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I'm a 35 year old male and I've always considered myself very straight. However, for the first time in my life I am now doubting my sexuality and am thinking I might be gay.
I've always dated girs/women my entire life and have always found them very attractive and have sexual fantasies about women.
However, I've always fantasized about penises but never wanted to be perceived as gay so I've kept that closed off in one portion of my mind. Then, in college, they were no longer just fantasies. I started having anonymous sexual encounters with men. I have continued to have these anonymous encounters up to now (14 yrs).
I have only had one serious relationship with a woman. We lived together for a few years and then I abruptly ended it for no real reason - I thought I wanted to be alone but then realized that I didn't really enjoy sex with her and would always fantasize about sex with men (didn't act it on it when we were together).
I haven't dated anyone since (it ended 3 years ago). Now, all my sexual fantasies are about men. I don't even bother with women anymore but I still consider myself completely straight. I tell myself that anonymous sex is easier with men (it is) so I do that to meet my needs (like they do in prison) until I meet the right woman.
Am I crazy? gay but scared to admit it? help!
I have a friend who was married for over 20 years, has three sons and finally realized recently that he is gay.
Gail
With statements like "
Life's just all cut and dried for you, isn't it "chosen"?
Lisa (big kiss)
Love yourself and be you.
I think the advise given by others would be good for you, Will. Be comfortable with who and what you are, and your life can be much more content.
Chosen, I guess it's no secret that you and I don't see eye to eye. You have every right to your opinion and to state it here like everyone else. What gets under my skin about your posts though, is how you keep referring to people having questions about their sexuality as their "sins" and how they "have to face up to the facts" that they are somehow completely messed up or not worthy of the same respect as you are by being so strongly hetero. That just screams "homophobia" to me and has to come off to the people you're referring to as hostile. You face up to cancer or obesity or drug addiction or alcoholism, not what turns you on.
While I agree that Will is likely gay, people aren't automatically part of any group such as gay or lesbian simply by virtue of having a same sex desire. Their curiosity could very well be just that, a curiosity. It also could be just a desire to take a one-time or short side step into a different way of having sex. I know that was my story. While you very rightfully may not agree with their sexual tastes, your seeming insistence that these people have something seriously wrong with them, that they need to face up to, is like yelling "fire" in a movie theater. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to you, but in deference to these poster's questions about their own sexuality I have to ask - are you here to try to contribute something valid to these discussions, or are you just using this forum as a homophobia platform?
FCL's analogy of sexuality being a sliding scale was spot on, that's one thing I wish you could "face up to".
Lisa (I'd give you a hug but I'd be afraid of your reaction to touching me given my previous same-sex experiences)
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