Why do some people seem to believe that everyone is innately bisexual? I've seen this claim every now and then online, and apparently some prominent bisexuals (e.g. Gore Vidal, Billie Joe Armstrong) believe(d) it. I've even heard it twice IRL; the second time, a lesbian acquaintance of mine said something along the lines of "I'm gay enough that I know straight people aren't lying about being straight", which I concurred with in my head (although I said nothing). Personally, I'm a gay guy, or at least that's what I call myself, but there have been a few rare instances where I briefly wondered whether I actually am attracted to women, only minimally and/or while repressing it, and although I have always ultimately concluded that I am just gay, it does make me think about the idea that everyone is actually just at some point or another on a spectrum of bisexuality. That being said, it still seems highly improbable to me. What are your thoughts?
unless you believe in some very strict sexual determinism, people have the "material conditions" to be bisexual: there is no physical obstacle stopping anyone from being bisexual. so sexual orientation is always, to some extent, a self-imposed restraint
for example, when a sharpie marker goes up my ass, my prostate doesn't care about the genitals or even the identity of the person pushing the marker
That's not really "being" bisexual though, since you can engage in sexual behavior with someone without being attracted to them. Anyone is free to "act" bisexual, but it doesn't necessarily make them bisexual in orientation, no?
these kinds of confusion occur because many, perhaps most people, have a tendency to reify language into a perfect and interchangeable analog to reality. they think the word is what the thing is and vice versa. instead of treating language as merely a tool with which to think and study and describe and understand the world, they use it as a substitute for thought itself and offload all of their cognition onto the words which they simply accept at face value without ever questioning or even considering their true meaning, or understanding that they are merely arrows or signposts and not the destination itself.
There's a scale for a reason. If you include the definition of "bisexual" to include anybody who experiences attraction of any degree to both sexes, then a lot of people who identify as straight or gay and live their lives according to those labels would probably qualify. However I don't think everybody would, and a lot of those that do would probably be pretty restricted in their tastes. The classic example of course is a guy that likes twinks but is otherwise straight.
>Why do some people seem to believe that everyone is innately bisexual?
Wrong question. The correct question wouldbe: why do bisexuals, especially repressing ones, so often engage in sexual solipcism, i. e. the projection of their entire sexuality onto all of humanity when they are part of a sexual minority that should know better.
>>10732Because empathy is an imperfect ability and picturing other people's mental process will always come with biases from your own experience.
>>10733This is not empathy, this is narcissism. You are not picturing others, you are literally projecting yourself onto them. The question is why is this behavior so common among bisexuals who should know better because after all they themselves should be, as a sexual minority in a heteronormative society, have at least some experience with having another sexual orientation, the dominante one, projected onto them.
Certain queer people huff copium that secretly they're the actual dominant sexuality and three quarters of population just don't realise it.
>>10723I have 0 nothing no sexual attraction towards anything feminine so answering you, no
You know, I used to think I was bisexual. Then I realised it was just comphet. But I do think it is best to see it as a spectrum.
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