LadyNTrainer -> RE: "FORCED" bi (6/10/2010 2:11:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Glasgow How can a person be only situationally bisexual? I was under the opinion that bisexuality is something you are. I'm white, which doesn't change according to the situation. I'm heterosexual, which also does not change according to the situation - whether or not I'm engaging in sweaty acts with another woman. Pretty easily. One of my partners is flat out pansexual, Kinsey dead middle, and he's that way all the time. My other partner fits more into the heteroflexible category, where he's basically straight but okay with limited and mostly nonsexual contact with men during play. I have had a situationally bisexual partner who enjoyed being sexual with other men when I was involved (and no, he didn't need to be "forced"), but he was not at all interested in dating men or playing with men alone. Alas, because I did my best to encourage him in that direction. So I'd consider that being situationally bisexual rather than fully bisexual. quote:
As long as we're all complaining, I really don't like the assumption that people who are bi- or pansexual are more "enlightened" than everyone else. Are you more enlightened than I just because I only like dick? I have very close friendships with both men and women, straight, bi, gay, whatever. The fact that I don't want to om-nom their genitals does not make me less enlightened than anyone else. If I refused to be friends with a homosexual - that would make me less enlightened. Agreed. I don't see bisexuals as automatically more enlightened than anyone else, but if they're free and proud about it, then I do admire them for coming to terms with an unpopular and sometimes invisible sexual orientation. Coming to comfortable terms with your sexual orientation is pretty enlightening, even if that orientation is straight. When I am talking about my primary partner specifically, I do think he has an admirably enlightened view on how to relate to people socially and personally. Being pansexual probably did contribute to his ability to get to the point where he doesn't treat men or women or transpeople any differently or think of them differently, but it's not the only reason.
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