Editing Sexual minority (section)

== Controversy ==
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Some LGBT people object to using the term ''sexual minorities'' and prefer the term LGBT. Reasons for these objections may vary. For example, some LGBT people feel that the term ''sexual minority'' reminds them about discrimination and about being a minority. They want to be not a distinct minority but an integral and respectable part of the society. Some other LGBT people dislike the term for being too inclusive, including [[Swinging (sexual practice)|swinger]]s, [[Polyamory|polyamorist]]s, [[BDSM]] people and other perceived "sexual strangers". These LGBT people want to make a larger distance between these sexual practices and bisexuality/homosexuality/transgender.

Some [[transgender]] and [[transsexual]] people dislike the term ''sexual minority'' for yet another reason. They argue that the phenomenon of transsexuality or transgender has nothing to do with sex, sexual practices or [[sexual orientation]], but it relates to the [[gender]], gender dysphoria and gender-variant behavior or feelings. Thus, they feel it is incorrect to classify them as "sexual minority", when, in fact, they are [[Gender variance|gender-variant]] minority.

Some [[conservatism|conservative]] groups oppose the use of the term ''sexual minority'' for completely different reasons. They think or feel that the term inherently implies some degree of legalisation or protection for those engaged in such sexual practices, much like ethnic minorities are protected from being discriminated or persecuted in modern democratic countries.

Some people dislike the term because it includes ''minority'', when the fact is that not all these categories are really about minorities but actually about ''minorised'' groups.

Others referred to as "sexual minorities" include [[sexual fetishism|fetishists]] and practitioners in of [[BDSM|BDSM (bondage, dominance, and submission)]], and [[sadism and masochism]].<ref name=Savin-Williams1/> The term may also include [[asexuality|asexuals]]<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Morrison|editor1-first=Todd G.|editor2-last=Morrison|editor2-first=Melanie A.|editor3-last=Carrigan|editor3-first=Mark A.|editor4-last=McDermott|editor4-first=Daragh T.|title=Sexual Minority Research in the New Millennium|date=2012|isbn=978-1-61209-939-2|edition=hardcover, illustrated}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Robinson|first1=B. A.|title=Prejudice against the asexual community. Violence against asexual women|url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/asexual2.htm|access-date=12 March 2015}}</ref> and people whose choice of partner or partners is atypical, such as [[Swinging (sexual practice)|swingers]],<ref>Rust, Paula C. [http://mysite.du.edu/~jdonnell/papers/nl_gay_v3.pdf "The politics of sexual identity: Sexual attraction and behavior among lesbian and bisexual women."] ''Social Problems'' 39, no. 4 (1992) p. 8 "Sexual minorities are not merely people who engage in 'deviant' sexual behavior—for example, fetishists of various types—or even those that adopt 'deviant' (sexual) identities (e.g. 'swingers')."</ref> polyamorists<ref name="Nichols, Margaret">Nichols, Margaret, and M. I. C. H. A. E. L. Shernoff. "Therapy with sexual minorities." ''Principles and practice of sex therapy'' 4 (2000): 353-367.</ref> or people in other [[Forms of nonmonogamy|nonmonogamous relationship]]s, and those who have [[age disparity in sexual relationships|partners significantly older or younger than themselves]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Altair|first1=Octaevius|title=The Violators: No Human Rights for You (Canada)|date=2011|isbn=9781257378012|page=11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eRrLAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|access-date=12 March 2015|quote=The rights of youth must be protected as well as the rights of Atheists and Sexual minorities. As a [[Homophile]] and [[Hebephilia|hebiphile]]. I engage is [''[[sic]]''] recreational sex exclusively with teenagers.}}</ref> It may also refer to people who are in a [[mixed-race relationship]].

Usually, the term ''sexual minority'' is applied only to groups who practice [[Informed consent#Sex|consensual sex]]: for example, it would be unusual to refer to [[rape|rapists]] as a sexual minority, but the term would generally include someone whose sexuality gave a major, fetishized role to consensual playing out of a [[rape fantasy]]. Also, someone who very occasionally incorporates of consensual [[kink (sexual)|kink]]<ref name="Nichols, Margaret"/> or same-sex activity into, heterosexual sex life would not usually be described as a ''sexual minority''.