Sexual leaning statistics?

Started by Captain Maltese, August 01, 2010, 02:19:38 PM

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Captain Maltese

I*ve recently had it rubbed in how 'unusual' I am being a male bi. Are there statistics at Elli showing how many percent of us are this or that? Normally I wouldnæt expect anyone to keep count but the 'new' onoff system should be able to provide statistics for those who use it at least.

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Trieste

We are not currently keeping statistics on this, no.

MasterMischief

Not here, but in other places I have felt like an unwanted minority for being bi...or at least classifying myself as bi.

I doubt there is any practical way to ever really know for sure.  I imagine many people hide their sexuality for any number of reasons.

Captain Maltese

I can't say I feel unwanted.... well, maybe I do. A little. I can't speak about it with my make hetero friends, and the gays I know are all 100% gay.

But it's difficult for me to imagine that people hide their sexuality much at Elli.

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MasterMischief

Like I said, not here.  Maybe I just hung out in the wrong places, but I certainly felt unwanted.  I am not 'out' in real life.  I think it should be fairly obvious why.

I imagine there are people who hide their sexuality even on E.  I think it is unfortunate as I believe E to be very accepting.

Oniya

Since the new on/offs relate to people's characters, it may not reflect how they lean in real life.  Looking at my current RPs, I see two where I play a straight male, eleven straight female, four gay male and one bi male.
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MasterMischief

Quote from: Oniya on August 01, 2010, 04:23:37 PM
Since the new on/offs relate to people's characters, it may not reflect how they lean in real life.  Looking at my current RPs, I see two where I play a straight male, eleven straight female, four gay male and one bi male.

You are just all over the place, aren't you?    :P

jouzinka

Quote from: MasterMischief on August 01, 2010, 03:06:53 PMNot here, but in other places I have felt like an unwanted minority for being bi...or at least classifying myself as bi.
Sometimes I DO feel like an awkward unwanted minority on E being a 100% heterosexual and not even bi-curious...

But I guess that's just me.
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MasterMischief

Quote from: jouzinka on August 01, 2010, 05:56:04 PM
Sometimes I DO feel like an awkward unwanted minority on E being a 100% heterosexual and not even bi-curious...

I can certainly see how you would feel like a minority.  It does sadden me that you would feel unwanted.

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Quote from: jouzinka on August 01, 2010, 05:56:04 PM
Sometimes I DO feel like an awkward unwanted minority on E being a 100% heterosexual and not even bi-curious...

But I guess that's just me.

It does seem that way, sometimes.  I've had the same observation, at least of being a minority in that respect here, over the last year or two.  Being relatively "vanilla" too seems to create a second minority status.  :)
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Torch

Quote from: Oniya on August 01, 2010, 04:23:37 PM
Since the new on/offs relate to people's characters, it may not reflect how they lean in real life. 

Yeah, this.

I couldn't care less what someone's real life orientation is. Straight, bi, gay, omni, pan, whatever. Irrelevant, as far as I'm concerned.

All I care about is the character a co-writer is creating. *shrug*
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Don't worry, Captain, you are not alone. As my sig states, I am a bi male as well.

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WhiteyChan

Quote from: grdell on August 09, 2010, 08:28:42 AM
Don't worry, Captain, you are not alone. As my sig states, I am a bi male as well.

Bi men of the world unite! And have hot man sex!  ;D

*High fives them both in unification*

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Brandon

Well if there are people feeling unwanted then I think we all need to unite and go out to a bar for drinks. Then everyone can hit on everyone (although dont be surprised when I turn you down).

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Quote from: Captain Corto Maltese on August 01, 2010, 02:19:38 PM
I*ve recently had it rubbed in how 'unusual' I am being a male bi. Are there statistics at Elli showing how many percent of us are this or that? Normally I wouldnæt expect anyone to keep count but the 'new' onoff system should be able to provide statistics for those who use it at least.

Meh, I wouldn't worry too much. There are many many layers to human sexuality and relationships. It's as much a spectrum as anything else. I know someone who easily capable of forming same-sex emotional/romantic bonds but is not sexually attracted to the same-sex. Some men may not identify as bi though they may be attracted to men. There's also the tendency to misperceive bisexuality; TV Tropes says it best - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoBisexuals.

Much like female-on-male rape, it's just one of those things that gets severely underrepresented for a wide variety of reasons. But don't let that fool you into thinking that you're some small minority and that there aren't others out there.