Hi, I hope it's okay to post this here. I lurked on this sub when it was still on Reddit but never posted, and all the other subs there have been very unhelpful to me. I just want to figure out what my sexuality is without being told I'm actually a man, or non-binary, or something ridiculous like "heterosexual homoromantic" or whatever that means. Or asexual. That seems to be a popular one. I am none of these things and find them ridiculous and regressive.
So basically, for a variety of reasons I don't have the space to get into, I've never been in a relationship or so much as kissed anyone. I'm 24 now. I've had crushes on guys occasionally, and have every once in a while had a thing for another woman, but I've pushed that down for some reason. I'm not sure why since my family/friends would be very accepting.
More recently I've been questioning my sexuality, mainly because I tried branching out into dating more before COVID and did not have a great experience. I just did not connect with any of these men at all. And since I've had a lot of downtime and alone time with the pandemic, I've been thinking over it all a lot.
I've read the LBL "masterdoc" and found a lot of things in there relatable, but then they say crazy things about "women with penises" and I wonder if anything in there can be trusted. I've also wondered if I'm bisexual, or if I'm just straight and fed up with dating men.
I also think that for whatever reason I just really don't want to be bisexual. Mainly because I feel like that group is over-sexualized, and people would expect me to be interested in poly relationships when I consider myself very monogamous. Or that "transbians" would be even more likely to want to date me and feel even more entitled to my sexual interest than if I identified as a lesbian. Like, sorry, I'm just not attracted to delusional people whatever my sexuality is. Or that straight men/lesbians would not want to date me because of my sexuality, which I totally understand.
Visually, I feel like I'm attracted to men, but every time I think of it going further than that I get kind of freaked out. I'm not as freaked out at the idea of sex with women, but I feel less overtly visually attracted to them, but that might just be because I tried to ignore it before. I have no sexual trauma or anything like that, so I know that's not it. Also, even if the idea of having sex with a guy isn't that appealing to me, I can still look at, say, Chris Hemsworth and think he has it going on.
So basically, if anyone here has any advice for me on how to figure this out, that would be appreciated. Either way, I'm getting to the point where I think it's all theoretical anyway because TQ+ has taken over bi/lesbian spaces and in straight dating I just keep running into literal incels, so I'm pretty much doomed no matter what the answer is. For what it's worth, everyone IRL seems to just assume I'm a lesbian, but I've always chalked that up to being GNC and people needing to put me in a box.
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