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| TItle: Sam with Son |
Come on, admit it. You have sometimes considered your own gender with, um, shall we say “interest”. Consider erotic plasticity. A term that conveys the idea that a person’s sexual preferences are available for change or modification along the scale of totally heterosexual to completely homosexual. Somewhere in there is asexual as well. I don’t know if it on the end of the spectrum or somewhere in the middle. Don’t really care either. The point of an article (1) I just read is that women have more of this plasticity than men, and are therefore more likely to move between heterosexual and homosexual behaviors. Men, they say, are not as plastic. To which I say “bollocks”. I think more men have semi-fluid sexual preferences than research would indicate because of the extreme societal pressure to be hetero. I think more men struggle with where they are on the spectrum than one might think.
Culture has a lot to do with it. Ancient Greeks, Romans,
Arabs and others didn’t seem to have trouble switching between boys and girls,
or enjoying both at once for that matter. There is some evidence that this is
still true today in many places in the world. American men are so hung up on
being “real men” that they ignore or deny the role of the sexuality spectrum in
their lives or even that it exists.
The question the article raised was “Why are there gay
women?” The answer is genetics and erotic plasticity. The answer for men, I
believe, is the same. And I think we are all erotically plastic. Men seem to
enjoy the “money shot” as much as women. Image: http://64.13.224.56/calendar/LA/upload/9954_Sam-with-Songweb.jpg
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