Inspired by Ashely Mardell's (HeyThere005) recent videos on Spectrums below, I am just wondering, where are all of you at on the spectrum of gender identity, expression, sexual orientation, and romantic orientation? And what do you guys think about spectrums? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-tGyulQOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycxZe6_4n6c Personally, I am a mostly female identified person - However, my expression of that, although is also mostly female, is a little bit more fluid I guess you could say. I also identify as bisexual - I'm romantically attracted to males and I am demi-romantic when it comes to girls. I am about 90% sexually attracted to females and 10% sexually attracted to males. I say 10% sexually attracted to men because I do get aroused reading yaoi, boy x boy smut fanfics, but other than, I do not want to have sex with a man. And I guess that would define my spectrum! Oh, there's also a website where you can make your own spectrum map too: Spectrum So, what would define your spectrum and how do you feel about spectrums specifically? Thanks for any answers!
I'm a bit of a tomboy, but I still consider myself 100% female. All of my romantic attraction is towards women, but I can't fall in love until there's a strong, platonic bond first. I guess you could say I'm "demi-homoromantic...?" I don't like using the "demiromantic" label for 3 reasons: 1) Most people don't know what it means. 2) The prefix "demi" literally means half, partically, or to an inferior degree. Therefore, it implies that I'm somehow less romantic than the average person, just for not falling in love with strangers, when I'm really MORE romantic than the average person. 3) The words gay and lesbian are good enough for me. I'm 100% homosexual, although I also love yaoi. :lol: I say 100% because the only men who turn me on are in yaoi. Real life men don't do anything for me. A friend of mine joked about it and said I'd be bi if I lived in the anime world. :roflmao: P.S. I wanted to fill out that thing, but it won't work on my tablet...
I did this thing but I'm not totally sure if I did it right. :O Basically, I'm bisexual, but tend to be more attracted to femininity. That's for both sexual and romantic orientation. I put myself as slightly sexual just because even though I'm horribly demi and can't feel sexually attracted to someone I don't know, I'm certainly not asexual. As for my gender, I don't feel totally female despite the fact I identify as one. I seem to switch from female and androgynous perhaps..? Either way, I present as very female just to make sure I don't get picked on.
Thanks for responding! And I get what you mean about the demi thing, but I still use it because it describes me a whole lot better. Now, no one in real life knows my sexuality, but if I had to tell someone, I wouldn't say Demiromantic, I would say "I need to have an emotional connection with a woman before I can fall in love with her." However, they would probably say that I'm just trying to be a special snowflake or that I'm not really attracted to woman, so then again, I would have to pull up the demisexual definition to them to show them that it's a real part of many people's sexuality. And you like yaoi too? Haha I'd probably be more sexually attracted to men too if life was an anime haha xD But it's true that yaoi and porn aren't necessarily indicators of sexuality - Another person had told me that solid Kinsey 6 women were even more turned on with yao and gay porn than with women sometimes. I wanted to fill it out too but I didn't know exactly how to work it either. You can check it out whenever you get on a desktop! Thanks again for your respond and always be proud of who you are, because you are special
Here is mine. If I could put ??? on here, I would have, but I did the best I could for the time being, haha. Orientation: Still figuring this one out, either bi on the "gayer side of bi" (can I coin this term?), or gay. Or somewhere in between. Sexuality: I'm not a very sexual person, historically. I once considered myself somewhat asexual, but I have been feeling more sexual lately, so perhaps there's a shift happening in me. Gender: One area I'm thankfully pretty firm in, I was born female and identify as female. Gender Expression: I'm not a girly girl, I don't really wear makeup or do my nails. I'm more comfortable in jeans and sneakers. But I'm not a tomboy, either, and I wear my hair long and still present as female, and if I dress up I'm apt to wear a skirt or dress. Romantic: More ??? territory, but I feel that here I am probably more apt to romantically be attracted to either gender... still unsure.
Same shit. :icon_wink Bisexual tomboy with a romantic preference for masculine people and a sexual preference for the female body. Add many exceptions and a great deal of fluidity. :lol:
Honestly, I don't even care whether or not there are studies that prove/disprove demi-romantic/sexuality. I think it's awesome that it's being studied, but the studies don't affect me personally. I can't fall in love with someone I don't know and that's that. If someone has a problem with it, they can go suck it. The amount of Kinsey-6 women out there who watch gay-male porn is HILARIOUS. :roflmao: You're welcome. Thank you for saying that! :icon_bigg ---------- Post added 1st Jun 2014 at 12:11 PM ---------- I was finally able to do this. ---------- Post added 1st Jun 2014 at 12:12 PM ---------- I forgot to put in my name... :bang:
