[ **up: [[Humans--Sexual behaviour]]** ] --- # Sexual orientation > The direction of an individual’s sexual attraction towards other individuals of the same, opposite, or multiple sexes; commonly understood to be biologically and physiologically dictated, rather than sociologically determined.[^1] [[2024-0727. To know someone's sexual orientation is to understand the shape of their sexual attractions; it says little about their desire, arousal, or activity.|'To know that someone is asexual is to understand the shape of their sexual attractions; it’s not to know whether they have sexual desire, or have sex.']][^2] --- - [[Allosexuality]] - [[Asexuality]] - [[Bisexuality]] - [[Demisexuality]] [^1]: ‘Sexual orientation’, *[['Homosaurus - An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary' (website)|Homosaurus: An International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary]]*, updated 24 September 2021, https://homosaurus.org/v2/sexualOrientation. [^2]: Natasha McKeever and Luke Brunning, ‘[[McKeever & Brunning. ‘Being asexual’, 2019.|Being asexual]]’, *Aeon*, 19 November 2019, https://aeon.co/essays/what-being-asexual-or-aromantic-tells-us-about-sex-and-romance.