How to Determine Your Own Sexual Orientation


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How do you know whether you're straight or gay? Exploring sexuality can be a confusing journey for some. While it’s true that many intrinsically know what sort of person (including gender) that they are attracted to, others may find the concept a little more hazy. For example, one might feel straight but they might sometimes think about gay sex. Or perhaps they even experimented with someone of the same sex. Does that make them homosexual?


Some straight readers get turned on by reading about gay sex, which may confuse them. Getting excited by reading about homosexual sex, or even having fantasies about engaging in sexual relations with a member of your own sex, doesn’t mean that you’re gay. A homosexual definitely knows whether he or she is attracted to members of their own sex, and that identification doesn’t come because of an occasional gay fantasy.


In addition to gay fantasies, a common occurrence among young teen males is to sexually experiment with another male. This experimentation may take the form of masturbating together, or actually masturbating each other. This may occur among females, too. This type of behavior doesn’t usually go any further than that. Again, sexual experimentation among teenagers is pretty common and doesn’t indicate any homosexual tendencies.


What does indicate that a person is actually a homosexual? The best indicator of homosexuality is if you can get sexually excited only by thinking about having sex with someone of your own sex (even if you have sex only with members of the opposite sex).




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