SpaceCase wrote:
I think that the reason why people can't figure out thier sexuality is that they are in denial.Like,as in they don't want to believe that they are bisexual or homosexual so they keep trying to "figure it out" just to "make sure".Or atleast,that's just my opinion.
I'm sure that's what it is some of the time, but it can also be complicated. When I was growing up, I knew that I liked both guys and girls, but I liked girls a lot more. Did that mean I was bisexual? Or even gay? I was only ten when I first started wondering, and of course I didn't know enough to be rational about it.
Today I call myself bisexual, but I still wonder if that's the right label, since my attraction is probably around 80% to women and 20% to men.
Kinsey (the well-known sex researcher) invented a scale for this sort of thing:
Quote:
0 - Exclusively heterosexual
1 - Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual
2 - Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual
3 - Equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 - Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual
5 - Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual
6 - Exclusively homosexual
I think that's a good idea. A lot of people further divide the scale into one number for attraction, and another for behavior (i.e. whether you would act on your attraction under the right circumstances).
So I guess I would be a Kinsey 1/2. 1 because my attraction to guys is limited, and 2 because I've had a fair amount of hot guy/guy action, since it's so easy to get.
Jeremy