(March 24, 2023 at 9:17 pm)Belacqua Wrote:(March 24, 2023 at 7:41 pm)emjay Wrote: As someone technically bi, I understand a lot of what you're saying. Though I identify primarily as gay (now, and for most of my life), rather than bi (or straight), there have been other times - though not many, granted - where I've identified more as straight and been more interested in women... so I have degrees of freedom here that my truly gay friends, who can't even conceive of being with a woman, don't. Ultimately I doubt there'll be a full 180 in my life like your examples, because overall I'm much more emotionally attracted to men than women, and that's more important to me than just physical attraction (which is the part that is the most 'interchangeable' for me), but it is nonetheless conceivable, in a different time, place, and mentality.
Thank you for taking the time to understand what I was saying. I wasn't clear to everybody, apparently.
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From all the convos we've ever had on here, one thing I'm pretty sure is that homophobic you are not... far from it; you seem very liberal minded to me, and hell, seem to have more gay friends than I do
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Things like 'conversion therapy' make my blood boil, not just the ludicrous notions that it could ever work to 'pray the gay away', or the downright insulting misuse of the word 'therapy' there, but most importantly that anyone should propose or feel pressured to try something like that in the first place. But again, there's nothing you've said that makes me think you're not just as opposed to this sort of 'therapy' or the pressures that underlie it.