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Mind your language

Pansexuality has been around longer than you think

18 January 2020

9:00 AM

18 January 2020

9:00 AM

When an MP announced she was pansexual I didn’t know what she meant. Indeed I didn’t know what she could mean. Was everything the object of her sexual desires? So I asked my husband.

‘Oh, that’s what they used to call Freud’s ideas,’ he said patiently. I was surprised to find he was right.

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