Bisexuality : what does it mean ?

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior toward both males and females,^[1][2][3] and may also encompass romantic or sexual attraction to people of anygender identity or to a person irrespective of that person's biological sex or gender, which is sometimes termed pansexuality.^[4][5][6]

The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women,^[1][2][3] and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, which are each parts of the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. A bisexual identity does not necessarily equate to equal sexual attraction to both sexes; commonly, people who have a distinct but not exclusive sexual preference for one sex over the other also identify themselves as bisexual.^[7]

Bisexuality has been observed in various human societies^[8] and elsewhere in the animal kingdom^[9][10][11] throughout recorded history. The term bisexuality, however, like the termshetero- and homosexuality, was coined in the 19th century.^[12]