LinnaeusCat wrote:
I fell in love with someone wonderful who happens to be male. If he were female (or some combination of the two) I highly doubt it would make a difference.
Me too. That exactly. I am head over heels in love with him and have been for 18 months but that does not make me straight - I am bi/pansexual all the way. To look at, you'd think I was a lesbian (short hair, baggy trousers, often to be found with my head inside a computer) and I love surprising people by telling them about my gorgeous male partner. We have a play around sometimes on a weekend with other wayward men and women ... tee hee!
The people who I see in the street and fancy are always the androgenous ones. If I can't tell if someone's a girl or a boy then they're bound to give me a hard-on (that's a gender-neutral sense of the term). Women with lived-in-looking faces that are creased and lined from a life of expressions are attractive to me. I think women are trained to keep their faces flat because that is deemed to be beautiful. But a dynamic, expressive face is what is beautiful to me (even if I can't always understand it's subtle implications). It is often only the androgynous women who have any lines, even at 40.