"Never say never!" Yes, we hear it over and over and yet so many who post, those who are still finding out about their own sexuality, often seem determined to fit into a slot (gay or straight) when their understanding is still diffuse and confused.
"Don't knock it until you've tried it." That bit of conventional wisdom may lead to experimentation outside the area of our lives that provides a proper context for sexual experience. That is the whole area of relationship. When one is in a relationship that has some depth of friendship and love sex can be lifted to a level where it has the capacity to inform and enrich one's whole life.
Getting to know one's self as a whole person including the sexual is important as one becomes acquainted with another person in the same depth. Sex in such a relationship of giving and receiving, of knowing and being known, lifts sex out of the arena of the mere exercise of the animal urges to the realm of the beautiful. And that is the realm of the "pure gold" and no one should settle for less.