I have a hard time believing that a majority of people are straight. Personally, I subscribe to the Kinsey Scale theory stating that sexuality lies on a spectrum rather than in strict labels with criteria that must be fulfilled if you are that sexuality. I think our society has been so focused on “straight is normal” for so long that anyone who falls particularly closer to the straight side of the scale will just identify as straight. I believe that humans rarely fall on a 100% straight side of the scale.
Personally, as a bisexual male who has a fairly fluid balance in the center of the scale, I’ve experienced this feeling of wanting to identify as straight to just make my life easier. I feel that for other people, especially those who lean more toward straight, never really question their attraction toward the same gender and label it as some sort of regular thing that 100% straight people experience. I don’t believe it really is, I think it is a legitimate romantic or sexual attraction to someone of the same gender.
The point I’m trying to get at here is that I think our society has flat out erased the normality of bisexuality. I hate hearing the argument that “most people are straight” when it’s very possible that most people are, in fact, “bisexual”.
Maybe it’s just my biased over analysis attempting to find signs of bisexual erasure, maybe I have a legitimate point, but either way we really need to open up the possibility for future generations to feel comfortable experiencing their emotions. Just the fact that I had to decide whether I wanted to continue on acting only on my attractions toward women or open up, live a more difficult life, but be able to be myself is a clear sign that something is obviously wrong with how we teach our children how sexuality works.
