Why are so many gay people typically more attracted to more androgynous types?

i say you just like who you like thats that it doesent need an explination or a reason...


i dont feel anything towards manly men fem men fem women or butch women...they are all just human to me.

likeing someone and beeing with them in the end comes down to more than how you present or how you posture yourself be it in a masculien or feminine attitue...the basic initial attraction are jsut trates you like and would admire in teh opposite sex but its the rest that you feel nothign for yet withen the same sex you feel those other attractions.

just my pov

 

That's something I could never explain to my self even. I think its something that's just rooted into out heads really. Ask him why he likes 'real' girls and not the ones that are straight butch? Just personal preference and that. If could fully understand why I like men then I would be rather famous. Sadly I don't. Its just what we like.

 

I generally find myself attracted to "manly" men. There is an exception to every rule though.

Attraction is difficult to explain, and equally difficult to understand. We like what we like, plain and simple.

 

i love girls who look like boys and boys who look like girls

i also love girls who look like girls and boys who looks like boys.

i love girls who ACT like girls, boys who act like boys, girls who act like boys, but traditionally, not boys who act like girls.... This is starting to change though, and i'm beginning to explore it... I met a gay guy who was very effeminate while not being camp... He was just elegant, delicate, and graceful, and i couldn't take my eyes off him, so it looks like i like just about everything....

I suppose i'll learn more as i keep growing up

 

I find myself attracted to guys with soft features, "pretty" faces, and ones who dress in skinny jeans and form fitting tops / v necks and such. If you want a good example, think the obviously gay dancers on SYTYCD hahah

I dont exactly know why, but i think its partly to do with the fact they are very outwardly gay and that is a turn-on for me and partly to do with the fact im turned off by rough/dirty/athletic anything. I trace this all back to my love for Ianto Jones, the suit wearing welsh coffee maker in Torchwood who i had/have the biggest TV crush on ever

 

I find myself naturally attracted to more feminine women, but occasionally butch women like Shane from the L-word just get me all riled up

so I dunno, I'm pretty versatile with it, I just happen to notice the femmes more ;D

 

I'm pretty much attracted to the female identity, it doesn't really matter to me whether a girl's butch or femme or somewhere in between. I have a slight preference for more feminine women, just a personal preference, but that's definitely not a rule. There are huge fundamental differences between a more butch woman and a man, or a more feminine man and a woman - they are not the same, and that's what a lot of people don't tend to grasp.

 

I think it varies a lot for everyone. The result of the poll will be interesting though.

Usually I'm turned off by everything (well most things) that reminds me of the opposite sex

 

Attraction is very difficult to explain. I liken it to what a Supreme Court Justice once said when asked to define what is pornographic. He said, "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it". Attraction is, it seems to me, very similiar...I can be attracted to someone's mind and the emotional connection between us, and that creates a physical attraction between us that might not normally exist...likewise, the physical might be the first thing I notice and then an emotional bond forms.

As others have said, we like what we like and it is very difficult to explain.

 

Feminine women for me definetly.....But then the odd time I'm attracted to women with slightly masculine features.......for example Shane from The L Word XD

I think it's a little bit of straight creeping in..sub conciously attracted to the masculinity but not attracted to an actual man as that would be TOO much...

 

Well, androgyny appeals to me because it's kind of like hitting two birds with one stone.
I love certain things in men that I don't get in women and vice versa. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I can find both sets of qualities in people who are genderfucks, genderqueer or just gender nonconforming. And also I have a bit of a hard-on for men who cross-dress and women who bind.

While I'm not genderblind as some bisexuals/pansexuals claim to be, people who step outside the normal or make me doubletake when I hear their voice are just hot.

All that being said, I still find people who strongly identify with one gender attractive.
Pretty much, I just love the whole slew of differences found in people.

 

Yea. Differences include: personality, general kindness(mostly), little to no facial hair in women, skin is softer in women, women are often better kisses, it's easier to emotionally attach to a woman... need I go on?



I have attractions all over the gender spectrum (as long as they are women) and it's all good to me. :eusa_clap

 

I would like to support the support for Shane from the L word... but Carmen (L Word) is probably more my type... I definitely like feminine women... but I like women in general--- *gasp* yes, attraction is certainly a complicated thing.

 

I'm usually attracted to either really feminine-looking women who wear manly clothes (a pretty girl in a tux? Drooool!) or girly-girls. I think I have been attracted to more butch women, but it's so rare that I can't even think of a concrete example. For some reason, I sort of prefer being the more "manly" one in my relationships.

 

I voted for A). For instance, I like chicks with short hair, and dudes with long hair. What can I say?

 

Well I'm not attracted to feminine guys but I don't really think I'm that feminine, I mean sure I love lady gaga and the theater but I'm not that "flamey." But as others have said I think we just like who we like and if we could control it there would be no need for this forum.

 

I dont have an answer as to 'why?' but I prefer butch women. I can't help it

 

After my last relationship I think I dunno really lol.
I am second guessing everything...

My last relationship did bad for me. Seriously, he turned me off a whole race. O_O
I dun even know if I am gay anymore. lol

Well maybe not that extreme. But I am serious about the race part.

 

I'm pansexual, so I am attracted to a lot of different "types". However I do have a preference for people who aren't hyper-feminine girls or hyper-masculine guys. That is, I'm fine with an extremely feminine boy, but might not be as fine with a girl who was as feminine, and vice versa. Don't ask me why, it's just my preference.