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Gringo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:06 PM
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Poll question: How Straight/Gay are you?
How Straight/Gay are you?
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:08 PM
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1. A little bit of the two highest on hetero
I dont mind the thought of two same sexed people fucking but its not something I would do. Sigh I sure could use a girlfriend right now.
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alwynsw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:03 PM
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35. You have five
Ms Thumb and her four daughters.

I couldn't resist that little walk down my adolescent euphemism memory lane. According to my grandfather, his girls were Mabel, Maude, Blanche, Pansy, and Old Ms. Willet. Don't ask me where those came from.
But then, he was born before the automobile, but slightly after electric lights.
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blackcat77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:09 PM
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2. You left out an option...
I'm totally straight, but thinking about gay sex doesn't "gross me out," it's just not there at all. I simply cannot even imagine being sexually attracted to another man, so it's a non-issue for me.

That's why I'm sort of suspicious when the radical anti-gay people get so emotional about the issue -- it makes me think that there must be some tickle in their subconscious or it wouldn't bother them so much.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:11 PM
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3. Thats what I meant
Yeah, I know what you mean. :eyes: some people, are just odd.
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Gringo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:12 PM
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4. Option number 2 would've been okay
Doesn't mean you find it extremely arousing, just that you've thought of it (without getting really grossed out.)

I hate to make a poll more complicated than necessary. I'm just wondering how we compare to the Kinsey scale.
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LiberalVoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:13 PM
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5. DITTO!
DITTO, DITTO, DITTO!

I have alot of Gay friends...Being that im a male vocalist in a show with alot of male dancers. Most of which are gay. I actually can relate more with homosexual men then I can in most cases with hetero men. I got picked on alot in school so alot of them can relate pretty easily.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:14 PM
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7. agree, 'gross out' was unnecessary

i have never had a sexual attraction to women. it doesn't gross me out, it's just not something I can imagine.
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Piperay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 07:30 PM
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30. Same here
I am fine thinking about others but for myself am not attracted in the least to another woman.
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alwynsw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:08 PM
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36. Gross out is appropriate for me.
I can't even kiss my wife after a BJ. I know, it's almost a phobia. Go figure, some of my closest friends are gay - both sexes. They and their partners often "sleep over" if the liquor cabinet's been open for a while and that doesn't bother me a bit. Bob and Bill ( not their real names) even invited me to watch once. I passed on the invitation.

It's just not for me in any form. BUT I LOVE WIMMENS!!!!!!!!!!
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:48 PM
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27. Fred Phelps must be really, really gay!
as I always suspected!
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 08:06 PM
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31. I know die-hard homophobes who came out later on
Denial is not just a river in Egypt and Defense is not just a thing in the yard.

If you get really emotional about gays, then there has to be something bothering you deep down like the fear of being gay or a pussy.

That includes Fred Phelps, but maybe not Eminem.
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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:09 PM
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37. Bingo!!
My brother and his partner have been together for 22 years and are two of the finest men I know. My wife and I are proud to have our two sons call both of them "Uncle". I scrupulously avoid thinking about what they do in the sack.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:13 PM
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6. Pretty straight, but I was VERY confused for much of my adolescence.
Even though I was attracted to girls from the get-go, I would occasionally have homosexual thoughts up until I was 16 or so, then they just stopped. The interest suddenly went away. I think it was more boyhood curiosity than anything.

Even so today, I'm only about 95% sure I'm straight, only because it seems my interest in women is gone. My only girlfriend ever in my life dumped me like a shit after thanksgiving dinner (the day after Valentines Day, no less), and I was rejected countless times in high school. I'm wondering if I've developed an aversion to females. I haven't been interested at all in starting a new relationship after my ex-girlfriend dumped me.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:26 PM
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13. Dude youre an Aspie like me
I never have felt attracted to guys, always to girls, but my problem is that I lack the courage to say Hi I am John and I think you're a nice girl, would you like to go out with me sometime. I don't have that. It's like I am afraid of girls :cry:, I don't do good face to face, so I come out much better online than I am in life. Sigh. I'll find that special girl someday I hope. I am sorry about your only girl northwest.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:29 PM
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14. Well, I was pretty eager about girls from about 17 until I got dumped.
Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 03:29 PM by northwest
What she did sucked the life outta me. I haven't really had any interest in relationships since, and that was almost a year ago.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:53 PM
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19. I still do
I aint never had a relationship really.
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:55 PM
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21. To my heartbroken pal...
I know. I've been there. We all have---gay, straight, young, old. Nothing hurts worse than a broken heart. BUT---and here's the good news---you WILL recover. You'll move on. To men, to women? Who knows? It don't matter! What matters is that you know you're a good person, with lots to offer. At your young age, maybe you think this girl was THE ONE. And she was---for that time. But one thing I've discovered about the world: There are so many incredible people out there for you, and not just one, not just ten, not just a thousand but there are literally tens of thousands of potential lovers out there for you, any one of whom can make you feel better than this heart-breaker ever did. Maybe they don't even live in this country, or speak this language.

Get out there and explore. That's what youth is all about.Take chances. My only ( and very few) regrets in life concern not what I did do but what I didn't do.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 05:55 PM
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29. Yeah, the whole dating & romance thing ain't easy for us Aspies.
My last relationship ended pretty badly, and now I'm not so sure I WANT another one...the whole dating thing seems more trouble than it's really worth at this point, and in my experience usually seems to end badly, because, thanks to the AS, I can be kind of hard for a "normal" person to get along with or understand...which doesn't really help to facilitate open communication...I do better online than in person, too. I seem to be able to express myself more clearly in writing than in person, probably because that whole body language thing isn't there...I tend not to get other peoples' body language, OR to make eye contact when speaking to someone...which a lot of people seem to find disconcerting...sometimes I wonder if I'd have an easier time of it were I to meet a female Aspie, but...there aren't that many. Ah, well.
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alwynsw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:12 PM
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38. Is "no" going to kill you?
Edited on Tue Dec-16-03 09:13 PM by alwynsw
They can kill you (for asking), but they can't eat ya. That's against the law. (Props to Audie Murphy)

Alright you pervs! I was referring to cannibalism.

edited to close my parenthesis
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:16 PM
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8. I'm curious about the need for this pole, er, poll...
It just seems so random.
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LiberalVoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:21 PM
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9. ROFL!
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Gringo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:22 PM
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11. It's not random
It's all part of my plot to seduce all lounge lizards and then lure them to my lair of depravity.

Or something like that.

Really, I just make my polls off the top of my head. Whatever pops in there, becomes a poll. I sometimes wish I could poll a wider group.

It would be fun to see how the nutjobs on the Yahoo boards would break down...
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Westegg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:46 PM
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18. dude, honey---ya look like Cesar Chavez!
So no way you're luring THIS lounge lizard into your lair.

I like my men pert and lithe. Yet I'm not gay. Go figure.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:37 PM
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25. Yahoo is Freeper lite.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:21 PM
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10. Occasional thoughts but not interested in acting on them
Female here.

While I certainly prefer men, there are the occasionaly women I see where I can definitely see the appeal. And it's never anybody I know' it's always just some passing woman in a crowd. And it's an interesting mental vacation for a minute or two, but I would not be interested in acting on it. Just adds a bit of spice to my fantasy life. ;-)
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:24 PM
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12. Is a male with lesbian desires gay if he acts on them?
It is all so confusing.

As in why is this question at DU - albeit in the Lounge?

Someone looking for dates?

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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:31 PM
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15. I once had an erotic dream about Anthony Hopkins...
...but didn't factor that in to my vote. :evilgrin:
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 05:44 PM
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28. I once had a mild crush on Kathleen Turner.
But, needless to say, nothing came of that. :-)

I'm a 5.989 on the Kinsey scale.
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commander bunnypants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:33 PM
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16. Non issue for me
Lots of gay friends and straight friends. ALL good loving people.


DDQM
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:34 PM
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17. Option three here, but I have never acted on
my desire to be with the same sex. I got married before I could do that. Ever since I was young, I've had crushes on boys and girls, but I have always dated males. I don't have a problem with my sexuality, nor am I ashamed of it. I'm just kind of shy and males are the only ones who have ever asked me out. It's complicated, so I'm just going to stop typing now.

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damnraddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 03:53 PM
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20. Straight. Just not into same sex.
That doesn't mean antipathy, just lack of interest.
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:00 PM
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22. my option
isn't really there. I'm not at all opposed to a same sex relationship, it doesn't "gross me out" at all - the right opportunity has never presented itself.

So, I guess I'd be bi - except Ms. Right (or even Ms. Right Now) hasn't appeared.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:03 PM
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24. Ditto, Maxanne
Guess I just haven't met the right woman...I'm attracted to a very particular type of woman, anyway. I have a strong preference for a particular type of male, as well, but can get my engines revved up by men who don't fit that type. With women, it seems to always be that one particular type that gets me going.
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Interrobang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:00 PM
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23. Fairly straight, not totally.
I've fooled around with women on a couple of occasions, and I would probably pick up the right woman if she made the first move (I'm not good at that kind of thing).

Then again, after a mini-revelation last night, I'm not sure if "straight" is the right word for me, either, since I seem to have an ambivalent gender identity at best -- I'm biologically female, but I'm *not* cisgendered. In fact, last night I was really wishing I were male, which was rather a first for me...
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DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 04:45 PM
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26. I may be straight - but I ain't narrow.
n/t

:evilgrin:
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 08:28 PM
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32. While I might appear to be a SCREAMING queen here on DU...
in the real world, most people who first meet me don't know I am gay. And I went through the whole "your not gay, you just haven't found the right woman yet" phase, where I was alternating between men and women. It may surprise some of you to know that I was engaged to a woman, that she was pregnant and miscarried the baby (and yes, it was mine).

I think that sexuality is a continuum, which we spend different periods of our life on different parts of. So while in my past I had an attraction for both men and women, now all I am really interested in is men. But who knows where I will be 10 or 15 years from now, but my attraction to men has always been stronger than my attraction to women.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 08:38 PM
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34. I never thought you"screamed", but
you do tease beautifully. I'm another of those "most people who meet me don't know I'm gay". Of course, I grew up during a time when it was 100% unacceptable to say the word homosexual, much less be one (rural south of the 1960's and early '70's.

I worked for a state agency for nearly 25 years. I never dated, lived with a male high school teacher in an old house, and talked about gardening and cooking. Anyone who couldn't figure it out was really stupid, but-since it wasn't work related-I really didn't think it was anyone's business.
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kodi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 08:34 PM
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33. hetero, with many gay friends of both sexes
i have never felt any erotic feelings towards other men.

while at the same time i appreciate the beauty of both the male and female form.

actually, i dont think there is anything more beautiful in nature than a woman.

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Blade Donating Member (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-16-03 09:22 PM
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39. I voted for Numero Dos.
Yeah, I thought about it, but I never want to act on it. I prefer my "pie" if you catch my drift...:evilgrin:
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