I think it’s really interesting how right now it’s much more prominent for girls to experiment with girls than guys with guys. No wait, not interesting, I meant shitty. For me. But fine, whatever, the thing that really gets me is the attitude people have that this is some sort of natural thing, it seems obvious for some reason that girls will experiment more than guys. I’ve been scoffed at for suggesting that guys could ever.
Ok first I have to get into what I think causes homosexuality. There is no gay gene, at least not that anyone’s found yet. Just like there’s no criminal gene and there’s no nice gene, behaviour does not seem to stem, in general, from the genetic level. The best they’ve found are some dna markers that seem to correlate with homosexuality, sometimes. All that means is that more gay people have this marker or gene or whatever than straight people. But not all of us have it, and not everyone who has it is gay. I don’t understand why some gay people keep hoping for this genetic basis like it will somehow validate our existence. I guess maybe they think it’ll shut up those maniacs who want to cure homosexuality. The proper argument to use there is not that it can’t be changed because it’s genetic, it’s that there’s no reason it should be changed.
So back to the original point. Since it’s not like females are genetically somehow more open to experimentation. It’s completely societal. And it’s not even like it’s been a constant in every society throughout history. In fact most of these examples support the idea that same sex behaviour is mostly environmental. The most commonly known example is that in Ancient Greece, most men of any type of stature had a male lover. It was just something every guy did, usually in addition to his wife. ‘Male Azande warriors in the northern Congo routinely took on young male lovers between the ages of twelve and twenty, who helped with household tasks and participated in intercrural sex [[thigh fucking...hahahah]]’. For native americans, “Two-Spirit” individuals were shamans, in fact they were usually considered to have powers greater than regular shamans, and had regular sex with “normal” male tribe members. Homosexuality was an ‘integral’ part of buddhist monastic life and the samurai tradition in Japan. Every Roman Emperor (except for one) had male lovers. A few cultures in Papua New Guinea even went as far as to consider heterosexuality at all a sin. Though I’m still having trouble wrapping my head around how that worked.
*All this info raped from wikipedia.
So my point is that more guys would experiment (hopefully with me) if we didn’t live in such a repressed fucking bullshit Christian society. Because apparently when everyone else is doing it almost every single guy in a society is ready to get down with a dude or two.
While I’m sounding bitter I just want to add that I wish gay guys would stop internalizing these offensive fucking stereotypes that they show on Will & Grace and Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Well, more like I wish the stereotypes weren’t there to internalize. I could go on about this but I’m at risk of offending some of my own people (I think it’s dumb we are even grouped together based on having one behavioural trait in common) and I don’t want to do that because us gay people have it rough enough.
