As one poster above you pointed out? Anyway...
People like people that they have stuff in common with. Men have very little in common with women and vice versa.
That is a HUGE blanket statement to make and, in my opinion and my experience, completely untrue. I can't think of one single thing I enjoy that I could honestly say 'I know of no male person who also enjoys this' with the sole except of biological things like 'I enjoy having my clitoris stimulated', a man can't enjoy that just as I can't enjoy having my penis stimulated because I don't have one. Also, I can't think of a single philosophical notion, socio-political stance or principle that men and women can't share. in short, other than the above mentioned anatomical differences, there is nothing that men and women can't have in common - and the anatomical differences, when you get down to it, are few.
People are going to be more inclined to like something similar to themselves than something that is the complete opposite of them. That's true when it comes to looks, feelings, etc. etc.
Inclination isn't a rule of law - what about people who are more inclined to be attracted to 'other'?
If a man or a woman can look at anyone of their own sex and think "Hey, this person good looking," then you are already 95% there.
So? That means nothing - I think loads of women are good looking, I don't want to fuck them and some of them I have nothing in common with - we have different cultural backgrounds, different childhood experiences, different political views, different tastes in music / art / etc., different opinions on sociological issues - in common we have a few bits of anatomy. Even our hormone levels won't be the same because we're maybe different ages and one of us has had kids the other not, we're at different points in our cycles, one of us is a high testosterone producer, etc., etc.. I have far more in common with the man my age that grew up 5 doors down from me, went to the same school as me, had parents in the same socio-political circle as mine, went to all the same movies as I did, likes the same music as me, worked in a similar job, knows all the same places and people as me. And funnily enough - I don't want to fuck him either.
Liking men or women and/or wanting to do something with them sexually isn't some Mt. Everest to climb.
Not getting the relevance or sense of that at all. Please expand?
I'm not saying a guy can't like women. I'm saying that the guys who say, "Oh other guys are just so repulsive I don't want to do anything with them at all ever!" are lying to themselves. Even if it were a 99% straight and 1% gay type of thing (that is still bisexual).
But you are totally OK with the idea of a gay person, a man for the sake of argument, saying "Oh women are just so repulsive I don't want to do anything with them at all ever!"? Is that right?
Look - I believe 100% gay happens - I believe there are men that have no level of sexual attraction to women whatsoever and likewise there are women who have no level of sexual attraction to men whatsoever. I don't know whether it is completely innate or if there is some learned aspect in there too - I believe, like so many human behaviours, it is a complex combination of both and varies from person to person.
I also believe that 100% straight happens - and, as with homosexuality, it is a complex combination of innate and learned behaviours. But it does exist.
Out of the billions of people on the planet, it doesn't make sense to that say that none of them at all could possibly contain qualities that a person finds attractive in their same sex.
And yet you are perfectly willing to state that 100% gay is possible and that out of the billions of people on the planet, it does make sense to that say that none of them at all could possibly contain qualities that a person finds attractive in the opposite sex
How it is possible to believe one and not the other? It makes no sense at all.
Actually, that makes perfect sense. If you're a man and you say that you have no attraction to other men, then you also have to go around thinking that you and every other guy you come across are ugly. Read my response above.
That just doesn't follow. You don't have to think someone is ugly to not want to fuck them. Well, maybe you do - but most people don't. Most gay men I know have very well developed notions of what they find physically beautiful about women, it's just not the kind of beauty they want to stick their cocks in. And yet you are OK with them being 100% gay. A man can have clear and strong notions of male beauty and not want to stick his cock in it - but you say he's really bi and lying to himself.
Of course a man can look at another man, find him pleasing on the eye and appealing in that he wants to be / wouldn't mind being like him - it doesn't automatically follow that he wants to stick his dick in him, or suck him off, or bend over and get fucked by him, or whatever. Maybe it automatically follows for you - but you're bisexual. Don't apply the working of your own mind to everyone else's.
Sexuality to me is like a slider scale, with people being more to one side or the other but not completely to any side. 99% and 1% is perfectly possible and acceptable.
I'm sorry, AM, but what's 'acceptable' is not up to you. And, according to what you said above, a parson can be all the way over to the gay end of the 'slider scale' with 0 attraction to the opposite sex but a person cannot be all the way over to the straight side of the slider scale with 0 attraction to the same sex. Which is bullshit - you can opine all you want - it is a bullshit opinion. :smile: