As you have seen or heard the most common words such as unisexual, bisexual, and homosexual. I just found there are more than sexual preferences or terminology I could find from blog friends:
Unisexual - relating to, or restricted to one sex. A male or female but not hermaphroditic
Bisexual – relation to, both sexes. Having both male or female reproductive organs; hermaphroditic. Or, having a sexual orientation to persons of either sex.
Homosexual – relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of the same sex. Indeed, the words are gay and lesbian.
Heterosexual – sexually oriented to persons of the opposite sex. Relating to different sexes.
Metrosexual - An urban male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
Retrosexual - man with an undeveloped aesthetic sense who spends as little time and money as possible on his appearance and lifestyle.
Pomosexual – A person who shuns labels such as heterosexual and homosexual that define individuals by their sexual preferences.
Parasexual – relating to, being reproduction that results in recombination of genes from different individuals but does not involve meiosis and formation of a zygote by fertilization as in sexual reproduction.
Pansexual - relating to, having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds.
Intersexual – existing or occurring between the sexes. Having both male and female characteristics, including in varying degrees reproductive organs, secondary sexual characteristics, and sexual behavior, as a result of an abnormality of the sex chromosomes.
Some of the new term of words does not appear in dictionary.
Reference via: SmarterChild, Word Spy, and Merriam-Webster.
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