Figure · Applied Exercise

Orientation Categories in Practice

Five categories, three columns. This exercise works through them one column at a time.

How this works

Three rounds. The first matches each orientation to its defining pattern of attraction, the second to the clinical considerations it carries, the third to the error clinicians most commonly make with it. The definitions are the easy round.

Estimated time to complete this exercise: 10 minutes

1Definitions
2Considerations
3Errors
4Close

Round 1 of 3

Match each orientation to its defining pattern of attraction.

Click a statement to pick it up, then click the orientation it belongs to. Click a filled row to send its statement back. One submission per round.

Bisexual
Pansexual
Asexual
Graysexual
Demisexual

References

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