• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    I just saw someone right here on Lemmy in another thread conflating sexuality with sex.

    It astounds me that in 2025 people don’t understand that sexuality is about attraction. You can be a virgin. You can be asexual and still attracted to people of your own gender. You can be gay or bi or whatever regardless of how much or how little sex you’ve ever had.

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      Because a lot of the traditional hetero relationships that Christians have are only different from their other relationships because of the sex. They don’t get an emotional and spiritual connection in their relationship, and protect on to others that it’s the same.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    I could have sworn I read somewhere that it’s likely 10% anyway, like 20 years ago. That was the scientific estimate of the time, although I don’t though it included the same definition.

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      That was an estimate. Around that time only about 2-4% identified as gay but it was estimated the real number was higher because homophobia kept most people in the closet.

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        Yes that’s what I meant by likely. I think it was slightly more than a guess, though. Something about a percentage of people not having kids being good for evolution or something. Not sure how that works, though, so don’t that my word on that.

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      Right? I remember a couple decades ago when things just started opening up for lgbtq people that scientists studying sexuality gave estimates that 1:10 people were likely not going to fit the hetero “norm”.

      Looks like they nailed it.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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    Who could have guessed a significant portion of the population wouldn’t magically find their attraction to people exclusively split along a very specific line of biological and social characteristics in over 99% of cases? What a shocking revelation that maybe a lot of people just like who they like regardless of gender or sex.

    Personally, I expect to see this number of people outwardly identifying as bi significantly rise as time goes on.

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    You are welcome, us bisexuals have done our best to infect more people to raise the numbers.