An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people.

 – a person’s emotional, romantic and/or sexual attraction to another person.

Whether a person's sexual attraction is towards their own sex, the opposite sex or to both sexes.

The term used to describe whether a person feels sexual desire for people of the opposite gender, same gender, or both genders. People who feel sexual desire for members of the other gender are heterosexual, or straight. People who feel sexual desire for people of the same gender are homosexual, or gay. Gay women are called lesbians. People who are [..]

Sexual orientation refers to each person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to, and intimate and sexual relations with, individuals of a different sex/gender or the s [..]

A feeling of attractedness or arousal associated with a particular gender. Sexual behavior can be a result of this but does not necessarily define a person’s orientation.

The direction of one's sexual interest or attraction. It is a personal characteristic that forms part of who you are. It covers the range of human sexuality from lesbian and gay, to bisexual a [..]

The manner in which one experiences sexual arousal.

a person's enduring attraction to one sex or the other. Orientation can be hetero, homo or bisexual.

Do you like men or women? Your sexual orientation is your sexual preference for members of the same sex or opposite sex. If you like members of the same sex you would be classified as having a homosex [..]

The type of people that individuals are either physically or romantically attracted to, such as those of the same or opposite sex.

Refers to the sex of those to whom one is sexually and romantically attracted. Categories of sexual orientation typically include attraction to members of one’s own sex (gay men or lesbians), attracti [..]

A person's habitual sexual attraction to, and activities with: persons of the opposite sex, heterosexuality; the same sex, homosexuality; or both sexes, bisexuality.

How someone thinks of oneself in terms of emotional, romantic or sexual attraction or affection for another person.3

The scientifically accurate term for an individual’s enduring physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction to members of the same and/or opposite sex, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual (straight) orientations. Avoid the offensive term “sexual preference,” which is used to suggest that being gay or lesbian is voluntary and therefor [..]

 the direction of one's sexual interest or attraction. It is a personal characteristic that forms part of who you are. It covers the range of human sexuality from lesbian and gay, to bisexual and [..]

Sexual Orientation is an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or affectional attraction or non-attraction to other people.  Sexual orientation is fluid and people use a variety of labels to describe t [..]

Describes whether a person is homosexual

"Sexual orientation" means an individual's actual or perceived heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality or gender identity, regardless of whether the individual's gender identit [..]

Patterns of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to groups of people (e.g. men, women, trans people), a person’s sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions; for example pansexual, bisexual, LGB, heterosexual.

refers to sexual attraction. Some people use this term to also talk about romantic attraction.

The sexual attraction people feel for, or the erotic relationship they develop with others of their own sex, of the opposite sex or of both sexes.

Refers to the gender or genders a person is attracted to. See lesbian, gay, bisexual, straight, sexuality.

A protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. Bisexual, gay, lesbian and straight (heterosexual) people are all protected in employment, education and provision of services and public functi [..]

refers to the gender(s) that a person is emotionally, physically, romantically and erotically attracted to. Examples of sexual orientation include homosexual, bisexual, heterosexual and asexual. Trans [..]

A term used to describe who a person is emotionally and physically attracted to. For example, a person who is attracted to the opposite sex or gender might describe their sexual orientation as straight.

Term that describes who a person is attracted to; i.e., heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, etc.

According to the traditional perspective, one of two possible self-images an individual may have of himself (normally correlating to one's own sex); and according to more liberal views, one of a [..]