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25 Feb 2009, 11:51 am

What is your orientation?

EDIT: I am just curious to compare the statistics versus the general population.

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25 Feb 2009, 11:58 am

I'm curious why gay and lesbian are listed separately, yet straight is not gender-divided.

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25 Feb 2009, 12:01 pm

MR wrote:

I'm curious why gay and lesbian are listed separately, yet straight is not gender-divided.

I didn't think of that...

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25 Feb 2009, 12:06 pm

I'm lesbian
Seriously, I'm straight.
In Europe, we just say Homosexual for Gay and Lesbians (so we put them in the same category) and heterosexual instead of Straight (which, I think, is more politically correct, why a girl and a boy together must be the straight way, the right way ?)

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25 Feb 2009, 12:07 pm

MR wrote:

I'm curious why gay and lesbian are listed separately, yet straight is not gender-divided.

Because GLBT advocacy orgs make the same distinction? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT

Your point would be more valid had Padium said "homosexual" & "Lesbian", but, in the US anyway, the cultural norm, even within the GLBT community is to differentiate Male Homosexuals from Female Homosexuals via the terms "Gay" and "Lesbian"

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25 Feb 2009, 12:17 pm

i'm an intergendered pansexual ^.^

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25 Feb 2009, 12:18 pm

Am on the hetero side of the sexuality spectrum.

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25 Feb 2009, 12:21 pm

Straight here.

What's pansexual?

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25 Feb 2009, 12:25 pm

i dont know...i guess i am just vulcan

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25 Feb 2009, 12:27 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

Straight here.

What's pansexual?

S/he likes little horned goat-footed greek demigods... :wink:

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25 Feb 2009, 12:33 pm

MrMisanthrope wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

Straight here.

What's pansexual?

S/he likes little horned goat-footed greek demigods... :wink:

It is a term referring to being attracted to all genders, even those outside the definitions of male and female.

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25 Feb 2009, 12:38 pm

Have identified variously as straight, lesbian, bi-sexual, and more recently a-sexual.

My sexuality is probably not classifiable by "object", ( "which" sex, male or female, I am into ), nor whether I am into sex at any given time, but more usefully by what sexual dynamics and situations turn me on.

There is no reason why AS sexuality should parallel the "normal"/NT classification system, seeing how differently we interact with the world in general.

"Queer" might just about cover it! :wink:

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25 Feb 2009, 12:41 pm

ouinon wrote:

There is no reason why AS sexuality should parallel the "normal"/NT classification system, seeing how differently we interact with the world in general.

"Queer" might just about cover it! :wink:

And that is why I have the option of other...

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25 Feb 2009, 12:43 pm

where's the "i don't know" option? =p

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25 Feb 2009, 12:44 pm

I am only interested in a relationship with a female, don't know why, I am just not attacted males for a relationship. I am,m for what I am interested in sexually, floating between bi and asexual. Thus I am definitly "Other"...

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25 Feb 2009, 12:49 pm

Padium wrote:

ouinon wrote:

There is no reason why AS sexuality should parallel the "normal"/NT classification system, seeing how differently we interact with the world in general. "Queer" might just about cover it! :wink:

And that is why I have the option of other...

I voted Other, but it's not very valorising though is it?

It's not very affirming to be consigned to the grab bag of odds and ends that don't fit into the accepted schema. Like a non-existence, whereas "queer" is conscious, deliberate, and interrogative/challenging.

"Other" in a poll does not encourage a vote, because it is a "negative" in a sense. The poll is loaded in favour of the normal categories, simply because they are named/concrete.

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