# 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:** 6
**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 8, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/101 "2015-10-08T23:38:38Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You’re sexually attracted to pens? There’s nothing hotter than a fine-tip Pilot. Oh, baby… ---
**Author:** ![CerebrAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@CerebrAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CerebrAl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/102 "2015-10-08T23:38:57Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I don’t know what your response is yet, but I’m going to be offended by it Another choice that is yours to make… ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/103 "2015-10-08T23:42:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You’re sexually attracted to pens? Wouldn’t that be bi **c** romantic? As for me, I reject labels. Not because people should be measured as individuals, or any other philosophical reasons. I reject labels because there are too many of them in too many combination and it’s too damn confusing. I describe my sexuality thusly: Me like put man-part into lady-part. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/104 "2015-10-09T00:03:01Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > There’s nothing hotter than a fine-tip Pilot. Oh, baby… Have you been to [PenIsland.net](http://PenIsland.net)? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/105 "2015-10-09T00:11:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Biromantic… > > You’re sexually attracted to pens? _snerk_ Whenever I read “bigender” I think of Lilliput and wonder if there are opposite-gendered people on the other end who identify as “littleender”. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/106 "2015-10-09T00:19:24Z")
> [@CerebrAl](#): > > Another choice that is yours to make… I don’t need your affirmation as to what choices are and are not mine to make. See, I _knew_ I was going to be offended by your response. ---
**Author:** ![OwnRules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ea666f/32.png) [@OwnRules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OwnRules)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/107 "2015-10-09T00:45:02Z")
> [@Futurist110](#): > > …I myself currently have a male body but identify as genderqueer. That’s odd. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/108 "2015-10-09T01:51:58Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > There’s nothing hotter than a fine-tip Pilot. Oh, baby… There are a number of pilots on this board, but I think they might be offended as to having their manhood being described as having a fine-tip. ---
**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 9, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/109 "2015-10-09T02:25:25Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > There are a number of pilots on this board, but I think they might be offended as to having their manhood being described as having a fine-tip. What, you don’t think they’d like hearing, “Oh baby, that tip is _fine_!” ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/110 "2015-10-09T02:42:02Z")
I was born Pilot but identify as Uniball. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/111 "2015-10-09T04:16:18Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > I don’t need your affirmation as to what choices are and are not mine to make. I’ve said that pretty much vertabim more often than I wish I’d needed to. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/112 "2015-10-09T04:56:51Z")
To be clear my mocking posts are not based on an actual belief that all people who don’t fit simple conventional models of gender and sexuality are deserving of mockery; far from it. I have nothing but respect for several posters on these boards who are genderqueer or of otherwise non-conventional sexuality\*. My mockery is reserved for the usual brigade of trendoids who seem to have latched onto this whole thing as if it were the latest fashion and seem to be trying to outdo each other with ever more complicated, attention-grabbing and precious descriptions of themselves. \*… and some of my best friends are black. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/113 "2015-10-09T05:26:14Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > To be clear my mocking posts are not based on an actual belief that all people who don’t fit simple conventional models of gender and sexuality are deserving of mockery; far from it. I have nothing but respect for several posters on these boards who are genderqueer or of otherwise non-conventional sexuality\*. My mockery is reserved for the usual brigade of trendoids who seem to have latched onto this whole thing as if it were the latest fashion and seem to be trying to outdo each other with ever more complicated, attention-grabbing and precious descriptions of themselves. > > \*… and some of my best friends are black. I agree. There does seem to be a lot of one-upmanship and a whole lot of bullshit thrown into the mix. I am fully aware that there are real conditions that cause homosexuality and even gender dysphoria. However, the biological conditions that cause those are fairly rare. I do find it hard to believe that everyone is “on the spectrum” of some made up idea of the month. I know for a fact that I am not and I don’t believe the vast majority of men are either. I couldn’t be more straightforward in my preferences. If you are a pretty woman without any tattoos between the ages of 23 and 35, we can talk because I will be attracted to you. If you fall outside of that of that category, we can have many types of relationships but none of those are going to based on attraction by my vote. That is just the way it works unilaterally. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/114 "2015-10-09T08:56:09Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Actually, come to think of it, using “cis-” and “trans-” for gender alignment actually sounds vaguely offensive to me. Doesn’t “this side” and “the other side” kind of imply a value judgement? Then again, the PC police apparently came up with it, and I’m not going to attempt to out-PC the PC police. So I guess it just goes to show what I know. The “PC police” didn’t come up with it. It just comes from the idea that people who are externally gendered one way want to transition to be externally gendered another way. It’s a psychological term, like homosexual. (Externally gendered being how society sees you. There may be a better term for distinguishing that from one’s internal gender identity, but I haven’t found it.) There’s no value judgement, just the idea that you wish to go through a change that cis- people don’t. Or that you’ve already gone though said change that the other person doesn’t want to go through. In fact, this is a good example of how the “PC police” filter for looking at the world is incorrect. People who are merely looking to be offended do not have all that much pull in society. The reason why “looking to be offended” is such an insult is that we all pretty much think it’s a bad thing to do. I’ve still yet to meet anyone who thinks they are looking to be offended. And I very rarely encounter people who truly are looking to be offended. At least, every time I’ve accused them of such, I’ve been shown that I was wrong. I just disagreed with them. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/115 "2015-10-09T10:48:02Z")
> [@Supreme](#): > > I fuck women. You’re a pharmacist who refuses to dispense Plan B? ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/116 "2015-10-09T12:16:55Z")
Repeated monogamous and, much more rarely, occasionally non-monogamous heterosexual cisgender cissexual male who is attracted to adult females of the homo sapiens species. tl;dr - a straight guy ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/117 "2015-10-10T00:51:35Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > I was born Pilot but identify as Uniball. You’re _Hitler!?!_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/118 "2015-10-10T01:30:02Z")
Male, heterosexual, non-practicing for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/119 "2015-10-10T01:54:06Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > I was born Pilot but identify as Uniball. > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > You’re _Hitler!?!_ :eek: No, no. That was Göring. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539/120 "2015-10-10T19:28:33Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > No, no. That was Göring. When in Pamplona, run faster. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-your-sexual-orientation/733539.md?page=5)