Multisexual spectrum

The multisexual spectrum (abbreviated m-spec) is also known as multiple-attraction spectrum, or multi-attraction spectrum. It is an umbrella term for sexual orientations in which a person is sexually and/or romantically attracted to more than one gender and/or sex. Multisexuality collectively includes labels such as bisexual, omnisexual, pansexual, and queer, along with the standalone multisexual label. Since the word multisexual can be used as an individual label and as a descriptor of different labels, this article addresses its use as the latter.
The use of the label bisexual for anyone who is attracted to multiple genders (also rendered as bisexual+ or bi+) instead of multisexual is a matter of personal preference, not a hard distinction.
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==Community==
===Identities under the umbrella===
====Bisexual====
====Omnisexual====
====Pansexual====
====Polysexual====
====Queer====
===Distinction===
The use of "plurisexual" regarding multisexuality is specific to academia. The authors M. Paz Galupo, Renae C. Mitchell, and Kyle S. Davis categorized multisexual as a plurisexual identity, which they defined as "identities that are not explicitly based on attraction to one sex and leave open the potential for attraction to more than one sex/gender; e.g., bisexual, pansexual, queer, fluid". They contrasted plurisexual with monosexual and used it instead of non-monosexual "because it does not linguistically assume monosexual as the ideal conceptualization of sexuality." Unlike the label "multisexual", plurisexual was not used by study participants as a self-identifier; it was used by the authors for description and categorization of identity labels.
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==References==
Category:Terminology
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Category:Umbrellas and spectrums
 
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