Heteroflexible was the fastest growing sexuality of 2025 – this is what it means
The rise in people being heteroflexible shows sexuality is increasingly dynamic. (Alina Rudya/Bell Collective)
The rise in people being heteroflexible shows sexuality is increasingly dynamic. (Alina Rudya/Bell Collective)
Heteroflexible was the fastest growing sexuality of the 2025, according to a dating app’s data.
Data released by Feeld – a dating app for the curious, open-minded individuals – has revealed that its members’ fastest growing sexuality of 2025 was being heteroflexible.
The app shared that the sexuality was the fastest-growing, up 193 per cent, with millennials constituting almost two thirds (65 per cent) of total heteroflexible members.
Gen X followed behind at 18 per cent, while Gen X made up 15.5 per cent of the growth.
According to the data, switching between heteroflexible and straight is one of the most common sexuality shifts.
What does hetroflexible mean?
The term heteroflexible refers to someone who is primarily attracted to the opposite gender but who can also have attraction to, or openness toward, same-gender experiences.
In other words, people who identify as hetroflexible are mostly straight, with some sexual fluidity. Heteroflexibility is often described as a subcategory of bisexuality, which means you’re attracted to both men and women.
Dr Luke Brunning, lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds, said of the findings: “For some, heteroflexible will describe accurately how they experience attraction or typically behave. For others, it might be more of a promise-to-self, something they want to look into further, explore, or which they hope they will be in a position to experience in the future.”
Dr Brunning added that the flexibility could be viewed “negatively” as a “deviation” from the heterosexual standard, especially for men who may “suffer extensive bi-erasure” or be “unable to accept they are ‘actually gay’”.
He added: “For others, perhaps those firmly within the queer community, heteroflexibility might be viewed with suspicion, as indicative of a reticence to be open about someone’s ‘true’ bisexuality, for example, or as evidence of internalised homophobia.”
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