Has your sexuality changed?

[Spiderman]

Having sexual fantasies is not the same thing as having a sexual orientation. That sounds more like curiosity. Many heterosexuals can be at least bi curious in the sense that they may have or have had homoerotic fantasies or thoughts. I don't know if that makes them bisexual or gay to begin with though.
I mean there is a difference between curiosity, experimentation and your actual legitimate sexual orientation that you posses, just saying. I don't think you're proof of anything other than sexuality is at least somewhat fluid in human beings and that it's far more complicated than simply being gay or straight or whatever. Which was already known by the medical community for years now. But you can label yourself however you please.

If I can recall correctly, throughout the 4th and 5th grade I only derived sexual gratification from fantasies involving men. That sounds quite gay to me lol

 

[Sunstone]

I’m not really sure how it’s viewed anymore but I can certainly accept the idea of sexuality being more fluid than people tend to think.

Fluidity might be the norm for all I know, but it's personally hard for me to relate to the idea since my own sexuality seems pretty much pure heterosexual. I have very little if any sexual attraction to men so far as I can discover. But it's risky to generalize from oneself to whole populations.

 

[lostwanderingsoul]

No, this does not make you a homosexual. Young children are curious about many things. You had a curiosity about the male body. If you were curious about the sexual anatomy of dogs, would that make you a dog?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't know if mine has, or if I just become more comfortable and accepting since I quit beating myself up if I find a guy attractive. I'm definitely not nearly as much into women as I used to be though.

 

[SomeRandom]

If I can recall correctly, throughout the 4th and 5th grade I only derived sexual gratification from fantasies involving men. That sounds quite gay to me lol

Not particularly. Again, sexual fantasies is not the same as being one orientation or another. They often seem to conflict with one and other.
"Researchers at the institute believe that whether a person has homosexual fantasies or heterosexual ones cannot be used as an indication of actual sexual preference. They cite evidence showing the frequency of homosexual fantasies among heterosexuals and heterosexual ones among homosexuals. "
Taken from here.
SEXUAL FANTASIES: WHAT ARE THEIR HIDDEN MEANINGS?

I mean women can have rape fantasies, that doesn't necessarily mean those particular women want to be raped.

Again, you can label yourself whatever you want. But I'm just saying you're stretching and kind of oversimplifying sexuality just so you can place these labels upon yourself.

 

[Srivijaya]

Is there really a Eros subforum?

Does Skwim really moderate it?

 

[osgart]

The older i get the less i care about sexuality. I suppose i am asexual now. Is that strange? I am hetero. But for awhile now i just dont care about it. I have this desire for a higher love beyond all that.

Even when i was young, i gravitated to romantic relationships, but those are different to me, than sexual.

Without love, i just dont care about sex. And even further i have no desire for it now anyway.

 

[Rational Agnostic]

I don’t think it’s anything like that either. I think it’s more complex.

Possibly, but I'm inclined to believe that the majority of people are exclusively heterosexual based on my observations. Of course I don't know, but it seems to be very likely.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I am not an expert on these matters by any means, but I am very skeptical that most people are bisexual. Probably more than we think, but still well under 50% of the population if I had to guess.

No one really knows because there's still a taboo against homosexuality and bisexuality. There's a lot of straight/heterosexual identified men who have sex with men but won't come out and say it, too. "Helping out a buddy" seems to be anything but rare.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

No. I've always been pansexual, having crushes on men and women before puberty and then trans and gender variant people too when I became aware of them. A friend had me as homoerotic/sexual and heteromantic, meaning that I'm primarily attracted to the male body sexually but primarily romantically attracted to women/femininity. Makes sense to me.

 

[Rational Agnostic]

No one really knows because there's still a taboo against homosexuality and bisexuality. There's a lot of straight/heterosexual identified men who have sex with men but won't come out and say it, too. "Helping out a buddy" seems to be anything but rare.

I agree that it's probably fairly common, but still not the majority of the population.