Is black and white (gay and straight, nothing else)? or falls along a scale?
2006-12-04 05:43:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I believe it is a scale. Why is hard to accept that some people might be in between gay and straight. If some people are born to be straight, some gay, why not the possibility of a middle ground, that some one can truly be attracted to both genders.
i believe a lot of gay people do go through a transitory phase of believing themselves to be bisexual as a way of dealing with their realization they have attraction for the same sex. But this seems to last for only a short period of time.
But people who have been out as bisexuals for a period of time should be believed that their sexuality is as valid as gay or straight and that for them its as natural or organic is someone's heterosexuality or my homosexuality.
2006-12-04 05:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by imaginary friend 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sexuality definitely falls along a scale. You can be completely gay or completely straight (i.e. one gender literally makes you want to puke when thinking about them naked), or you can have a preference in whichever direction, but a receptiveness to a degree to the other. I don't believe, as some people say, that "everyone is a little bit bisexual", because I truly believe there are those Kinsey 6's and 0's, who aren't lying to themselves or needing the right circumstance- they truly only like one or the other. However, most people have some degree of attraction to both sexes, however minute. Not to mention that I believe love to be gender-blind- i.e. you can fall in love with someone that you shouldn't, by the definition of your sexual orientation, and still be whatever you were (gay/straight), but love that one person both emotionally and physically.
I also believe that there are so many aspects to sexuality. You've got all the things that sometimes contribute to sexual orientation but don't necessarily have to, like fantasies and noticing the attractiveness of the same/other gender, porn, and so on.
There is nothing black and white about sexuality- in fact, I don't even think it's grey. I think it's a fantastic rainbow of colors!
2006-12-04 21:29:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great question!!
Sexuality definately goes along a scale, just as you suggested.
There are an endless number of points between gay... bi... hetero. Each person's sexuality is different and many straight people have certain gay inclinations and tendencies even though they may deny them or choose not act upon them. One person's sexuality can change drastically during a life time, depending on their experiences in life.
I know a few people who kind of sway back and forth! :)
2006-12-04 15:56:14 · answer #3 · answered by markalan1973 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I've always believed that there are alot of various gray areas in sexuality. Human sexuality is too complex to be black or white. I think the Kinsey scale is valid. Many people are completely heterosexual and some are completely homosexual. But there are many people who fall into various areas in the spectrum. I think most people who identify themselves as bisexual are predominately attracted to one gender but they can be turned on, attracted to and have sex with the other gender on occasion. I think it's unusual for a bisexual person to be EQUALLY attracted to both genders. I think one gender usually wins out.
2006-12-05 01:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by DawnDavenport 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every person is different. as everyones fingerprint is different.most people have had at least a thought of sexuality with another of there on sex.Yes sexuality can be considered to be falling along a grading scale I believe. with many people.
2006-12-04 13:51:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sexuality is not black and white. It's a constantly moving continuum and it's not unusual to find ones attractions change over time.
Most of us do find ourselves more pronouncedly on one side or the other, though, and thus find it easy to say "I'm gay" or "I'm straight" but it's perfectly normal for these affections to be in flux from time to time.
2006-12-04 13:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by chrisdean12 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe sexuality is just one big gray area. You may like girls and guys but like girls a little or alot more then guys. There's no specific classification for that exept just bi-sexual. Hence the one big gray area.
2006-12-04 14:12:17 · answer #7 · answered by Addicted to Crayola Paste 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no there are alot of grey areas to sexuality. You can be with someone of the same sex enjoy it but still want to be with the opposite sex
2006-12-04 13:50:09 · answer #8 · answered by ice_princess 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nothing in life is black and white.
2006-12-04 14:50:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They form endpoints of a continuum.
2006-12-04 13:50:14 · answer #10 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋