# Am totally straight but... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430 "2013-11-21T14:52:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/21 "2013-11-22T14:25:57Z")
> [@clairobscur](#): > > What do you mean? It seems obviously true to me. Maybe he means you can either be heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual with nothing inbetween? Not that I agree with that either. > [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Oh, wait, the lovely and hardcore Samara would probably fit for me. Character again, not actor. > > (I think they did lots of motion capture so just using their real faces was probably easier. However, MaleShep’s face was copied from a Dutch model, IIRC Mark Vanderloo. The voice actor, Mark Meer, did cosplay as MaleShep for at least one convention.) I could never go out with a woman who has a more manly jawline than myself. 😉 Besides I’d be scared of Samara\* and consider a person somewhat suspect who lives their life by a rigid ‘Code’ with no real possibility for personal decision making and autonomy no matter how noble and righteous her lifestyle seems to be. But she was another interesting and three-dimensional character in an interesting game. Thanks for the info re the motion-capture! \*I’d be worried that I’d accidently offend her sensibilities by using the wrong fork at lunch or something then she’d regrettably have no option but to kill me. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/22 "2013-11-22T16:11:07Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Please explain why you think this is not true. Well, I slightly misread your post - i thought you were saying that if you find someone of the same gender attractive, there’s no way you can be heterosexual _at all_. I missed the “100%” qualifier. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/23 "2013-11-22T16:34:06Z")
Wow, missed most of the sentence then! Was making me think maybe I was running into a wall of Identity Politics or something. And I’ll be the first to admit here; I do find a small number of men attractive and have to say that I’m probably about 85-90% hetero. But I’m almost 0% Robosexual. I just don’t grok the attraction there. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/24 "2013-11-22T16:48:42Z")
Thank goodness. I was starting to feel a good bisexual erasure rant coming on. 😛 Sexuality is far more complicated than the commonplace view of merely gay or straight, forever and unchanging, and may never the twain meet. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/25 "2013-11-22T18:18:14Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > If you can say, “Am totally straight but…”, you’re not. > > Not that there’s anything wrong with that. So I should be saying, “Am totally not straight but…”? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/26 "2013-11-22T18:55:17Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Wow, missed most of the sentence then! Just to defend my specific level of incompetence, but I only missed the “100%” part of your sentence, not “most” of it. I read: “If there is someone, _anyone_ of the same sex that you would consider going for, then you are not 100% heterosexual.” As: “If there is someone, _anyone_ of the same sex that you would consider going for, then you are not heterosexual.” Which is not a terribly uncommon argument, and one that I’m kind of sick of. But also, of course, not what you were saying at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/27 "2013-11-22T19:18:15Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Just to defend my specific level of incompetence, but I only missed the “100%” part of your sentence, not “most” of it. And the entire rest of the paragraph, I should have said. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/28 "2013-11-22T20:38:39Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > I might be able to go straight for Shakira. You’d have to fight me having gone lesbian for her. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/29 "2013-11-22T21:10:34Z")
I’m a totally straight male, but would go for Jamie Lee Curtis. What? She’s a dude. A dozen SDMB threads have said so. It MUST be true. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/30 "2013-11-22T21:20:14Z")
I can’t think of any woman I would want to try hetero sex with. Beautiful women are nice to look at and all, but I can’t recall ever feeling sexual arousal because of one. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/31 "2013-11-22T22:40:39Z")
The singer from Journey, and Paul Simon, are awfully… interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/32 "2013-11-25T04:11:37Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > The singer from Journey, and Paul Simon, are awfully… interesting. [Old singer from Journey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Perry_(musician)) or [new singer from Journey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnel_Pineda)? Just curious. Mine is Mariska Hargitay. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/33 "2013-11-25T04:33:18Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > At the risk of derailing this thread I looked up Kaidens voice actor, ah he doesn’t really do it for me _(I think its the hair)_, I’m so shallow. 😃 > > Anyway this was quite interesting, its surprising how many of the voice actors look like their characters, I wonder if this was a concious decision on Biowares part. > > [http://rebloggy.com/post/my-stuff-jack-raphael-sbarge-bioware-mass-effect-kaidan-alenko-yvonne-strahovski/39962853611](http://rebloggy.com/post/my-stuff-jack-raphael-sbarge-bioware-mass-effect-kaidan-alenko-yvonne-strahovski/39962853611) For Miranda at least, they used her [voice actor](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2088803/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t20) as the model for the character. Probably a strong Seth Green influence in Joker, as well. Oh, and, 100% straight here, as near as I can tell. I took the Kinsey test and got a negative number. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/34 "2013-11-25T09:38:21Z")
I’m a perfect Kinsey 6.0, and have never felt any sexual attraction to a woman. I can certainly be attracted to one esthetically, but that’s not the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/35 "2013-11-25T10:00:13Z")
Then what are you doing in this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/36 "2013-11-25T11:01:35Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Then what are you doing in this thread? “Nobody” is a valid response to the question. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/37 "2013-11-25T12:28:29Z")
I’m already on the record as saying that if I had the slightest homosexual tendencies Neil Patrick Harris would have a restraining order out on me by now. The dude sings, dances, acts, does comedy, does magic, does freaking acrobatics, looks startlingly dapper in a suit, was \*\*Dr. Horrible \*\*fercrisssake and posts adorable family photos every Halloween - what’s not to love about the guy? But while my head thinks he’s dreamy, the rest of my body is distinctly uninterested. So he remains unstalked (at least by me). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/38 "2013-11-25T15:45:55Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Then what are you doing in this thread? Masturbating. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/39 "2013-11-25T16:12:05Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > “Nobody” is a valid response to the question. No, then the question would have been “Whom are you doing in this thread”? ---
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430/40 "2013-11-25T16:23:39Z")
Ok - well I am totally straight, but while watching the HBO Series “Rome” I could see the attraction to: > **[List of Rome (TV series) characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Pullo_(Rome_character))** > > This is a list of characters from the HBO series Rome. The historical figures upon which certain characters are based are noted where appropriate. > The following are credited in the opening credits when they appear, with only Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Kerry Condon and James Purefoy appearing in every episode. McKidd and Stevenson alternate top billing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-totally-straight-but/674430.md?page=1)