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*these responses DON'T mean that you are actually partially attracted to men. all it necessarily means is that only either the physical or emotional side of relationships feels like a puzzle where you and men cannot possibly fit.

if you can't tell exactly what the distinction is between "not being attracted to men" and "feeling like it would be unnatural for me to be with a man" - think of it like the same way that you may not ever have a particular appetite for chocolate, but that doesn't mean that eating chocolate actually feels like Something You Should Never Do. like, there's no good reason you should make yourself eat something that you don't want to. but just for the discussion's sake, there is a difference between not caring for something and being outright disgusted by it.

if that feels like a needless distinction wrt gendered attraction, that's because it is. this poll isn't trying to make any kind of point; i'm just curious as to how other gay people feel about their own attraction and lack thereof.

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*these responses DON'T mean that you are actually partially attracted to women. all it necessarily means is that only either the physical or emotional side of relationships feels like a puzzle where you and women cannot possibly fit.

if you can't tell exactly what the distinction is between "not being attracted to women" and "feeling like it would be unnatural for me to be with a woman" - think of it like the same way that you may not ever have a particular appetite for chocolate, but that doesn't mean that eating chocolate actually feels viscerally like Something You Should Never Do. like, there's no good reason you should make yourself eat something that you don't want to. but just for the discussion's sake, there is a difference between not caring for something and being outright disgusted by it.

if that feels like a needless distinction wrt gendered attraction, that's because it is. this poll isn't trying to make any kind of point; i'm just curious as to how other gay people feel about their own attraction and lack thereof.

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Drag can be non-binary expression too :(

i know, but in the context of that poll it wasn't relevant

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*in a way that matches your own gay attraction. if you listen to gay music but like, only related to other types of gay, that's irrelevant to this question. i'll upload another poll to account for that later

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note from blogrunner: I'm aware of hyperdrag existing and that drag can be an aspect of transfem/transmasc expression. that's where the "depends on something else" options come in, as well as the "if" on the 4th options. if knowing that a drag king actually is a man underneath the drag makes you attracted to them, then it sounds like option 3 fits you.

the reverse poll, asking gay men if they're attracted to drag queens and lesbians if they're attracted to drag kings, is here

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I don't understand your latest poll. Gay and lesbian people are not aroused by the opposite sex/gender at all. Being gay/lesbian means you are capable of being aroused only by members of your own sex/gender. Are you talking about situations where a gay man or a lesbian accidentally misgenders someone at first sight but later realises their mistake? Or have I completely misunderstood what you are saying?

i think you don't know what arousal is?

arousal isn't the same thing as attraction. arousal is literally just blood pooling in your genitals, and is a phisiological response that can happen for SO many reasons. like, humans pavlov themselves into getting this response from things completely unrelated to other humans. dangerous situations can make adrenaline spike enough to arouse us. it is NOT something that just always goes along with someone's innate gendered attraction.

when i'm attracted to a guy, i'm rarely aroused FROM that attraction. it's a full-body feeling. i might start thinking about what i'd like to do with him and then get aroused, but i wouldn't have wanted to think about that if i wasn't already attracted to him.

meanwhile, i have no desire for women whatsoever. i don't think women are attractive, i don't find them appealing with clothes on. however, i was exposed to sexual images of women from a young age, and my first boners were to naked women. and i used to use this to feed into a belief that i was attracted to women. i wanted to like women really badly as a kid. but genuinely ALL it ever was was a capacity to be aroused. and that's stuck with me, so i still do get aroused by certain sexualized images of women. and it's purely blood flow, nothing deeper. i don't want to be feeling it, either, because it feels incongruent to what i actually want.

really, just look at the results of that poll and you'll see that a good amount of other gay people report a continuing capacity to be aroused by the gender that they're not attracted to. i hope this explains it.

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