Miley Cyrus: I'm pansexual, 'change my style every two weeks'

With one word, Miley Cyrus deepened her individuality — and her dating pool.
“I’m pansexual,” the 22-year-old singer says in the October issue of Elle UK, on sale Thursday.
The term covers the sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity. In other words, the button- and tongue-pushing pop queen’s bedroom comes with an all-access pass.
“Calling oneself pansexual is opening up to every human possibility,” says Jennifer Bass, communications director at the Kinsey Institute, a longtime temple of sex research, in Bloomington, Ind.
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 Miley Cyrus speaks onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards held at Microsoft Theater on August 30, 2015 in Los Angeles.

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Miley Cyrus speaks onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards held at Microsoft Theater on August 30, 2015 in Los Angeles.

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“It’s an attempt to be inclusive and to step outside of conventional categories people are put into,” she adds.
And the fearless Twerking Girl said as much in a Paper mag interview, without using the actual term “pansexual.”
The word, which is relatively under-the-radar if you’re not a sex researcher, sends a message as clear and direct as a wrecking ball. While bisexuality suggests two genders, Cyrus’s latest personal label of choice is gender-blind.
Are you straight? Gay? Bi? Questioning? Transitioning? Let’s party.

Actor Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus arrive at the premiere of Touchstone Picture's "The Last Song" in 2010.

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Cyrus is open to men (like hunky actor and ex-fiance Liam Hemsworth). And women (like stunning model Stella Maxwell, who she’s romanced). As well as transgender men and women who may not even identify as male or female (stay tuned). Bottom line: Former Disney star joneses for everyone.
And, yes, pansexuality is a thing. There’s even a flag for it — horizontal stripes in pink, yellow and blue — which has been waved since about 2010.

The label isn’t new, but in the age of the Millenial, in which individuality looms XXL, it’s coming out of the shadows.

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While there are no hard statistics on pansexuality, experts say a broad ballpark figure could be between 1 and 2 percent of the general population.
“It would be a small portion of those who might have thought of themselves as bisexual at one time,” says Virginia psychologist and certified sex therapist Geoffrey Michaelson.
“A pansexual might think the term bisexual is limiting and not inclusive of their ability to have love for and sex with a transman or transfemale. They feel open to all.”

Pansexual flag

Like Cyrus. The pop performer joins Texas legislator Mary Gonzalez, 32, who traded her bisexual label for a pansexual one three years ago.
“As I started to recognize the gender spectrum and dated along the gender spectrum, I was searching for words that connected to that reality, for words that embraced the spectrum,” Gonzalez explained in 2012.

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Still, it’s a bold declaration by Cyrus, who’s never been shy about discussing her own sexuality going every which way.

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“I am literally open to every single thing that is consenting and doesn’t involve an animal and everyone is of age,” she said in the summer issue of Paper, out a couple months ago.

“Everything that’s legal, I’m down with,” she added. “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.”

In Elle UK, Cyrus says that she’s “very open” to her pansexuality. “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.”

Indeed, change is a constant for one-time “Hannah Montana” star who emceed Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards in a parade of freewheeling — and at times freakish — outfits that screamed anything goes. Make that, everything goes.

Stella Maxwell and Miley Cyrus. Image from Miley Cyrus instagram page.

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“What Miley’s saying is, ‘Don’t pigeonhole me. I’m an individual,’” Michaelson says. “That’s part of her fantastic appeal as a person and as a human being. She’s thinking outside of categories and bringing her individuality to the sexual arena.

“That’s pretty good for our tolerance and our compassion toward people who are different from us,” he adds. “Under it all, Miley’s simply saying, ‘I’m me.’”

And she used the VMAs as a platform for others who just want to be themselves. She ended the broadcast with a performance of her new song “Dooo It!” that was introduced by a group of transgender young people.

And to anyone who thinks Cyrus’ all-inclusive sexual appetite amounts to gluttony, Michaelson says, “She’s not being greedy. She’s just being Miley.”