I remember a saying “every female is a few drinks away from a girl on girl encounter.”
That’s just a male fantasy that they love to project onto all women and i’m so fucking sick of it. Just like the ‘everyone loves boobs’ garbage.
Straight woman here. I’m sorry but boobs are fantastic and I’ve never met another girl who disagreed.
There’s sometimes a performative aspect to it that isn’t quite the same thing as attraction. Though I suppose it depends how “straightness” is being defined?
I think the cultural concept of straightness is just getting some of the starch taken out of it. There’s more room for ambiguity in human behavior than a lot of people realize.
Globally, 7% say they are only or mostly attracted to the same sex, 4% equally to both sexes, 83% only to the opposite sex and 6% don’t know or prefer not to say.
So I was being generous with the 20%.
As other people have pointed out, yes, there is a cultural influence, in that there are a lot of places where you can’t say that you have any attraction to same-sex people. Iran, for instance, or portion of Africa, where simply being gay is punishable by death. In more permissive countries, you’re going to see more people admitting what the Kinsey report said >50 years ago: many/most people are not entirely, 100% straight, and the sexuality exists on a spectrum.
Lol completely ignores how many people live in countries where saying yes on a survey like this is dangerous.
Oh, and the college LGBT thing, started back in 2014: https://hechingerreport.org/colleges-see-gay-students-new-market/
You do know how in many countries saying “yes” to that question is a risk to your life, right?
Covered in the study I linked. Of the ones surveyed, most were in LGBTQ supportive nations.
And yet they show lesbians as a thumbnail/front picture. It’s obvious, that todays society clearly favours women’s bisexuality right out of sexual desires and (yes of course) the liberation of women. Bisexuality of Man are still beeing held back in society’s discourse, not just because it’s mainly without „general“ sexual desire by the ruling class which also reproduces its patriarchal world believes, but because todays feminism is all about empowering only women to fight against this and not empowering men to fight against the system that is also suppressing them. It’s true, that we need what current feminism is doing right now more then ever, but I want to live in a future where boys are also getting good grades in schools and have the same sexual freedom based on cultural expressions as women have, without being the only sex that lives less long and lies in war trenches.
I mean, yes…? That’s the way sexuality works. Very few people are completely straight or completely gay. A fantastic example is prison; you put a bunch of guys in prison, and most of them are going to be having sex with other men, at least sometimes. It’s not that they’re not straight in any normal sense, but that the overall sex drive is strong enough to overcome gender preferences.
It’s just not a big deal. Let people be people, as long as everyone involved is consenting, and they aren’t causing direct, immediate harm to other people.
The big deal is that kids are comfortable saying as such. Heteronormativity is still very much the norm
Heteronormativity is still very much the norm
Maybe for 30+. It absolutely is not the norm for younger generations. Heck, at that age no one wants to be normal in any case: it’s seen as boring and potentially problematic. All this is to say that I think a lot more people say they are sexually fluid than are actively seeking non-hetero relationships.
I think this is one thing that evolves with age rather than being generational. In the 90s a lot of teens and early college students identified very publicly as bi. A few years later, most of the people I knew settled into one way or the other as their hormones came down to earth and their social status settled.
And water is wet. Next.
