Have the lines between straight and gay been kind of blurred over the past few years?

Maybe we just always assumed the line was more distinct than it ever actually was.

What line? Are you talking cultural, biological, legal, ethical….?

What Harp said. I find myself saying that alot

Historically speaking people of the same sex have always engaged in sexual activity with each other.

Pretty much. From surveys I’ve seen, there aren’t a whole lot of people who identify as exclusively heterosexual or exclusive homosexual. I for one am exclusively homosexual. So far. I’m not saying I never can be attracted to a woman, I just haven’t been yet. And I think that people have always felt those other attractions but in times past just ignored them because it wasn’t accepted by society. Nowadays, people feel more free to explore those alternate attractions they may feel.

I’ve always believed in a scale of Gray between Straight and homosexual. Some folks are at the one end or another and many in between. Finding what is workable for a person, I think people aren’t as frightened or intimidated as they might have been in generations past.

Wait for it…

@Dansedescygnes: I don’t know what you’ve been smoking… not a whole lot of people who identify as not being gay???? What genius gave you those stats?

“I think that people have always felt those other attractions but in times past just ignored them”
You think I’m hot for you?? You are not only gay, your delusional.

And, there it is.

@pekenoe

Yeah, because you as one example completely disproves what I said. That makes perfect sense.

(rolls eyes)

Notice nowhere did I say “ALL” people. I saw an internet survey somewhere where almost everyone who answered said that they had at least once felt some kind of attraction to someone of the same/different sex depending on their orientation. Just because you haven’t doesn’t mean most people haven’t.

Now, what’s this about lines? Since when has their been a line cutting me in half?

I do think the line has blurred, and I hope it continues to do so. Human sexuality runs the gamut, and as long as sexual activity occurs between consenting adults I don’t think it matters what label we apply to it.

Yes it has! May it continue!

I do not think so, I think the difference is a wider acceptance for gay individuals so these individuals are more free to be themselves. Tolerance makes a lot of difference.

There is a lot more acceptance and awareness of homosexuality over recent years, eg. Kinsey’s study. This is perhaps one of the most well-known studies on sexuality that asked participants to “rate” their sexuality on a graded scale of 1 to 6, 1 being completely heterosexual, 6 being completely homsexual, and the numbers in between marking various gradations of homo/heterosexuality along the way.

The “line” that you speak of feels like a social one, rather than an actual clear-cut difference. **All** individuals, no matter how they identify, hold aspects of both homosexual and heterosexual in them, in my opinion. There’s no clear or natural dividing line between them that really exists in the person, excpet that which is drawn by society. I don’t agree with all aspects of Kinsey’s study but I think the way he categorised sexuality on a graded scale was particularly innovative and accurate.