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Opinions esp. from women, please! Don't know if I'm gay/bi (curious)/straight

Discussion in 'Sexual Orientation' started by Minnie, Oct 19, 2013.

  1. Minnie

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    I really don't know what I am! Depending on my mood or what I've been doing (socialising etc) I can feel straight and bicurious, or transitioning lesbian. I think women are sexier and that sometimes I'm denying that I think so, and it feels like I'm celebrating it at times. With men, when I'm into them, it's very lusty and a bit too much. I'm very picky when it comes to guys but I feel like I could date any woman - it's like, with guys I have to make sure I'm really into one before I'd consider dating them, but I sometimes feel I could date any woman that I think is attractive and has a nice personality. Sometimes I think men are just so... blegh (sorry, guys!) and nowhere near as good-looking as women, other times I feel like women are prettier and more aesthetically pleasing but there's /something/ about men...
    I watch porn sometimes and can enjoy lesbian, heterosexual and male gay porn. Sometimes I love watching the woman, other times I love watching the guys, and other times I like imagining I'm the woman in hetero porn; depending on how I'm feeling, the woman or the man can put me off. What worries me is that I can feel "trans" when I've an attraction to women (the inverted commas are because a month ago I convinced myself I was trans and realised this was a way of me getting used to, and accomadating, my anxiety and depression - I now identify as female and LOVE being one, but when I have these "trans" feelings I can find myself being uncomfortable as a woman :frowning2: ) I can also become a bit of a misandrist, like I'm forcing myself to say I'm exclusively gay even though I'm probably a 4 or something on the Kinsey scale... again, depends on my mood. Obsessing about my sexuality has made it hard for me to just get to know people, so I become more closed off which makes things more confusing... tis a two-way stream a bit. I also had a stressful, sexless heterosexual relationship a year ago to 8 months ago, and I can definitey say that put me off men for a bit, even though I could notice some of the guys in my classes at uni; and, I guess it's fair to say, I do have "daddy issues" (my parents split when I was a baby, so I see my dad on weekends but he has depression also and he always seemed to encourage me to be smart more than anything else... I used to get really upset whe he wouldn't give me hugs or wouldn't tell me he loved me), and recently I thought I had feelings for a male friend because I became really pissed off at him when he got a girlfriend after I turned him down just a month before.
    So yeah, very confused! It's like I'm finding it hard to just accept that I find womrn attractive and obsess about it, or I'm a reluctant heterosexual who's obsessing about being gay or bi. Or I can't accept that I'm bi! Girls, any of you been through this? Can you relate? What are your thoughts (women and men)?
    Sorry about the really long post... I have a tendency to do this.
     
  2. Hey,
    I unfortunately have no advice for you but I can tell you that I could have wrote every word you said, including the feeling like a "man" when I think I'm gay. I'm also really really confused. Just wanted to let you know you are not alone, sorry I couldn't help more.
     
  3. R999

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    My advice is let go of trying to figure it out for awhile. Just be you. Don't worry about your label, it's unnecessary. Why does it matter "what you are" ? Just go with what ever feeling you're having that day.
     
  4. lovely lesbian

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    I don't really have Any advice for you but I agree with above don't worry about labelling yourself there is no need xx
     
  5. planets

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    I just took a test, I am also a 4 on the kinsey scale! lol I also get what you're going through, I'm going through much the same myself. I've exclusively dated men until about close to two years ago and since that relationship I haven't dated anyone. We never even had sex. I tried dating someone recently, but I had such anxiety about intimacy that it didn't go anywhere. I've always had more crushes on girls, all kinds of girls, similar to you, but I felt awkward about how to go about talking to any of them. I feel like I have to label myself too, especially since whenever I talk about it to any of my (straight) friends, they don't seem to want to talk about it until I'm "sure". I think this is unfair since I don't think I will ever be sure. All I know is right now, the idea of dating a guy makes me feel ill and I'm not sure if it was always like that or will ever be like that. So when someone asked me the other day I said I was "functionally lesbian". I have no idea what I meant by that. Thanks for sharing. I think we need to revolutionize the culture together and throw out binary norms!!!!