When one goes deep into defining sexuality, don't you think labeled boxes are inadequate. Box-terms like
heterosexually,
homosexuality, and
others seem to be the creation by humans to attempt to understand themselves that failed. Gender, sexuality, and other parts of life are not black or white; there is a whole spectrum of colors.
Are all males 100% male minded?
Are all heterosexuals never attracted to the same sex?
Are all androgynes 50% male, 50% female minded?People just create more and more boxes to try to capture all humanity. And sometimes people create fluid boxes in case of anomalies in people's personal definitions, like slap on a bisexual label if someone likes male 83% and females 17% of the time.
One of my history teachers told my class about a person who researched about
whether heterosexuals were truly attracted to the opposite sex only and if homosexuals were truly attracted to the same sex only. My teacher said that the researcher found this not to be true and that people varied everywhere on a
homosex-hetrosex scale, and yet
heterosexuality is accepted as the norm,
homosexual as a rare variant, and
bisexuality as a even rarer variant --despite the fact that people that are not on the ends of the scale would be labeled as
bisexual (for liking both sexes)
I think that using options like
"bisexual", "attracted to men", and "attracted to women" are archaic options that are convenient but inadequate means to find out "What is your sexual orientation?". The options are too limited for everyone to vote. Truly finding one's
true sexuality and not just a modern label used by the majority of this human society is not easy I admit
(for many reasons like religious believes, stereotyping, poor child rising, etc.)
,but if you're going to preform a poll of finite options-
at least provide more options and/or "other" option to allow everyone to let you and others know their sexual orientation.
Sorry to be such a pain in your backside Nero.
Though I wanted to say this because I never saw a site with a database that acknowledges my sexuality and others besides
hetrosex, homosex, and bisex, (even on this site about transgender).
