No- I think that you are likely a 'super taster' which means that your genes give you a taste receptor on your tongue that others do not have, that makes certain kinds of food taste more metallic and so, unappetizing.
But , then, this is not about what you like or prefer..... you absolutely WOULD eat broccoli, if you were hungry enough.
The facts are the facts.
No one likes whiskey when they first taste it.
yet science shows that IF broccoli gave you an endorphin rush when you ate it... you could LEARN to like the taste in the exact same way that people LEARN to like the taste of whiskey.
Every prison and pirate ship proves that ANY man can learn to have sex with other guys, if he's gone long enough without.
Every story of sheep and goat herders fucking their charges proves that males are fundamentally pansexual and will fuck anything - even a melon- if that's the only thing they can get at.
So- you can go ahead and believe what you were indoctrinated to believe. Or, you can look at the evidence that proves that belief to be inaccurate.
I was raised to believe the same thing. But my introduction to sexuality pretty much proved that sex feels good, no matter who its with.
I still far rather prefer women. They taste far better to my tongue and my touch than the broccoli that is men.
And this makes perfect genetic sense... that most men, under most circumstances, would rather have sex with a woman.
But men in isolation with only men prove thru all human history that their hunger can make even broccoli palatable.
Is this discussion about what I
am, or what I could be in a limited set of circumstances? If I say "I like carrots and I don't like broccoli", does that mean I always liked carrots? Does it mean I will never like broccoli? Does it mean that "societal pressures and fears" are the primary influence on any of that?
I mark myself 99% straight. I do not think sexual preferences are necessarily rigid over time. But when I say "I am straight" it means at this point in time, I am attracted to women and not to men.
You're assuming some kind of societal peer pressure as responsible for that which isn't there, for myself, and for all straight men. If I tell you there isn't one, then you will just blindly reply that there is and I can't see it because I'm too brainwashed or some other ridiculousness.
I don't have any issues around the thoughts of being with a man except that I haven't encountered a man who I want to be intimate with. I leave complete room for the possibility to happen, but it doesn't. In light of the fact that it's not happened, it would be silly to refer to myself as bisexual since that communicates an orientation which really doesn't align with my preferences.
But you could take me to a deprogramming course and try to unwire whatever societal pressure you think is behind this, and at the end you wouldn't be able to talk me into liking men any more than you could talk me into finding a woman attractive who I did not find attractive.
I am what I am and I likes what I likes.
P.S. Not a super taster. Kind of the opposite... I have a pretty childish palate. I like my steaks medium-well and have been known to eat them with ketchup. Heresy!
I had a friend who could pick out all the individual herbs that were in a given dish. He was actually more of a super-smeller. That's not me though.
