Miley Cyrus Comes Out As Pansexual

Labels have not always been Miley Cyrus’ thing, but the singer reveals she identifies as pansexual in the latest issue of Elle UK.   “I’m very open about it – I’m pansexual,” she tells the fashion magazine. [1] Was anybody really surprised? She’s been seen in the media repeatedly in the company of both male and female partners, and by announcing her pansexuality, she is really just adding another layer to her sexual orientation. It’s actually a very honnest move on Miley Cyrus’s part and it might even be useful because it is bringing some much needed awareness to the term “sexual fluidity.” [6] “But I’m not in a relationship. I’m 22, I’m going on dates, but I change my style every two weeks, let alone who I’m with.”  It’s not the first time she make similar comments. She said previously: “It has a lot to do with being a feminist, but I’m finally O.K. with being alone. I think that’s something we have to talk about more: that you can be alone. “There are times in my life where I’ve had boyfriends or girlfriends. And there are times where I just love being with myself and don’t want to give part of myself away to someone else. [16] Last month, Cyrus opened up about the fluidity of her sexuality, saying she told her mom about feeling same-sex attractions when she was 14 years old.

I remember telling her I admire women in a different way. And she asked me what that meant. And I said, I love them. I love them like I love boys. And it was so hard for her to understand. She didn’t want me to be judged and she didn’t want me to go to hell. But she believes in me more than she believes in any god. I just asked for her to accept me. And she has. [12]

This is when she get more explicit with what she means by “pansexuality”: “I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age,” she told Paper magazine. “Everything that’s legal, I’m down with. Yo, I’m down with any adult — anyone over the age of 18 who is down to love me. I don’t relate to being boy or girl, and I don’t have to have my partner relate to boy or girl.”  [1] [15] She has most recently been linked to Victoria’s Secret model Stella Maxwell.

Eric Sasson from the Wall Street Journal refers to Miley Cyrus and other celebrities’ sexual identifications as the “rise of sexual fluidity,” but is rise really the right term to use? Sexual fluidity is not a sudden phenomenon, and scholars have been questioning gender and sexual preference for decades, with studies dating back to the 1940s and 50s. Remember the Kinsey scale? Granted even that is oversimplifying and restricting sexual preference to a linear measurement. Rather, sexuality should be viewed as a dynamic phenomenon. According to a statement in the Huffington Post, “sexual fluidity is the notion that sexuality is not fixed.” And let’s face it — people’s minds and hearts change. Evidently, according to the article, bisexuals have sex “only” with men and women. [24] Pansexuals sleep with men, women, transgendered men, transgendered women, and other in-between people who can’t figure out what they’ve got in their pants. [17] But this is confusing, because we thought “transgendered” women were the same gender as women.  Isn’t that what Bruce Jenner wants everyone to think?  This definition implies that there is somehow a difference between a woman and a man with a penis who calls himself a woman, which the media has been telling us for months are one and the same. It seems that liberals are just trying to be stylish and think up new names for things.  There are heterosexuals, and there are homosexuals.  You can call homosexuals pan, or fluid, or this, or that, but it all amounts to the same thing. [17]  Given her appetites, maybe Miley Cyrus should be called not pansexual, but a pandemic sexual, if she’s “changing her style” every two weeks.  She talks about it as casually as one would talk about eating Italian one night and Chinese the next, which shows how confused she is and why we shouldn’t teach kids in school to be confused like her. [17]  Unfortunately she really do get involved in the community.  It’s well known that Miley Cyrus is quite an ally and advocate for queer youth and that she’s involved in all kind of community projects which is common practices among traditional Hollywood commies. Her collectivist organization is called The Happy Hippie Foundation and is dedicated to providing assistance and guidance to LGBTQ youth struggling with homelessness.

Miley Cyrus is not the only celebrity figure who is bringing awareness to terms like “pansexual” and “sexual fluidity,” however. Recently Johnny Depp’s daughter, Lily-Rose Depp, came out as pansexual via her Instagram account. Lily-Rose, is only 16-years-old and is proving to be quite the ally for the LGBTQ community as well. Her new project, entitled the Self Evident Truths Project, for which the goal is, “to help young people feel good being true to themselves,” is a photographic document of 10,000 people in the USA that identify as anything other than 100 percent straight. [21]

As it currently stands, only 1 to 2 per cent of the population would describe themselves as pansexual. However, that number is steadily on the rise – especially as our attitudes towards different sexual preferences get more and more accepting. A recent YouGov poll revealed that half of young people don’t even identify as straight, which, when you think about it, is pretty staggering. [14]