AlteredEgo
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No, Silvertip, there are no varying degrees of straightness. Straight ess is an extreme, as is gayness. They are the extremes at the ends of the spectrum. What is variable are all the possibilities and facets between heterosexuality and homosexuality. There are words for some, though doubtfully all of those permutations of orientation, but not a single one of those words is gay, straight, homosexual, nor heterosexual. Not without qualifiers, anyway, because those words have meanings, and those meanings are as extreme as they are precise.
The only existing exceptions are contextual. Prostitution (being the prostiture, not seeing one), and pornographic performance because the motive is compensatory in nature, not dependent upon orientation.
And while the words to describe sexual orientation are rigid, as all words need to be for language to function effectively, I am by no means denying nor advocating the denial of the fluidity of orientation. I have never been straight nor gay, and can not remember ever having attraction for one sex or the other, and I have know my entire life that while I strongly prefer males, there will always be some females to whom I am drawn, I know there are many other people for whom there is no certainty at some points in life. Those too are exceptions, since sometimes you just can't know until ou know.
The only existing exceptions are contextual. Prostitution (being the prostiture, not seeing one), and pornographic performance because the motive is compensatory in nature, not dependent upon orientation.
And while the words to describe sexual orientation are rigid, as all words need to be for language to function effectively, I am by no means denying nor advocating the denial of the fluidity of orientation. I have never been straight nor gay, and can not remember ever having attraction for one sex or the other, and I have know my entire life that while I strongly prefer males, there will always be some females to whom I am drawn, I know there are many other people for whom there is no certainty at some points in life. Those too are exceptions, since sometimes you just can't know until ou know.
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