Symbiotic people are attracted to the energy they share with each other.

The more people the better.

A recent study conducted by researchers at Seattle University has revealed a new sexual behavior called “symbiotic sex.” It is described as “an attraction to the energy, multidimensionality, and power shared between people in relationships,” according to the recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

People who identify with this feeling resonate with the energy shared between existing partners. The study showed that a large number of participants felt romantically and sexually attracted to the “synergy” of a third person.

This dynamic can often be seen in TV shows and movies like “Tiger King,” “Gossip Girl” and “The Challenger,” which features a love triangle between actors Zendaya, Mike Feaster and Josh O’Connor.

Dr. Sally Johnston, adjunct professor of anthropology and sociology, who conducted the study, believes sexual desire runs deeper than we know.

“We need to rethink the nature of human attraction and desire as being just a one-on-one experience,” she said.

Johnson went a step further and tried to understand the concept of “unicorns” in polyamorous relationships.

VeryWellMind elaborates that a unicorn is “someone who has sex with their partner but does not participate in other aspects of the relationship.”

Despite the sexual benefits, Johnson noted that third parties in these relationships were treated unfairly and became objectified and excluded.

She noticed these signs in data from the Happiness Study, which surveyed 373 participants on their sex and gender identity.

Most of the survey results skew toward middle-class college-educated white people, more than 90% of whom identify as queer and 87.5% say they are polyamorous.

Johnson added: “All kinds of people experience symbiotic attraction, being drawn to the energy, multidimensionality and power that people in relationships share.”

She found 145 reports in which participants said they felt an attraction to couples rather than individuals in romantic relationships.

Study participant Hayden admitted that she found the “cohesiveness” between couples attractive.

“You feel their energy, their attraction to each other… there’s an interplay between the couple,” she revealed.

Another respondent, Saged, expressed the appeal of symbiotic relationships.

“I just want to be the center of the relationship, too. I want to be involved in the relationship, too…I really think my ideal relationship would probably be me and a couple,” Sage said.

Most symbiotes describe themselves as extroverts who crave lots of intimacy, care, and attention and are unlikely to be jealous.

Eden, who also identifies as a symbiotic sexuality, also participated in the survey and shared her thoughts on emerging sexualities.

“I crave to be desired, I seek a lot of validation, a lot of approval, and when there are multiple people like that, I feel like, oh, yeah, yeah, I’m doing the right thing,” Eden confessed.

Some participants who identified as queer and sexually open indicated that they were primarily attracted to queer people and non-heterosexual couples.

Meanwhile, as research continues, Johnson plans to conduct more studies on this relationship dynamic to better understand the impact of this evolving gender identity on mental health and relationship satisfaction.

She added: “I hope this research will reduce stigma within both the monogamous and non-monogamous communities and expand the conceptualization of desire in sexuality research.”