012 |publisher=[[Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation]]|url=http://www.glaad.org/document.doc?id=99|archive-date=1 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101043203/http://www.glaad.org/document.doc?id=99}}</ref> People who have a distinct but not exclusive preference for one sex/gender over the other may also identify themselves as bisexual.<ref name="Rosario">{{cite journal |author1=Rosario M. |author2=Schrimshaw E. |author3=Hunter J. |author4=Braun L. | year = 2006 | title = Sexual identity development among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths: Consistency and change over time | journal = Journal of Sex Research | volume = 43 | issue = 1| pages = 46–58 | doi=10.1080/00224490609552298|pmid=16817067 |pmc=3215279 }}</ref> Like gay and lesbian individuals, bisexual people who pretend to be heterosexual are often referred to as being [[closeted]].

Pansexuality (also referred to as omnisexuality)<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/omnisexual The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308133145/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/omnisexual |date=8 March 2016 }} – Fourth Edition. Retrieved 9 February 2007, from Dictionary.com website</ref> may or may not be subsumed under bisexuality, with some sources stating that bisexuality encompasses sexual or romantic attraction to all [[gender identity|gender identities]].<ref name="bisexuality">{{cite web|access-date=14 March 2011|title=What is Bisexuality?|work=The Bisexual Index|url=http://www.bisexualindex.org.uk/index.php/Bisexuality#binary}}</ref><ref name="Soble">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMTEiTtqqPcC|title=Sex from Plato to Paglia: a philosophical encyclopedia|volume=1|page=115|last=Soble|first=Alan|isbn=978-0-313-32686-8|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2006|chapter=Bisexuality|access-date=28 February 2011}}</ref> Pansexuality is characterized by the potential for [[aesthetic]] attraction, [[romantic love]], or sexual desire towards people without regard for their gender identity or [[Sex|biological sex]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/article/pansexuality|title=Pansexuality|work=UCSB SexInfo Online |publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara |date=15 December 2009 |access-date=25 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721201427/http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/article/pansexuality |archive-date=21 July 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Some pansexuals suggest that they are [[gender-blind]]; that gender and sex are insignificant or irrelevant in determining whether they will be sexually attracted to others.<ref>Diamond, L., & Butterworth, M. (2008). Questioning gender and sexual identity: Dynamic links over time. ''Sex Roles''. Published online 29 March 2008.</ref> As defined in the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]],'' pansexuality "encompasses all kinds of sexuality; not limited or inhibited in sexual choice with regards to gender or practice".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0602230#m_en_gb0602230 |title=Definition of pansexual – Oxford Dictionaries (British & World English) |publisher=Oxford Dictionaries |date=9 August 2012 |access-date=15 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510005353/http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0602230 |archive-date=10 May 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>