Why do we have labels? “He’s a father”, “She’s a hiker”, “They are a teacher”, “He’s gay”, “She’s straight”, “He’s bi”, etc. They really all only exist for one purpose. Society puts them on us for “relation”. So that we can say “Oh, I understand him because he has the same label as me. He’s […]
Category: Masculinity
It’s been a bit of an introspective Friday and I find myself thinking about why being bare, being nude is so important to me. Some of my close friends get it, my immediate family – for the most part, gets it, but I know it confuses them a little. There are of course times when […]
What a Bisexual Person Gives Up – Being in a Monogamous Relationship
I didn’t choose to be bisexual. There is nothing I can do to “turn it on” or “turn it off”, I simply am. To my knowledge, I have been all my life. I can recall being a child and finding other men and women both attractive. I just learned at some point that it was […]
I once read a poem called “The Measure of a Man” in a friends house, it read: Not – How did he die? But – How did he live? Not – What did he gain? But – What did he give? These are the things that measure the worth Of a man as a man, […]