# What exactly is your sexual orientation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539 "2015-10-04T20:38:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/21 "2015-10-05T00:53:05Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > _Feng shui_ dictates that mine be facing north while doing the deed. Is that True North, Magnetic North or towards the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility (as a treat on your birthday, perhaps)? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/22 "2015-10-05T01:01:33Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Is that True North, Magnetic North or towards the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility (as a treat on your birthday, perhaps)? Well, now you’ve got me thinking maybe I’m doing it all wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Futurist110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Futurist110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futurist110)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/23 "2015-10-05T01:06:36Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Okay, I’m a mostly straight, mostly cis female. OK. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/24 "2015-10-05T01:11:18Z")
I missed my sexual orientation and had to wing it once the semester started. Turns out so did a whole bunch others. If I absolutely have to answer something, make it het male, add the “cis-” prefix to either or both words if you care about that aspect of specificity and it’s in any way relevant at the given time. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/25 "2015-10-05T01:19:12Z")
Male, heterosexual (nonpracticing). ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/26 "2015-10-05T01:30:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Male, heterosexual **(nonpracticing)**. So you’re doing it for real now? Those long hours practising alone must have finally pulled off, er, _paid_ off I mean! ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/27 "2015-10-05T02:44:49Z")
Suddenly I get this feeling I’m back on Tumblr… 😛 I’m a cis female. Demiromantic, likely demisexual as well. Predominately heterosexual, situationally homosexual. Really, \*really \*situationally; like less than 5%. Too bad too, I have an adorable lesbian friend. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/28 "2015-10-05T03:57:52Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > I do that, too. But in my case, it’s just because that happens to be the direction facing the TV. This prompts another question: Is it impolite to change channels while doing it? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/29 "2015-10-05T04:45:57Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Male, heterosexual (nonpracticing). Yup. Same:( ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/30 "2015-10-05T05:18:00Z")
Uh, cis-male, not androgynous, attracted to hot chicks, more interested in who a person is than how they look, but no matter how interesting a dude is I won’t fuck a dude. My hot gf is a rather competent, able person, and I like that. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/31 "2015-10-05T05:51:00Z")
At my age and condition? ‘Mostly hypothetical’ Aren’t you glad you asked? ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/32 "2015-10-05T05:54:49Z")
I don’t know. Someone give me an EXACT label now so we aren’t all male-chauvanist heteronormative, or whatever. I was born with all male genitalia. I identify and display myself as a man. I think I can appreciate male looks, but I have never had a desire to touch a male sexually. I am sexually attracted to females and would prefer to have a regular sex life with one female, but more often than not it’s not worth the effort. I like a lot of time by myself. When I hear about people having affairs and things and actively “hunting” sexual conquests, I find the thought very exhausting. I’d probably rather have no sex than “bad sex” or sex that is uncomfortable. ---
**Author:** ![TheSpeculationElucidation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@TheSpeculationElucidation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSpeculationElucidation)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/33 "2015-10-05T06:59:18Z")
Pansexual female with polyamorous leanings. Currently happy in a hetero monogamous relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/34 "2015-10-05T07:22:47Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > So you’re doing it for real now? Those long hours practising alone must have finally pulled off, er, _paid_ off I mean! The robot arm probably helped, really. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/35 "2015-10-05T10:40:47Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > I do that, too. But in my case, it’s just because that happens to be the direction facing the TV. Do you adopt a position where you’re both facing the TV or does one of you use a mirror? ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/36 "2015-10-05T12:22:55Z")
If I can figure out which sex my right hand is I’ll let you know. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/37 "2015-10-05T12:55:14Z")
Cis male heterosexual. No homosexual leanings at all (not that it would bother me if there were). ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/38 "2015-10-05T13:05:26Z")
Asexual with a distinct preference for males. No, I can’t figure it out either. I just go with it. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/39 "2015-10-05T13:05:43Z")
I have a male body and am attracted entirely to those with female bodies. Twenty years ago I thought this made me heterosexual. I now realise this is only due to society oppressing me with aggressive normative assumptions. In fact I now realise that I’m a butch gay woman trapped in a male body. Fortunately my external appearance only helps me - at a practical level - with passing myself off as male while being a female who wants to “act out” my fantasy preferences of pretending to be male. I can “pass” as male so convincingly I sometimes think I am male: a suggestion so insulting I’m thinking of having surgery to transform myself into a female bodied person so that I can undergo gender reassignment to pass as male to convince my doubters that I am actually female. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/40 "2015-10-05T13:22:29Z")
Asexual. Won’t do it, don’t ask me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539.md?page=3)