POLL: What's your sexual orientation? (Closes May 5th.)

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
I'm heterosexual.	76
I'm homosexual.	12
I'm bisexual.	9
I'm beyond categories.	7
I'm asexual.	2
I sublimate.	2
My sexuality is directed towards non-human things (furries don't count).	1

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoops, I guess necrophilia doesn't fit in any of those. My apologies for the ILX body-loving massive...

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"furries don't count" - why?

― braveclub, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Gore Vidal would love this thread.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I count them as humans, so you should one of the other alternatives. Of course, if you have the hots only of the furry suit and not the person inside, you can click the "non-human" option.

(x-post)

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't understand the options past Heterosexual. I'm not asexual, I just choose to be celibate. I'm not sure what the sublimation thing is supposed to be about. I guess there isn't an option for me. I'm not beyond categories, my category just isn't up there.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

where is "gay, so far"?

Alfred OTM (acts, not persons)

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to claim that I chose celibacy and that it didn't choose me. No one believed me oddly enough... Orientation wise? North by Northwest every time baby.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

my heart belongs to BAN TUOMAS

― gff, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm disappointed "magnetic north" wasn't one of the choices.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

BAN LOUIS JAGGER

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link

This wasn't meant to be taken too seriously. Personally I'm sympathetic towards the "acts, not persons" view, and the "beyond categories" option was meant fo people who feel the same way. But that doesn't change the fact that many/most people do feel they have a definite sexual orientation.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Sublimate: v Psychol direct the energy of a strong desire, esp. a sexual one into socially acceptible activities.

Um, although I think I understand, what's so socially unacceptible about sex? It seems to me like it's supposedly *more* socially acceptible to couple up than to choose not to.

Take out that "socially acceptible" bit and it might suit.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate, I don't think the term "orientation" necessarily requires any action to be taken. So if you don't feel asexual just click on the option you'd think would be closest to you whether or not you're celibate.

(x-post)

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think the socially unacceptible bit sounds kinda dated too, but the general idea of sublimation is that your sex-drive is directed towards things that aren't (or aren't generally considered) sexual. I'm not sure if the whole existence of sublimation can even be proven, but it seems like a good way to describe certain behavioual patterns.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the 'acts not persons' thing sort of made sense when people referred to The Gays or The Homosexuals, but otherwise not that much. "there are no vegetarians/britishes/epileptics, just vegetarian/british/epileptic acts".

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

where is option "tuomasexual"

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think celibacy is not a sexual orientation.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean, i don't think celibacy is a sexual orientation.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

where is option "tuomasexual"

-- ghost rider, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 5:11 PM (22 seconds ago)

qft

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I don't have to answer the poll. Whatever. It's just weird that those two options are provided if you're not going to include celibacy.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally get off on transitioning from a solid state to a gaseous state, rowr.

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought vs. action, you could be having sex with everything under the sun and still identify as heterosexual, or homosexual, etc. Asexual implies a lack of sexual motivation, but not necessarily action -- more as a lack of drive.

Like Tuomas said, this is persons, not acts. Celibacy isn't an orientation.

― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Celibacy isn't an orientation.

NEITHER IS "SUBLIMATION"!!! WTF?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

most people on ILX are heterosexual.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

still it's massively exciting to see what will finish in fourth place.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

To be honest, I don't think sexuality is easy to define in any sense. In my opinion, sexuality isn't something you can just freely choose, like vegetarianism (referring to an earlier post), but neither is it something you have absolutely no control over, like epilepsy. If a person can be considered to, say, have chosen a fetish, then choosing celibacy could be considered a sexual orientation as well. As I said, I'm sympathetic towards "acts not persons" approach, but nevertheless sexual acts don't seem to be as free and context-dependent as many others.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

BAN LOUIS JAGGER

We can all guess how Dom voted. Miss him, do you? Love hurts...

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

How can you talk about "acts not persons" when you don't have an option for "there are no acts"?

x-post HA HA HA HA HA Ha to kv.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to say though, I like "I'm beyond categories". It makes one sound like an unruly library book!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Quiten down Kevin Nolan.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

My sexual orientation is "there is no spoon".

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha piss off crush-boy.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Where is "bisexual who has never had a homosexual experience"?

― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

they're on the internet a lot

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha xpost

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

that's 'Tuomosexual' in a nutshell

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Thought vs. action, you could be having sex with everything under the sun and still identify as heterosexual, or homosexual, etc.

probably good we don't usually use language in this way.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

In the context of a poll, "beyond categories" is itself a category.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Magnetic north.

― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a scorpio. Say no more.

― C J, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

you should make a new poll, for kate

― river wolf, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't like to see people left out

― river wolf, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://daresler.com/lost/swan-logo.jpg

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, did someone mention vegetarians upthread?

― John Justen, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

h) adam schefter

― ^@^, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i) polar bears

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

where's portrait?

― ken c, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

j) fuckin yr mom

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahha or LANDSCAPE (see end of article)

― ken c, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

k) I like to chew up my sexual orientation and spread the resulting paste between two intact sexual orientations

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

c or d, my friend who identifies as "queer" and refuses to claim a sexuality, despite the fact he admits to only having had sex with women. which is kind of odd because he lived with someone who was really androgynous but was actually male... *head hurts*

― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

c or d or anthony easton

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

what about metrosexual?

― ken c, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

wehre is option "Ian R-M"

― max, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I like to chew up my sexual orientation and spread the resulting paste between two intact sexual orientations

I'm not voting until that option is included.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm a straight faggot

― 冷明, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i love this poll

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

(but i voted for sublimate)

― 冷明, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Unlucky?

― Stone Monkey, Thursday, 3 May 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I was thinking most "non-human" sexual objects - like boots, panties, or rubber dolls - still seem to be directly connected to humans in one way or another, but I guess the lamp-post man doesn't fit into this theory.

― Tuomas, Thursday, 3 May 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Bump (& grind).

― Tuomas, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

This is what anonymous polls were invented for, right?

In your wet collegiate dreams. I prefer to fuck.

― stevienixed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

POLL: What's your sexual orientation? (Closes May 5th.) [Started by Tuomas, last updated 1 minute ago]

Sudanese man forced to marry goat [Started by blueski, last updated 7 minutes ago] 7 new answers

We know the answer to that one.

― stevienixed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe he wants one of us to fuck him.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Tuomas? Pretty sure he does, but I'm not giving in.

― stevienixed, Thursday, 3 May 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Russell Ziskey: No, we're not homosexual, but we are *willing to learn*.
John Winger: Yeah, would they send us someplace special?

― kenan, Friday, 4 May 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd have expected more shades of grey in your poll, tuomas, although you are asking about orientation rather than sexuality or gender, so I'll let you off.

― Ed, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Ed; Ed; Ed, don't be so shy. Come on. Tell us which shade of grey you are.

― nathalie, Friday, 4 May 2007 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'm someone who doesn't define their identity by who they fuck" clearly not one of the options! Tsk tsk!

I'm still confused by what "orientation" means. Like, what direction do you face when you fuck?

East! Towards the rising sun, so I can harness the most orgone energy.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 09:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'm someone who doesn't define their identity by who they fuck" clearly not one of the options! Tsk tsk!

Actually, this is exactly what the last option is about. So you can click that if you want to.

― Tuomas, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you needed to clarify your options a bit better, because that's not what I thought the last option was about at all.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

And orientation refers to whatever objects your sex drive is directed to.

― Tuomas, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link

(x-post)

The last option was meant for anyone who doesn't believe in caterogizing or definitive sexual identities, it's deliberately vague.

― Tuomas, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

worst thread ever

― braveclub, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Guitars, pedals, strips of celluloid or paper with images on.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Just heard in the bar at lunchtime:

"You know, I'd question my sexuality if it was Steve Bull doing the asking."

― aldo, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, was this a man or a woman?

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.andybillingham.com/stevebull/news.htm

STEVE BULL OPENS SKINCARE CLINIC

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It was a bloke. He did follow it up with "Not that I think he'd ask. I mean Bully's not like that, is he."

― aldo, Friday, 4 May 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I guess the results aren't that surprising. I would've perhaps expected more bisexuals.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 5 May 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

We're a dull crowd, sorry.

― Maria, Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I prefer sexual calibration.

― Eric H., Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

It seems the results are statistically pretty average.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 11 May 2007 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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