Polysexual

The Polysexual official flag

Polysexual is one of the not as well known sexual orientations. It is a multisexual orientation that means someone who is sexually attracted to many, but not all genders and/or sexes. How exactly is this different from bisexual, multisexual, or pansexual/omnisexual? For starters, pansexual/omnisexual is sexual attraction to all genders and sexes. So that crosses out that. Bisexual, linguistically speaking means sexual attraction to "2", however, there are numerous ways to interpret "2" (many bisexuals say "I am sexually attracted to my own gender and others" and that still fits the numerical '2'). Multisexual can be used as an umbrella term (any sexual orientation that means sexually attracted to two and/or more genders or sexes) or as an individual term (when used in this sense, many have used it to say "many different circumstances affect my sexual orientation - it is easier to just say multisexual as opposed to explaining the many different circumstances to which this could apply to"). The easy answer? It widely varies and everyone will feel comfortable with a different term for what to identify themselves with.

Polysexual is NOT synonymous with polyamorous or polygamy. Polyamorous deals with the number of romantic partners. Polygamy is a form of marriage that involves multiple partners. Polysexual solely deals with sexual attraction. 

Google Trends state that people have been looking up this term on Google since at least 2004. The flag itself was created in July 2012 by a user who called themselves "Samlin". They said the colors represent: "pink is an attraction to feminine identified people, green is for non-binary or beyond the binary individuals, blue is for masculine-identified people".

As of this blog post (January 2020), I was unable to find official resources of information or a community beyond Facebook groups for polysexuality (official website, message board/forum, etc.).