# Sexual orientation versus sexual inclination **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220 "2009-06-09T16:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/21 "2009-06-10T14:10:49Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Have I got the [chick](http://spi0n.fr/blog/wp-content/plugins/hot-linked-image-cacher/upload/awfulplasticsurgery.com/slideshows-2/PS-JocelynWildenstein.jpg) for you! Thanks. You owe me a new penis. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/22 "2009-06-10T14:58:09Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Have I got the [chick](http://spi0n.fr/blog/wp-content/plugins/hot-linked-image-cacher/upload/awfulplasticsurgery.com/slideshows-2/PS-JocelynWildenstein.jpg) for you! That’s that “Bride of Wildenstein” person? That’s not feline; that’s grosteque. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/23 "2009-06-10T15:04:39Z")
I don’t know, I think she looks a little like a [cat](http://tracksuitceo.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/worlds-ugliest-cat.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/24 "2009-06-11T09:17:49Z")
I would say that if you prefer sex with the same sex you are homosexual, if you prefer romance with the same sex you are homoamorous, and if you just prefer them visualy you are a homoaesthete . ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/25 "2009-06-11T14:02:27Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I go out of my way to look at cats. I like cats better than people in personality, asthetics, and pleasantness to touch. I mostly use Google Images for looking up “kittens”, “fuzzy kittens”, “siamese cats”, and the like. > > Come to think of it, my concept of human beauty includes feline features- my ideal pretty person looks like some sort of fantasy elf. > > And for that matter… oh, never mind. I’m going to stop before you think I’m really weird. OK, I’ll say it. You’re just a Furry who hasn’t realized it yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/26 "2009-06-11T19:27:13Z")
Is that a bad thing or a good thing? ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/27 "2009-06-11T20:33:15Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > If you don’t have sexual feelings towards either gender, but you think people of your own sex are attractive and people of the opposite sex are not, then what does that make you? Confused in an innocent, human sort of way. If it was me, and it was bothering me enough to ask a bunch of strangers, I might consider talking to a professional about it. I’m not saying it’s a big deal, and it may simplify your life greatly feeling this way, but if you are curious about why you feel the way you feel there are people that can probably help you dig into your feelings about attraction, sexual and otherwise… ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220/28 "2009-06-12T04:04:26Z")
Or maybe it’s b/c you haven’t met the person who really gets you going. I know some asexuals think that if all people of a certain gender don’t get you aroused, then you’re automaticly asexual…But maybe it’s just a certain person out there that gets you aroused. For example, I love looking at porn…but nothing gets me really aroused THAT way except for my Hannah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sexual-orientation-versus-sexual-inclination/499220.md?page=1)