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No. 68204
>>68201
Bisexual does not necessarily include trans people or other non-traditional orientations, genders, etc. Saying "pan" rather than "bi" covers all your bases outside of a traditional male/female, gay/straight binary.
I suppose you could say "traditional," but wouldn't "traditional" in the way you're talking about mean marriage and monogamy? There's nothing very traditional about what the person in that profile is describing; were they to say "I am a traditionalist" or "I want a traditional relationship," that would lead me to believe they are on the conservative side of things, not open to alternative lifestyles, certainly not pan-anything. If I'm polyamorous, I feel automatically out of the traditional equation. However, if they describe themselves, not as traditional, but with another adjective to convey that though they are open minded and not hetero-normative, they want a deeper connection before sex happens. So say I'm non-monogamous or trans or gender-neutral: I'm not automatically excluded by their supposedly "traditional" values, I feel much more comfortable, much more welcome because, though they require a commitment or at least time to develop a connection before sex happens, they have made it clear they are not bound by the structures of hetero-normative relationships.
See why it's nice to have specialized language rather than all this exposition about what one means by "traditional?"
People who are outside the norm tend to group together - for safety, for a sense of belonging, and for myriad other reasons - and people who group together often form subcultures, and subcultures tend to have slang, jargon, specialized language, and other ways of communicating with each other.
Human sexuality is a dynamic, fluid, and deeply personal thing. And language can be either expressive or limiting, depending on how we utilize it. Why not use fluid, changing, specific, creative language to describe humanity's very dynamic, nuanced sexuality? Instead of expecting people to use limited terms to try to express a very unlimited sexuality, why not just be free and creative with our language in order to capture all these different aspects of our sexual lives?
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