But what if I'm right and the individual wants to be viewed as straight because somewhere deep inside they still think homosexuality or bisexuality is shameful?And I think that is my point. How do they the individual want to be viewed?
I recall an old episode of The Sopranos when a gang member was caught in a homosexual act (oral). The thinking was as long as he wasn't the active partner then it was OK. As soon as it was discovered he was the one doing the sucking....ohhh man ohhh man all bets were off. In some countries it totally depends on your "position" as to exactly how "gay" you are. And race is a very difficult thing to nail down as well and it too varies with country. I've had Brazilians tell me they are 'white' and I don't challenge them on that but I know they would not be "white" in the U.S. also in Brazil you can be a straight male even if you had sex with men as long as you weren't the receptive partner. These social classifications do vary and is one more right than the other? Hard to answer.
And then there's this:
elitedaily.com: Study Reveals Homophobic Men Are, In Fact, More Likely To Be Gay
Now that I think of it it actually makes sense. You see all those threads of guys asking to cam with straight guys and I've always wondered my they don't just ask if bi or gay men want to cam it just made more sense.
But if like you said if they are only looking for straight guys, to fulfill a fetish/ fantasy it would explain a lot
But what if I'm right and the individual wants to be viewed as straight because somewhere deep inside they still think homosexuality or bisexuality is shameful?
I do not think it is helpful to enable that.
But what if I'm right and the individual wants to be viewed as straight because somewhere deep inside they still think homosexuality or bisexuality is shameful?
I do not think it is helpful to enable that.
Those cultural assumptions affect us even when we are not consciously aware of it.That simply is not your call. I would half believe it if it was from someone bisexual saying that but alas it never is. It's someone that is 100% straight saying that.
I see what you're saying but it gets to a point where it is no longer flattering and is just annoying. I've had plenty of compliments Form guys on here that were gay and that's find as long as they aren't too much like @drambone2001 comments on lots of my pictures and he knows that I'm not interested in guys and his complements are completely fine. He's a perfect example of a person that respects boundaries.Here's a way of looking at it.
People like challenges. The conquest of something unattainable is an ego stroke beyond measure. They want what they can't have. And the sense of taboo is like a moth driven to the flame. It is part of our nature to look at something dangerous as potentially exciting. The Risk-Reward is huge risk, so they imagine huge reward.
It is part of the reason reverse psychology works. When you say "You can't", people rebel and say "Yes I can". Since they except a "No" from you, it isn't as much rejection as it is meeting expectation. Internal thought process: If I expect a straight man to say "No", then he isn't rejecting me, he's rejecting homosexuality.
And it isn't restricted to gay men with straight men, but straight women have been doing to gay men for a long time.
Women used to try regularly to try and "turn me straight". I was regularly hit on by women for the reason that I "obviously never had sex with a good woman". They want to make me a conquest.
And, when you think about it, it is a compliment. It means that you are exuding a strong sense of masculinity and your self-assured heterosexuality shows confidence in yourself. That shines through and makes you more attractive, even if you don't want it.
So, I stopped looking at it as an attack on my sexual identity, and started enjoying.
Now that I think of it it actually makes sense. You see all those threads of guys asking to cam with straight guys and I've always wondered my they don't just ask if bi or gay men want to cam it just made more sense.
But if like you said if they are only looking for straight guys, to fulfill a fetish/ fantasy it would explain a lot
Those cultural assumptions affect us even when we are not consciously aware of it.
This is why sociologists never rely on self-reporting. Instead of asking "Are you racist?" they ask specific questions about attitudes regarding certain races and use those responses to try and figure how racist a given population is.
When you ask a group of people "Are you atheist?" a certain irreverence of people answer yes. When you ask people if they believe in God, a much larger percentage answer no.
Self identification is not very accurate because our view of ourselves is biased and influenced by cultural attitudes.
Hatt, basically every day you walk into The Large Penis Club with your cock hanging out and the place is full of gay/bi men who are interested in cock. Why would you find their attention annoying?I see what you're saying but it gets to a point where it is no longer flattering and is just annoying. I've had plenty of compliments Form guys on here that were gay and that's find as long as they aren't too much like @drambone2001 comments on lots of my pictures and he knows that I'm not interested in guys and his complements are completely fine. He's a perfect example of a person that respects boundaries.
For the guys that see it as some challenge the "no means yes mentality" not nessisarily a good or safe one to have.
Hatt, basically every day you walk into The Large Penis Club with your cock hanging out and the place is full of gay/bi men who are interested in cock. Why would you find their attention annoying?
Hatt, basically every day you walk into The Large Penis Club with your cock hanging out and the place is full of gay/bi men who are interested in cock. Why would you find their attention annoying?
Tiger is asking people to not treat him as only one thing, which is a common frustration among multiracial people.What sexual orientation questionnaire do you use? And what have you done to authenticate it's accuracy?
And again why is it your role to invalidate their self-identification?
Tiger Woods refers to himself as cabalasian. Is it my role to dismiss that and tell him he's black?
Yes, there are a list of reasons, but this is another, that goes beyond the "challenge" theory. "If I hit on a straight guy, I don't have to worry about anything actually happening." The reason can be the fun of the chase, or it could be that he gets to be flirty, and engage that part of his sexuality, but never really be confronted by it, and what it means. That is... closet curious/bi/gay guy only hits on straight guys, so that nothing happens, and thus, he's not really curious/bi/gay, because he's never "acted" on it (disregarding the hitting on, "playfulness".)Not sure if it's fetish or fantasy, I think they look for straight men so there won't be an attraction and it will be a once in a while occurence that happens on their terms...
Tiger is asking people to not treat him as only one thing, which is a common frustration among multiracial people.
Your analogy works against you. I am acknowledging that they are more than one thing. In your analogy, the "straight" people you are talking about would be equivalent to Tiger Woods asking people to treat him as though he were Asian and only Asian. If he said this in an environment in which people are known to feel ashamed of being part black, then we would immediately suspect that some kind of racial shame was driving his insistence that we only acknowledge his Asian heritage.
The analogy may work against me to you but it doesn't to me. You're inserting extraneous variables into it. In my analogy Tiger Woods is identifying himself as a race that he has created based on all the races he feels he is. Why should I not accept that? How does it hurt me or society to reject that? Clearly it would bother him to reject it. If someone says they are straight. Should we reject that? Based on what (where is that questionnaire again)? What is the cost and the risk to society to reject that?
Everyone on is on their own personal journey to their most authentic self. Attempting to divert them onto a path you feel they should be on is wrong and will only end up creating misery for that person. They will find their own way.
Why should you accept that in this case?The analogy may work against me to you but it doesn't to me. You're inserting extraneous variables into it. In my analogy Tiger Woods is identifying himself as a race that he has created based on all the races he feels he is. Why should I not accept that? How does it hurt me or society to reject that? Clearly it would bother him to reject it. If someone says they are straight. Should we reject that? Based on what (where is that questionnaire again)? What is the cost and the risk to society to reject that?
Everyone on is on their own personal journey to their most authentic self. Attempting to divert them onto a path you feel they should be on is wrong and will only end up creating misery for that person. They will find their own way.