Traditionally, there are 3 sexual orientations: heterosexual (attraction to the opposite sex), homosexual (same-sex attraction), and bisexual (attraction to both men and women).
Although covering the vast majority of the population, the traditional definitions do not cover other important sexual orientations.
Again, as it is with sexual genders, also is no one definitive number of sexual orientations that the experts agree on. Some say there are about 10 orientations, but some go all the way up to almost 50.
We will try to explain some of them below.