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Comment author: ThrustVectoring 06 January 2014 03:03:20AM 9 points [-]

It's why you can hardly ever get honest answers to questions like "would you sleep with a member of the same sex for a million dollars."

If it came down to actually making the choice, I'm pretty sure most straight men would sleep with a man for a million dollars. Only the naive are going to admit to it when it's a hypothetical, though, because the hypothetical question leaks information about your character. Choosing between a million dollars and your hetero-normal reputation is one thing -- choosing between saying that you'd take the million dollars and saying that you're too hetero-normal to do so is another.

Comment author: CronoDAS 08 January 2014 04:21:43AM 2 points [-]

would you sleep with a member of the same sex for a million dollars

Which sex acts, exactly, would I be expected to perform? I may have difficulty sustaining an erection under the circumstances... ;)