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The idea of the pan ring
Pan rings build upon the concept of ace rings: black rings worn on the middle finger of the right hand to represent the absence of sexual attraction, a popular trend in asexual culture. Pan rings are worn on the same finger, but to highlight the nature of pansexuality, they are clear, translucent, or white instead of black - symbolically representing the potentiality of attraction towards all genders with the translucency or the color white encapsulating all colours of the spectrum.
Regarding a previous post that proposed the idea of white pan rings, many people were commenting about white rings being a trend in aromantic culture - very truthfully. There have been a lot of discussions about it in the recent years and it is agreed that a white ring worn on the middle finger of the left hand is the representation of the person being aromantic. Although an aro ring and a pan ring would be worn on different hands, distinguishing them from each other certainly will be beneficial, for it would prevent the confusion the two separate trends.
The glass ring
This is why the clear pan ring is a transparent or translucent ring of glass: an idea that is instead free of misunderstanding and therefore solely belonging to pansexual culture. The glass rings can also be in the pan pride colors, optionally.
Other materials and DIY options
Rings from silvery metals with engravings or imprints such as “love” or “love is love” (along pan symbols) are too, wonderful options, that are more customisable to everyone’s individual concepts and designs. Ceramic or porcelain rings can still be used as pan rings, but in order to distinguish them from aro rings, they should have an engraving or imprint that will do so. A pride flag on the ring, or multiple colored rings forming the pride flag are just as great.
Pan rings are of course individually customisable, we should let everybody’s own creativity set their ring unique. Blank ceramic rings can be bought if you prefer to create your own designs.
TL;DR.: Pan rings in pansexual culture are clear or translucent rings of glass, symbolically representing the potentiality of attraction to all genders (in comparison with the black ace ring implying the absence of attraction), that are worn on the middle finger of the right hand. Optionally, silvery metal rings with engravings (e.g. pan symbols, "love" or "love is love"), or white ceramic rings with imprints can be worn as pan rings wonderfully too. Pan pride-colored rings or sets of rings of course qualify just as well.
Ideas of where to buy pan rings:
Clear glass ring
Translucent glass ring
Metallic ring with customisable engraving
Silver ring with customisable engraving
White ceramic ring with custom text
Blank ceramic ring (if you want to go DIY)
Pride color ring
Pride color ring
Submitted December 25, 2019 at 06:03PM by peculiar_polarbear https://ift.tt/35XrjSj
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