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Sexual Health & Education, Tuesday
"So this world and this time likes to pretend that the only real sex and romance is between a chick and a dude who were assigned chick and dude at birth," Dante announced. "That's bullshit, obviously. See, you've got gay people, they're only into banging and being with their own gender. And you've got pan and bi people, like me. We'll do anybody." Beat. "If we're into them. 'Cause we're not into everybody. Some of us are super-fuckin' picky, actually."
... Dante was not, but let's not get into that, shall we?
"Some dude called Kinsey came up with this scale that's really more of a spectrum," he said. "It starts at 0, where 0 is like 'all I wanna do is have some heterosexual sex and romance in here with someone of the other binary gender', and goes all the way up to 6, 'I only wanna bang someone with the same gender was me'. Everything else in the middle is like, degrees."
"Kinsey was one of the first people to posit that sexuality is fluid and can change over time. It's not that one person is either one thing or the other, but that there is a continuum to cover varying attraction and experiences. But there is a lot of debate about the accuracy of the Kinsey scale," Kathy piped up. "For one thing, the way it tracks asexuality is by sexual behavior, not sexual attraction, and posits that bisexuality is the exact middle of hetero- and homosexual attraction, which is not correct, either."
"Also doesn't have a special sexuality category for 'straight nerd'," Dante said, grinning at her.
"Too bad for them," Kathy said, tossing her hair over her shoulder.
Dante was getting a kiss for that later.
Dante looked back at the class. "Anyway, Kinsey was an old white guy, you're gonna miss out on specifics, and we learned a lot more about how this shit works since then," he said, "Like how there's more than two genders. Course, if you wanted a totally inclusive model, you'd have to add in so many other factors about how and whether people like to have sex, how they like their romance or not at all, and all that. Like how you have bi and pan, right? So bi means 'my own gender and others', basically, and pan kinda means the same, except there it's more like... making really clear that gender doesn't matter. People who call themselves pan often do it to show that they embrace the trans community as well."
He shrugged. "Doesn't mean bi people can't or aren't into trans people or exclude them or anything," he said. "There's just less emphasis on that shit."
He leaned back against the counter. "Anyway, there's a lot of prejudices and weird assumptions about gay, bi and pan people," he said, "We're gonna put up a few claims today and you can tell us if you think they're right or wrong."
... Dante was not, but let's not get into that, shall we?
"Some dude called Kinsey came up with this scale that's really more of a spectrum," he said. "It starts at 0, where 0 is like 'all I wanna do is have some heterosexual sex and romance in here with someone of the other binary gender', and goes all the way up to 6, 'I only wanna bang someone with the same gender was me'. Everything else in the middle is like, degrees."
"Kinsey was one of the first people to posit that sexuality is fluid and can change over time. It's not that one person is either one thing or the other, but that there is a continuum to cover varying attraction and experiences. But there is a lot of debate about the accuracy of the Kinsey scale," Kathy piped up. "For one thing, the way it tracks asexuality is by sexual behavior, not sexual attraction, and posits that bisexuality is the exact middle of hetero- and homosexual attraction, which is not correct, either."
"Also doesn't have a special sexuality category for 'straight nerd'," Dante said, grinning at her.
"Too bad for them," Kathy said, tossing her hair over her shoulder.
Dante was getting a kiss for that later.
Dante looked back at the class. "Anyway, Kinsey was an old white guy, you're gonna miss out on specifics, and we learned a lot more about how this shit works since then," he said, "Like how there's more than two genders. Course, if you wanted a totally inclusive model, you'd have to add in so many other factors about how and whether people like to have sex, how they like their romance or not at all, and all that. Like how you have bi and pan, right? So bi means 'my own gender and others', basically, and pan kinda means the same, except there it's more like... making really clear that gender doesn't matter. People who call themselves pan often do it to show that they embrace the trans community as well."
He shrugged. "Doesn't mean bi people can't or aren't into trans people or exclude them or anything," he said. "There's just less emphasis on that shit."
He leaned back against the counter. "Anyway, there's a lot of prejudices and weird assumptions about gay, bi and pan people," he said, "We're gonna put up a few claims today and you can tell us if you think they're right or wrong."
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Myth or Fact?
1. You can tell whether someone is heterosexual, lesbian or gay, or bisexual by the way they look or act.
2. Most people know what their sexual orientation is by the time they are 13 years old.
3. The way parents raise their children determines whether a child is heterosexual, lesbian or gay, or bisexual.
4. If you try really hard, you can change your sexual orientation – regardless of whether you are heterosexual, lesbian or gay, or bisexual.
5. In a same-sex relationship, one person plays a “male” or “butch” role, and the other plays a “female” or “femme” role.
6. The majority of people in the world with HIV or AIDS are gay men.
7. With the 2015 US Supreme Court Decision on marriage equality, LGB people now have
all the same rights as heterosexual people.
"So," Dante concluded, "Which ones of these do you think are true?"
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