Pomosexuality
I have learnt a new word today.
As so often on matters like this, I seem to be a late arrival. It must be my conventional education. That word is “Pomosexual”, a word used to describe "PostModern sexuality".
The mainstream definition of the word Pomosexuality refers to the fluid nature of our sexual orientations. While it is convenient to sort everyone into a handful of different groups - homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual - Pomosexuality argues that these words and categories cannot do justice to the complexity of human sexuality. Like many other things in life, sexual orientation isn't a black and white, either/or experience for many of us. (Emerging Women)This is a subject to which the always excellent Aphra Behn has averred without ever, to my knowledge, naming it.
I self-identify as queer. I am in a relationship with a transsexual, (a fact I hadn’t meant to talk about this early on in this space, but - hey). I am not straight because my partner… well, let’s just say I’m not straight. I’m not gay: I’ve had partners of both sexes. But I’m not bi either. Bi-sexuality suggests that you will have sex with people of either sex, but it says nothing about having sex with people who are intersex or transgender or any of the other spaces in between.Queer as folk. No. Queerer than that (Aphra Behn)
What does Pomosexual really mean? Whilst we await the judgement of the Oxford English Dictionary, I think for the time being it means anything you want it to mean. It means “anything goes”.
And why not?
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I think the old word for pomosexual would be "opportunist". Of course, it could just be an Aussie who doinks Englishmen...
Back in my distant student says we would have described such people as "omnisexual".
Or perhaps "omniverous"
Your blog was blocked on my Trust intranet filter today- 'banned key word'!!!
The word you're looking for is "trisexual".
You know, where you'll try anything.
..........arf
Does being a "Pomosexual" include shagging the family pet or the barnyard animals as well? After all if anything goes...
I sense an Enumclaw joke coming....
........arf
It still astounds me that intelligent, adult human beings can derive such amusement from something so benign as sexuality. It is less amusing when you are the one in the unenviable position of being sniggered at because your sexuality doesn't fit into some convenient pigeonhole. It would be lovely to live a life where sexual orientation was never an issue or something that had to be explained or justified or caused embarassment to other people.
On the one hand, I envy people who have never had to question their sexual identity, or to whom the concept of not fitting into a convenient ID is alien. Who will never know what it is like to have their choices - no, not their choices, their natural instincts and desires - under scrutiny, clear-cut justification expected where none exists in their world.
On the other hand, I pity them for being so completely oblivious to a whole other, deliciously accepting and open and diverse world, a world for which my life is infinitely richer.
Easy, easy, shp. Different strokes and all that.
People are fascinated by sex because it is a key part of being human, but (at least historically) one of the least openly discussed.
I don't think joshing gently about it means (e.g.) one would "scrutinise" one's co-workers for signs, or indeed care very much about their preferences. On the whole one is more interested in whether people are useful at their job, or easy to get along with, and who they sleep with is not a big deal.
But gossip and nosiness is such an intrinsic part of human nature (and workplaces) that it will never be banished by any amount of rules. Even if unvarying heterosexuality was universal everyone would still be watching to see who was "special friends" with whom.
I'm with SHP that sexuality is all part of life's rich tapestry.
Unlike this new fangled work that's not self evident in it's meaning and it's existence doesn't seem to enhance communication.
Making up new words like this . . . that's a neologism, isn't it?
Folk get locked up fer that sort of malarky ;-)
SHP, do you mean you pity all people who are sure about thier sexuality?
Pity? nah be happy for me if it wasn't just women i found attractive i would never get ANYTHING done!
As someone who has never had the slightest of confusing urges i really cn't understand what it must be like to not know your own sexuality.
Gay men are great... means less good looking guys to compete with!
I'm with Aphra Behn - I've always identified as queer because even if the person I was sleeping with at the time was of the "approved" variety I knew I wasn't. Plus with most of the other categories (hetero, homo), as soon as you step out of line and mess about with someone from the "other side" they nail you for a hypocrite. Much easier to simply be queer - it's friendly and all-encompassing.
Funny Pseudonym - no, I envy it. What I pity is the depth of ignorance that you display. I can't actually begin to articulate why I find your comments so offensive and idiotic, suffice to say that it makes me terribly sad because this is the kind of crap that the queer community has to put up with day in day out from people like you who couldn't begin to understand why the world doesn't actually conform to your blinkered view.
Well SHP i guess your humour center had a malfunction today.
I guess i will just have to continue to be offensive.
Should have pointed out most of my gay mates are better looking than me... so nice on a night out not to have to compete with them as well as my good looking straight friends.
How does this constitute "the kind of crap the gay community has to put up with day to day"?
I loved working in Canal St in the summer, the most friendly and least idiotic drinking area i ever worked.
I do wish I had any kind of respect for post-modernism but, honestly, how can one? It's a shame really, Pomosexual's such a neat word. Almost a homophone, but so deliciously not quite. If only post-modernists weren't such wankers...
>> "How does this constitute "the kind of crap the gay community has to put up with day to day"?
Well, colour me sensitive, but I do feel irritated to have it implied that I might shag animals simply because of the people I've been to bed with. I don't shag animals. Nor plants, vegetables, confectionary, soap, bottles or items of furniture for that matter.
Anyway, thanks for the plug, Dr C. :-)
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