When I say I chose to be straight, I simply mean I have had no desire to explore the other avenues of sexual orientatation.
Why do you think this was? I ask because I'm curious as to whether you can then see this from my perspective as a gay man. That I too had no desire to explore the other avenues of sexual orientation. I knew I liked men. And can honestly say I never thought anything more about it other than when "some folks" tried to make me feel lesser about myself because I was gay. Didn't work, lol.
With that, every person has the option to test a different orientation.
In theory, I would agree.
Realistically? Not so much. Because most folks know they are straight. Or gay. And as such, have no need/desire to "test a different orientation".
Doesn't mean there are not people who are bi-sexual. Able to have relationships (mainly sexual based on those bi-sexuals I've known) with a man or a woman or maybe both at the same time.
However, these folks will usually choose one sex over another IF they decide to settle down into a relationship that's just not sexual. YMMV
An athelete may excel in a sport and may have the ability to do so in another. Even if he loves that sport, he doesnt know if he'll get the same feeling from another. It's a choice to try it and chance new euphoria, or feel absolute disgust with it.
While I can appreciate what you are saying here, the feelings one gets on an athletic field I would posit do not compare to the feelings one gets sexually. This Member's reflections of his experience seem to reflect what most people experience, whether it be gay or straight sex:
I remember after my first gay experience some shock at how strongly I had responded, and a strong motivation for more of the same. It wasn't until I had gone back on a daily basis for a couple of weeks and spent all my waking hours thinking about what we had been doing that I realised that my sexual interest in men was stronger than my interest in women and wasn't going away.
You can flip the genders in that sentence I bolded and perhaps that might apply to you: your sexual interest is strong for women, nothing for men.
I think you people have experimented with new orientation to find that euphoric feeling they havent obtained with those of the orientation they felt was their natural one. This is obviously a theory comparison.
You people?!? That smacks of you perhaps not being as accepting of gay folks as you might think yourself to be.
I didn't experiment. And I don't know of any gay person I know well enough to have discussed our coming out journeys would agree they were experimenting.
Like you always knowing you were into women, we too felt that we always knew we were into men.
It's just that some gay folks, due to a number of factors, may try and have that heterosexual life that's been ingrained in them to be the only thing that's "normal".
Some are able to embrace their authentic selves and live their true lives. Sadly, others are not and choose to marry and live their less than truthful lives as straight.
And some are successful at keeping their gay urges at bay; sadly many are not and if/when they are discovered, marriages crumble and many lives are affected. Because someone chose to live a lie.