# You're straight (or gay) but that person of the same (or opposite) sex gets you all.. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429 "2005-11-23T16:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429/1 "2005-11-23T16:03:04Z")
Whenever the subject’s come up, I always explain that I’m as straight as a Euclidean shortest path between two points. While I can objectively rate how sexy another woman is, the most I ever think in terms of is “wow, I’d like to draw/paint/sculpt her some day.” And then I started watching _Law and Order: SVU_. Now, almost all the time, my attention is taken by Christopher Melloni’s character, Detective Elliot Stabler (Stablery goodness…mmmmmm), but lately, the actress who plays his partner, Mariska Hargitay, caught my eye. Then I came across [this pic of her](http://216.150.78.130/headshop/2004/040607/MariskaHargitay01.jpg) from a link on Wikipedia. (NOTE: **NOT EXACTLY WORK SAFE** ) Homina homina homina… Good heavens, I wouldn’t even know what to do with such a creature other than look and drool. After getting all hot and bothered, I did a quick check. Chris Melloni? Still of the Studly Do-Right yumminess. Other women? Meh. 'Kay, still straight. But wow. This happen to anyone else? Over whom? (Post pics, let’s compare.) ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429/2 "2005-11-23T19:06:15Z")
Gay man, but I agree that Mariska Hargitay is just gorgeous. She has a wonderful face. Same goes for Keira Knightley. And Salma Hayek. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429/3 "2005-11-23T19:16:25Z")
This has been happening a couple of times to me lately around school. No celebrities, though, so I can’t post any pics. The subject is almost exclusively a black male, so I don’t know whether I’m bisexual or just a fetishist or neither. Further confusing the matter is the fact that I can’t find any desire within myself to do anything remotely sexual with any of them. But it’s still the same feeling I get when I see a girl I want to pounce on. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429/4 "2005-11-23T19:32:37Z")
I’m amazed at how many threads there have been like this. That’s not a criticism. Let me put it another way, I’m delighted how many threads there have been like this. I mean ones that acknowelge orientation but also that that’s not all there is. Nice to know some of us have realized sex is a banquet…and no need to starve to death. I can’t think of a particular woman but some situations that by all rights shouldn’t get to me…Gina Gershon and Meg Tilly in Bound? Susan Sarandon and Catherine Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger? ( A movie I went to because I was in lust with David Bowie and left thinking about Susan Sarandon’s tits. They were quite good weren’t they?) ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429/5 "2005-11-23T20:05:01Z")
I saw “A Streetcar named Desire” for the first time about a month ago. I’m straight, totally. But if I went back in time to 1951 and I were gay and he were gay… Yeah, I realize that’s three big ifs that have no chance of happening, but still. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429/6 "2005-11-23T20:41:18Z")
Like you wouldn’t hit [that](http://www.pittcenter.com/images/magazines/esq00/esq00_04l.jpg). I know I would, anways. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-straight-or-gay-but-that-person-of-the-same-or-opposite-sex-gets-you-all/332429/7 "2005-11-23T20:51:33Z")
> [@drm](#): > > Like you wouldn’t hit [that](http://www.pittcenter.com/images/magazines/esq00/esq00_04l.jpg). I know I would, anways. I wouldn’t.