Hey John, thanks for reading and the feedback, man. I wish I could've expanded on the bisexuality section more, but the article is already quite long, so, I ran out of room. Exploring bisexuality was determined to be a topic for another day.
A topic I covered soon thereafter here:
...and here...
https://medium.com/sexography/2022-will-be-the-year-of-the-heteroflexible-man-cf53a6919fc3
Unfortunately, we're a bit limited by time constraints as readers don't have an entire day to read our work, so sometimes we have to dice up our thoughts into smaller pieces.
The thing is, this subject is impossible to discuss without addressing the elephant in the living room that is our homophobic culture. Like it or not, homophobia lurks in the thoughts of every man, be they straight, bisexual, or gay, and a lot of men have conflict about their sexuality that they rarely talk about. It's uncomfortable, but necessary to discuss.
For many (most?) straight men specifically, it's a challenge that's specific to their conception of their own sexuality. Of course I'm going to discuss it, even if it's never really bothered me much.
It's not at all homophobic to say that straight men have to overcome internalized homophobia.
Lastly, there's a lose-lose situation with discussing LGBTQ issues at present: if you're straight, you're told not to write about LGBTQ issues; but if you write about straight sex at all, you'll be told that you're not writing enough about LGBTQ issues!
It's a conundrum.
Typically, I try my hardest not to speak for other people and let them speak for themselves, though I'm slowly branching out if what I have to say can be backed with research or credentials. Thus, this article is framed in the cis-het perspective. I'm sure there are writers far better than I who can write LGBTQ perspective, so I'll mostly leave that to them.
Thanks for reading and your feedback, once more. I sincerely appreciate both. :)
