• glorkon@lemmy.world
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    I believe there’s a much broader spectrum as straight, gay, bi. I was never sure where I belong on this scala.

    Like, I thought I was straight during my entire teens. Sometime in the early 2000s, I discovered the joys of online porn, and then found that the guys in porn sometimes seemed more interesting to me than they should. But having sex with a guy? No way. I thought.

    So I spent my life, a below average looking guy, starved for sex for a long time, except the occasional awkward and underwhelming experience with humans of the female persuasion. Smoking a lot of weed to fill the internal void. One day, met a fellow weed smoker online. Lived nearby, gamer. Knew where to get good weed. After a couple of weeks we met. He told me he was gay. I was like, alright, sure. We played NHL Hockey and smoked a lot of weed. He asked me if he could suck my dick. Stoned as fuck, I said yes. Best blowjob I’ve ever had. But then, I ghosted him. Why? No idea. Couldn’t face the fact that I might be bi? Not sure to this day.

    In my late 30s, I got married. And turns out once we were married, my wife turned asexual. So now I’m stuck in a straight life with no joy and no sex, getting closer to 50 every day. Even had to quit smoking weed. Boy, do I regret ghosting that guy.

    So to this day, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t turn down a gay guy if an opportunity arose, even though I lean more towards women. I’m just a guy leading a sad existence in the closet and this comment turned out to be a much gloomier confession than I intended it to be when I started typing. Sorry.

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      18 hours ago

      Do not apologize. That’s quite the story you have.

      If you’re unhappy with where you are, who you are with, or who you are, you can always change. It’s never too late and trust me, as a long term supporter of the LGBTQ+ movement (despite being very straight/cis), they are a very accepting group.

      As an outsider, I can’t tell you what, how, or when changes are going to work best for you, nor what changes you could, or should make. That’s entirely your decision and it’s a big one, and I’m sorry about that. I’m only saying that it’s not too late to figure out who you are and how to be comfortable with your life.

      All the best. Take care of yourself.

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      18 hours ago

      Seems like your sexuality is “sexual”. You just want to have any action, but socially you have the chance for none.

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        As much as it pains me to admit you’re right, you appear to have hit the nail on the head.

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          I hope you didn’t take that as being mean, that’s not what I wanted to be here.

          If you spend 10+ years with an asexual partner, anything that could provide a chance of sex starts to look appealing.

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    i love how there are some straight men in the comments getting offended as if this post was directed specifically at them.

    like, bruv, you don’t know that it’s for you, so chill. maybe it’s for the pansexuals or intersex people out there, who knows?

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      As someone who is straight/cis/male, and very secure in that… Anyone who takes offense… Probably gay. Just saying.

      I don’t take any offense to this stuff. I know who I am. I know what I like. I know where I stand in the grand scheme of things. I live by a very straightforward philosophy: don’t like gay sex? don’t have gay sex. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t get gay married. Don’t deny someone else of what you don’t want for yourself.

      We’re all different, and that’s a good thing.

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        11 hours ago

        nah, people who take offense to this post can’t be gay, for sure; they’d be like “hell yeah i’d suck some dick for an onion ring”.

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      As a straight, I agree with this.

      Me personally, I’m ok, for the most part. I’m sure you are too … But all of my fellow straights? Most of them are… Well… Very not ok.

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    I’m bi. But because of reasons I’ve never openly explored my sexuality with another guy. A while back I got bored and switch my dating profile to accept everyone as potential matches. Overnight my tinder blew up, message after message like after like. It was overwhelming with the amount of potential matches so I deleted my account and tried again

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    🎶 'Cause if you like it, then you should’ve put a ring on it

    If you like it, then you should’ve put a ring on it 🎶

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    Apollo doesn’t show me post authors in my main feed but sometimes you just know a Stamets post.

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          Feels like it occasionally. You know why I’m the mod of /c/Gay@Lemmy.world? Because when I started posting ages ago, I posted some memes in /c/Gay. The mod there just went “I don’t wanna be mod anymore” and randomly added me as a mod and left being a mod himself. No warning. Found out a couple days later noticing the M next to my name.

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            I’ve been fortunate enough to have experienced that. It’s so weird to be given the keys to the castle overnight and not know what to do with them.

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              Exactly. Like with TenForward, I made it specifically to get away from abusive admins of another instance. Fine. I knew that was coming. But being left stood there like “Wait why can I remove other peoples posts” is just so fuckin bizarre. I don’t know if Lemmy ever added an update notifying you you’re a mod or anything. Maybe something in the automod. It is a bit nuts that you can just be dubbed mod lol

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                That’s gnarly. But thank you for your labor in supporting these communities. We love you for it

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    Come on man at least let me try girls first, what else am I supposed to do with this attraction to breasts