Comment on Scientists reveal what drives homosexual behavior in primates
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
My theory for a while now that all mammals (except sheep) have a bisexual baseline with a common neurotypical heterosexual bias.
The heterosexual bias makes evolutionary sense because offspring.
The bisexual base line makes evolutionary sense because some gay people taking care of eachothers emotional-social needs is more sustainable then having sexually frustrated subgroup members.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 days ago
except sheep?
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Technically its human and sheep.
But the reason is that for all cases of homosexuality in animals they are always actually bisexual.
With the exception of homosexuals sheep who will refuse to mate with the other gender. They are homo exclusive for life and you cannot find an exception (as far as i know)
For humans this can be anecdotally the same but because bisexuality does exist in humans and even supposedly homoexclusive people can have heterosexual experience from before they come out the closest that i think there not comparable.
Just like hetero army guys who may pretend one of them is a women for a night, gay people can exist in loving functional hetero relationships. So even for homosexual people i would say its their main preference on top of bisexual baseline.
ctry21@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think a lot more people are bisexual than they realise but the whole “everyone’s a little bisexual” thing that’s been cropping up everywhere lately I find a bit homophobic. It’s especially a dangerous view to take for lesbians since so many get pressured with the whole “you’ll like it with me” sort of thing. But even being a gay man myself it sucks so much having people in our own community keep telling us we don’t actually exist, plus if it’s a preference then you can justify shit like conversion therapy a lot more easily. It’s a spectrum for sure but a lot of us still sit pretty firmly to one side of the other of it.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s more than a bit homophobic. And yeah as a lesbian I’ve been sick and tired of hearing it for years
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I get what you’re saying, i had not considered it could be interpreted like this.
For the record i do think you exist and are valid.
Just because our brains are flexible enough to adjust for otherwise unmet needs does not mean thats it’s a satisfying happy life, que the history of desperate repressed hetero men sharing a room. But any emotional closeness even to a human is better than depressed isolation.
I also consider non sexual relationships like “bromance” to be part of this trend. Showing emotional affection between non lover friends, especially those not in a relationship should be more normalised.