Sexual Orientation Poll 2014

[Saphira/Sephir Wolfdragon]

I just realized I'm pan not bi, just had the wrong picture of pan until a moment ago, when google told me otherwise

[SerebroVolk]

yeah^ pansexual is misunderstood alot. ive told a girl that im pansexual and she said omg you like transexuals?!

[Kaiyo]

Mine's not there.
I accidently the first one.

[George]

Yours is there. They've listed essentially all that exist, if you want something else that's just a preference that's part of one of those.

[Kaiyo]

It implies I'm into everyone of one/two genders or all genders. That would imply I like select gender(s) no matter what they looked like but you could look like anything or neither, no one looks the same nor is that representative of gender but rather evolution... What if I'm also more attracted to character than appearances? It just seems stereotypical to me and I don't see how that works unless you've grown up in certain cultures. Abstracts aren't real.

Also what if you're a robot, as well? Robots don't need binary gender.

[The Past]

Oh boy... Being attracted to a certain sex or whatever doesn't mean you have to be attracted to every single person who is within that wide group. No one is attracted to people like that. There's way more that people look for in a partner.

But by your description, I'd say you're demisexual. So am I.

[George]

Making it into another "type" like that implies that people who aren't "demi" are automatically attracted to everyone of their preferred gender.

[anoni]

It doesn't really matter, you're attracted to what you're attracted to xD

[George]

It doesn't really matter, you're attracted to what you're attracted to xD

This is true, why do we even have this thread? 

[Trixsie Vixen]

If memory serves it was to explore the hypothesis that the distribution of sexual orientations in this community is different to the distribution in the wider community.  Which is radically is.




Arguably this thread also serves to help like minded individuals find each other...

[IceRaccoon]

Well by calling myself Bisexual, i mean that i am attracted to MASCULINE men, and FEMININE women, but never feminine men or masculine women.

E.I Bisexual: I still respect and is only interested in the standard gender identity, unlike pansexuals who are into femboys and whatnot

[anoni]

Statistics are quite interesting.

If you look at my Furry statistics thread I made a while ago, it actually has the statistics I predicted based on several surveys.

In terms of sexual distribution the statistics were

Most results found that Bisexuals were the most frequent of sexualities (around 33%) why heterosexuals were close second (around 30%). A lot of furries considered themselves heterosexual with slight bisexual behavior and about 12% considered themselves exclusively homosexual.

which isn't exactly off this thread, so it's cool to see statistics check out.

[Trixsie Vixen]

How have I not seen that stats thread before? D=

[Kaiyo]

Making it into another "type" like that implies that people who aren't "demi" are automatically attracted to everyone of their preferred gender.

If you're not one person, though and you're dynamic, as well?
Also people's sexuality can vary across race, body build, personality, identified gender, abstracts, lots of things. I think the above poll just rounds things up too much. I don't think anyone can be attracted solely to a specific sex unless they are reductive in a social or biological sense because the brain is ambiguous and reliant on mental reward. If that weren't so other species wouldn't have evolved to have unusual methods and mankind like other species is always evolving with each individual a new tangent from the common ancestor. How can you be attracted to the whole sex if you ae attracted to one member of the same sex but not another? That alone tells me that sexuality is far more complex than being gender biased and can vary from how we see certain individuals but society/pheromones may tell certain people / other species to see that you should be biased. There is no perfect form so no perfect adherence to standards like sex and that creates subjectivity. If no one, say, straight was capable of attraction of the same sex then how is that person capable of subjective envy of appearance and thus possessing a desire to apppear like someone else even without any standard of appearance that is appealing to any one member of the opposite sex? We should also note that people will reject others based on functional fixedness, that means a person would avoid someone who appears attractive purely based on their fetishes or culturally subjective clothing. Fixedness can be fluid and even lacking which I would describe as what can be called pansexuality, which could also include objectum.

I can respect that the defined sexualities help certain people find a certain gender bias they like overall but that's not how I work, at least. Much evidence shows humans especially are overall ambisexual even a single person isn't entirely made up of a single "stereotyped" sex's characteristic genetics.

So while it's possible by abstract perception to feel like you belong to the above categories, I can deduce that I am more complex than the categories above.

I would identify most closely as polysexual, perhaps also semi-demisexual.

[George]

Just say you're bi. It means the same thing.