Sexual Orientation - A sexual orientation is whether you feel a sexual attraction to another person or not, and who you are sexually attracted to. Sexual attraction is a desire to have sexual relations with another person and/or vivid sexual fantasies of said person. Sexual attraction should not be confused with aesthetic attraction.
Romantic Orientation – A romantic orientation is whether you experience romantic attraction to another person or not, and to whom you experience romantic attraction to. Romantic attraction is a desire to be close/intimate with another person, but is not necessarily sexual. Romantic orientation is used strongly by asexuals as they do not experience sexual attraction.
One’s sexual and romantic attractions may not align. An asexual is not necessarily aromantic and a sexual is not necessarily romantic. As well, a person may be heterosexual but may be homoromantic, because again, sexual and romantic attractions may not be the same
Heterosexual – Sexual attraction to a different sex/gender
Homosexual – Sexual attraction to the same sex/gender
Bisexual – Sexual attraction to more than one sex/gender
Pansexual – Sexual attraction to people regardless of sex/gender
Asexual – Does not experience sexual attraction
Demisexual – Only experiences sexual attraction after a strong emotional bond has been established
Greysexual – Only occasionally experience sexual attraction
@I_Like_Books I'm just cautious around simplified definitions as they can reinforce harmful ideas that end up making peoples' lives more difficult.
For example treating homosexual and bisexual as strictly separate leads concepts like "gold star lesbian" which is used to exclude lesbians who are see as "less pure"
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