For years, society has repeated the idea that “men are from Mars and women are from Venus,” as though men and women experience attraction, intimacy, and arousal as if they were entirely different species from entirely different worlds. Science often reinforces this narrative by focusing heavily on the differences between male and female sexuality, both […]
Tag: human sexuality
Looking back, I think both my exhibitionism and my pansexuality became psychologically connected to freedom. For much of my life, I felt emotionally compressed by expectations surrounding masculinity, sexuality, identity, and even my own body. I grew up carrying a tremendous amount of shame around sexuality while simultaneously experiencing sexual intensity very early in life. […]
Bisexual | Human Sexuality | Masculinity | Society
Why Male Bisexuality Still Makes People Uncomfortable
There is still something about male bisexuality that makes many people visibly uncomfortable. Even in cultures that have become more accepting of different sexual identities, bisexual and pansexual men are often treated differently from almost everyone else. The discomfort is not always openly hostile, but it reveals itself through assumptions, stereotypes, jokes, and the immediate […]
