Parasexual

[Rev. Green]

We used to have just a few genders, then LGB, then LGBT. Recently, I heard something like LGBTQ+. Can't we have a word to describe all these conditions? How about 'parasexuals'?

[Peter Pedant]

blimey dnt we have enough words in English ?

[drmorgans]

Conditions? Is male or female a condition? A way of perceiving our sex, sexuality and gender.

[maggiebee]

Don't care how a male identifies himself, he'll still want his prostate checked when he's 40.

[DTCwordfan]

I was rather tickled by that hospital radiology department, Rotheram wasn't it, that was asking men if they were pregnant.....really, woke gone totally bonkers. Not even trannies can have babies - yet.....though that may not be that far off.

[FatticusInch]

I thought we already had a word for it.
Pansexual?

[naomi24]

How about just plain bonkers?

[Maydup]

How about the word - People?

[FatticusInch]

Moot point anyway in these modern times, isn’t it all about what you ‘identify’ as?

Since the age of 14 or so it’s become apparent to me that I am in fact a lesbian…….




trapped in a man’s body.

[Untitled]

Parasexual if I am not mistaken has a history in psychiatric terminology to describe sexual mental illness... not a terribly nice or accurate word for LGBTQ people...

confusingly they now tend to refer to themselves as "queer" as catch-all for non-hetero and/or non cisgendered... which I had always thought to be out but appears to have come back in again! :)

[bobbinwales]

Dtc but they might be pregnant women who identify as men.
I do get confused by this though

[gingejbee]

We still have "a few genders"...it's sexual identities that you are on about.
And how would the prefix "para" help? (look up the meaning).

[ToraToraTora]

Parasexual? does that mean they sky dive?

[ToraToraTora]

"Can't we have a word to describe all these conditions?" - there is one, well an acronym at least, MAABOF.

[Untitled]

i would like to remind people that the "conditions" listed in the OP include being gay bi or lesbian... so calling it "bonkers" or "maabof" is not a good look

[Peter Pedant]

oops untitled is quite right ( parasexual is used in psych)
well he wont be listened to on AB will he?

[Paigntonian]

Why on earth should I care what people get up to with their willies or front bottoms?

[TheChair]

L, G, and B are not genders, they are sexual orientations, the first two of which could just be lumped together as H.

[tomus42]

You are a few letters out of date Rev. They keep adding them and we are now up to LGBTQIA2+. (Google it if you don't believe me).

It definitely needs a proper word.

[davebro]

I don't think para is the right prefix.

[douglas9401]

Well somebody should have a proper word.