(speaking as both a classics minor and a guy who gets drunk and makes out with boys)
We inherit from Greek culture the idea that receptive homosexuality is emasculating. Making out with a girl is in no way de-feminizing, so it's less of a big deal.
to share a bed, kiss, hold hands, etc, are feminine actions. so it's common for two girls to do it, or for a guy and a girl to (most of the time). i don't think two guys (unless they were gay) would know how to, or would have the urge to, perform these ultra feminie actions. see what i'm saying? as women, it's our instinct to show affection my snuggling/holding hands etc. most men don't have those instincts, or surpress them, or think that if they perform them, they will loose some of their man-ness.
but the girls kissing thing...i mean...that's just hot. girls do that for male attention. girls wouldn't think two guys making out is hot, so guys don't do it.
i think maybe i just confused myself...sorry. but that's what i'v always thought.
"Presumably the masculinization of the brain shapes some neural circuit that makes women desirable. If so, this circuitry is wired differently in gay men. In experiments in which subjects are shown photographs of desirable men or women, straight men are aroused by women, gay men by men.
Such experiments do not show the same clear divide with women. Whether women describe themselves as straight or lesbian, “Their sexual arousal seems to be relatively indiscriminate - they get aroused by both male and female images,” Dr. Bailey said. “I’m not even sure females have a sexual orientation. But they have sexual preferences. Women are very picky, and most choose to have sex with men.”
Dr. Bailey believes that the systems for sexual orientation and arousal make men go out and find people to have sex with, whereas women are more focused on accepting or rejecting those who seek sex with them."
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We inherit from Greek culture the idea that receptive homosexuality is emasculating. Making out with a girl is in no way de-feminizing, so it's less of a big deal.
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but the girls kissing thing...i mean...that's just hot. girls do that for male attention. girls wouldn't think two guys making out is hot, so guys don't do it.
i think maybe i just confused myself...sorry. but that's what i'v always thought.
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Such experiments do not show the same clear divide with women. Whether women describe themselves as straight or lesbian, “Their sexual arousal seems to be relatively indiscriminate - they get aroused by both male and female images,” Dr. Bailey said. “I’m not even sure females have a sexual orientation. But they have sexual preferences. Women are very picky, and most choose to have sex with men.”
Dr. Bailey believes that the systems for sexual orientation and arousal make men go out and find people to have sex with, whereas women are more focused on accepting or rejecting those who seek sex with them."
-NYTimes
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