David_Gerard comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: oliverbeatson 09 February 2011 01:47:52AM 6 points [-]

I wonder how much this would work for a homosexual male.

I've actually been trying this essential thing, although with less persistence as it requires a certain amount of effort to attend to something that just seems so immediately boring to myself. Perhaps living in a hetero-normative culture ensures that when a man decides that he's gay, he is more likely to have discovered a roughly immutable biological fact?

Comment author: David_Gerard 09 February 2011 12:13:35PM *  8 points [-]

Despite subcultural normativity being strongly biased against bisexuality, really quite a lot of gay-identifying men have experimented with heterosexual behaviour, but are - ha! - closeted about it.

Comment author: oliverbeatson 10 February 2011 02:19:53PM 1 point [-]

Alas the benefits of being open about a very slight sexual curiosity are probably not often great enough to make complete honesty seem worthwhile. Also such curiosity tends to signal a lack of self-knowledge and thus to an extent lack of trustworthiness, probably hence the vague stigma that many people have against dating bisexuals.

Comment author: David_Gerard 10 February 2011 06:44:39PM *  4 points [-]

The Bizarre World of the Bisexual - it's all 100% true! [1]

[1] Statement of 100% truth may not be 100% true.