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[–] thebestaquaman 55 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm straight, 100%. I know because I've been very close to trying, and figured out I was too straight to go through with it. If you had asked me when I was 18-24, I would probably not be so sure. Being "bicurious" around that age seems to be quite common, but is probably (my speculation) not closely linked to the proportion of people who are actually not straight.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well I was bicurious around that age and am now bisexual, so my anecdote nullifies yours

[–] escapedgoat 79 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well I'll bring the average to 66% but I'm not going to say which direction to mess up the math.

[–] zigmus64 65 points 4 months ago

Your affinity for chaos betrays your bisexuality…

[–] TheHotze 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just to further confuse the math, I was 100% sure I was straight at that age, but turns out I am aroace.

[–] Linnce 5 points 4 months ago

I thought I was ace at that age but it turns out it was just birth control messing with hormones. I'm sure I'm straight now.

[–] skyspydude1 3 points 4 months ago

With some rounding, we can get that up another 3% ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Somebody who is sexually attracted to the same sex but doesn't to through with it is not 100% straight.

It's at least 15% gay.

[–] paultimate14 12 points 4 months ago

In the last balance patch they buffed it to 18%

[–] andallthat 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

in the light of new hard evidence (very hard!) I have to update my priors to 23% gay

[–] cheese_greater 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

hard evidence

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I had something similar and was mildly crestfallen when it turned out that dating a dude feels extremely similar to dating women. I thought it would be like... orange-flavored? Or at least spicier? Religions hyped it up for so long, I thought there'd be some sort of difference. Kinda just feels like dating a best friend, regardless of gender. :)

I still find women attractive, but I'll be damned if this relationship with my bf isn't the best one I've ever had.