<p>Emerging adult women have been declaring a plurisexual (i.e., bisexual or pansexual) identity in recent surveys at increasing rates. The current study used a life course perspective to investigate a sample of female college students (<i>N</i> = 1558) who indicated on an anonymous survey that they considered themselves to be heterosexual, bisexual, or pansexual. The three sexual identity groups were compared across various background characteristics, relationship intentions, and perspectives on love and sex to further understanding contributing factors to these identification declarations. On a bivariate level, the pansexual group was more likely than the bisexual group to have divorced parents, to have experienced sexual pressure from a stranger, to desire marriage, to feel good about having a partner engage in other emotional/sexual relationships, to be less happy in their relationship with their mother, to be less willing to hook up with a stranger, to believe in one true love, and to believe that love solves all problems in a relationship. The two plurisexual groups were similarly different from the heterosexual group for most variables (e.g., more difficult background experiences, lesser conventional relationship intentions, fewer romantic beliefs about love than the heterosexual group). A multinomial logistic regression confirmed the overall nature of the bivariate analyses though fewer differences were statistically significant, especially between the bisexual and pansexual groups. Results suggest that life course trajectories related to sexual identities and their meaning can help distinguish the sexual identities contemporary emerging adult women declare for themselves.</p>