MYTHS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY THAT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN

We live in a statistical world. We know what percentage of people are afraid of heights, love their pasta boiled and how often they have sex. Why can't we know how many people are gay? The most frequently cited information is that 10% of men and 6% of women in the world are homosexuals.

The truth is, no one has any idea. The percentage could be 20, it could be 2. Everyone does research, but they miss one important detail – it's not entirely OK to be gay in this world yet, and everyone takes it differently for themselves. Therefore, homosexual people may not want to respond, not yet know the answer, or their option may not be included in the survey. Being gay is neither a nationality nor a race, so you can say for sure where you belong. All that can be measured in this case is how people feel at this very moment. Which leads to...

 

For many people, both hetero and homo, bisexuals are just hovering between the two camps and aren't sure where they want to go. Some would even go so far as to say that there are no bisexual people.

 

BisexualThis presumption comes from the fact that many bisexuals can long coexist seriously with only one sex. That doesn't make them any less bisexual. A woman, for example, can be in a 5-year relationship with a man, then go out only with women. Bisexuality has been confirmed with more than one study measuring arousal in the body and brain, and how they respond to various stimuli. The problem again comes from the fact that you can not measure people's feelings for a long period of time – they respond here and now, but tomorrow they may feel differently, and the circumstances may be different.

 

The sad thing about bisexual people is that both camps more or less reject them. Even gay societies sometimes think that bisexuals are hidden gays who are still afraid to come to light and betray their cause.

 

Think of as many homosexual films as possible. If it comes to lesbians, one woman is beautiful and gentle, and the other is a tomboy walking with a tank top and pants down. If it comes to gays – one man necessarily has a high tone of voice, dresses in colorful prints and orders tiles for the bathroom in the color ecru.

 

At first glance, these stereotypes seem logical – it is not in our nature for someone strong and masculine to get together with someone feminine and gentle? The truth about this has actually been known since the 70s. It turns out that very few gay couples take on "traditional" roles. It's just that we all believe in the presumption that deep down, people aren't actually gay and looking for the opposite sex. If you look closely, however, you will see gay couples who look absolutely equal in terms of their gender - for example, two macho men or two gentle women.

 

Nowadays, people are gradually beginning to accept the idea that sexuality of any kind is not turned on and off with a button. When a married politician has an affair with the gardening boy, everyone assumes that he has been gay all his life and is just now caught in stride.

The truth is that a person is not necessarily with permanent sexuality. No, it cannot be controlled and it cannot be "treated". It's just that at some point you feel a transition from what you've liked so far to something new. It can happen at puberty, and it can happen when you're 45 it's perfectly normal because, unlike the attitude people have developed toward different types of sexuality, the hormones in our body just don't care :)

 

It's tempting to think that unconventional sexuality is just a phase or done for attention (there are people like that), but science says otherwise. Therefore, the spectrum of sexuality extends in all directions – heterosexuality, homosexuality, asexuality (lack of sexual attraction) and pansexuality (attraction to all genders – men, women, trans). It's possible that the world is turning little by little to pansexuality, and who knows, maybe when we can have sex with anyone we want, regardless of gender, we'll become much happier :)