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Aereus wrote: *Bump*


Only with women

[Pareve]

I identify as androgynous, and I find myself more drawn towards other androgynous individuals, although my tastes tend to fall more to the masculine side. I don't think what people have in their pants matters very much to me.

I think an interesting stereotype is that bisexual individuals are 'slutty,' or somesuch. Personally, I believe strongly in monogamy, and I am not particularly inclined to sexual promiscuity, because frankly, I don't want to get any diseases, and it's too emotionally taxing for me. I don't have any problem with what other people do with their bodies, but I don't think that bisexuality implies promiscuity.

I think that pansexual might be a better word for my sexual orientation, because I am attracted to gender variant individuals in addition to the male/female dichotomy, except I think pansexual sounds like someone who has sex with kitchenware.

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Pareve wrote: I identify as androgynous, and I find myself more drawn towards other androgynous individuals, although my tastes tend to fall more to the masculine side. I don't think what people have in their pants matters very much to me.

I think an interesting stereotype is that bisexual individuals are 'slutty,' or somesuch. Personally, I believe strongly in monogamy, and I am not particularly inclined to sexual promiscuity, because frankly, I don't want to get any diseases, and it's too emotionally taxing for me. I don't have any problem with what other people do with their bodies, but I don't think that bisexuality implies promiscuity.

I think that pansexual might be a better word for my sexual orientation, because I am attracted to gender variant individuals in addition to the male/female dichotomy, except I think pansexual sounds like someone who has sex with kitchenware.

It's a Pan's world.



Nice post. :tu: I feel almost exactly the same way, especially the androgyny thing.

[~*Alex*~]

Melchior wrote: ~*Alex*~ wrote: I'm a bisexual girl, with a preference for other girls, but I stick to other bisexual girls as many lesbians think we are "gamey" Lesbians, when in fact we are a separate distinct thing.

Gamy? Do you mean promiscuous?

The two major stereotypes I see bisexuals slapped with are promiscuity and denial. With women I don't know if it's denial or if it's the thought of being "fake".

Denial, many lesbians I know believe I'm just a Lesbian in denial, which is simply not true, others believe I'm a "fake" lesbian, errr um well I'm not a lesbian, nor do I claim to be so I just don't see how "fake" even applies.

Someone mentioned the whole black/white view of how society views sexuality as black/white, I think that is a correct assessment.

[~*Alex*~]

Skeptical Mystic wrote: [I have to firmly disagree. And I think this is why there's such a lack of understanding between gay people and bisexuals.

Bisexuals seem to think that we've made a choice to be gay. Apparently their flexible orientation makes it impossible for some of them to conceive that others really don't have a choice. I was never faced with making such a choice - I have simply always been strongly attracted to men and not to women. No amount of my trying to make myself like girls in order to be 'normal' was able to alter this fact.

So this idea that we're pigeon-holing ourselves or choosing an orientation just because it's supposedly somehow easier is a bunch of crap. There is very little about having an homosexual orientation that I would describe as making things easier.

If bisexuals want us to respect their flexibility of orientation, then they'd better learn to respect our mostly fixed orientation as being just a difference in how some people's sexuality works.

Trying to psychoanalyze something for which you have no personal frame of reference comes off sounding like criticism of gay people for being different, and it just pisses us off.

I do that wish heterosexuals as well, I'm bi and attraction to both genders is as natural as breathing.

The only other example I can come up with is certain people's attraction to/discounting of other races.

It doesn't make them racist, I just find some of the "hard" preferences odd.

Be it heterosexual or homosexuals, I don't expect anyone to be attracted to all people equally, I have preferences as well, they are just not absolute.

[Kt]

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