Ken Wickham - Sphere: Androgyny 01 - Fall 2015: thoughts, fashion, history, and reviews

Miley Cyrus recently revealed more about her relationships and view of her sexuality in Elle UKs October 2015 edition. While this may be the first many have heard of Pansexuality, the term has been used for at least the last 100 years.

Im very open about it Im pansexual. But Im not in a relationship. Im 22, Im going on dates, but I change my style every two weeks, let alone who Im with.

UrbanDictionary.com describes Pansexuality as One who can love sexuality in many forms. Like bisexuality, but even more fluid, a pansexual person can love not only the traditional male and female genders, but also transgendered, androgynous, and gender fluid people.

How does this fit in with Androgyny you might ask. Gender wise, almost half of non-binary people sexual orientation or romantic attraction can be described as bisexual, pansexual, or queer. This article is for that non-binary half. Pansexual, although more prevalent now days, has been around many years.

Pansexual was a term many times used with Freuds Psychoanalysis doctrine and dogma in the early 1900s

In the early 60s, it was used in a study to describe a group of rats that chose mates that were male, female, and juvenile. They were described as male rats behaving in feminine manner, rarely contending against the other dominant rats. The article doesnt say how many times that they actually did contend with dominant status rats, which can only be assumed was a few times. Interesting to note, this study also found homosexual, asexual, and transgender behaving rats. Interesting as well, the article calls asexual rats somnabulists, and likens them to healthy & attractive zombies. And the study found violent rats, which it calls probers . They would stay in the middle, be very active, hypersexual, violent, and canabalistic.

It was also used in the mid 60s sexual revolution movement.

In the 70s, one writing explained that humans are inherently a pansexual creature, capable of responding to a variety of sexual stimuli...every sexually responsive person could respond to every other sexually responsive individual if it werent for aversion reactions and that shifts occur throughout the lifetime of individuals.

One article that sticks out for me is from April 1, 1974 edition of the New Yorker by Judy Klemesrud entitled The Bisexuals which was written during a period of time when sexuality was in or becoming popular. In that article, they list several popular celebrities and historical people that were reportedly open to more than one sex or gender.

Reading that article, I wondered if Miley Cyrus article spawned any similar response - a desire to list celebrities that are pansexual. The need to know who else is this way. Or is Miley the only one.

Most pansexuals will never be known outside of their inner circles.

Even in this old study, behavior similar to human behavior. The violent and sexual in the middle chasing, fighting, and sexually pursuing the others until even up to death.