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Helpful article on discovering sexual orientation

Discussion in 'Sexual Orientation' started by Mysteria, May 4, 2017.

  1. Mysteria

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    All but family
    I have found this to be one of the more helpful things I've read. Maybe someone else will like it too.
     
  2. Really

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    Thanks for the link. Just started reading it.
     
  3. EverDeer

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    I actually find it incredibly helpful that for discernment, they made an emphasis on broadening "romantic attraction" to "emotional attraction" and "sexual attraction" to "physical attraction". I think for many years I was absolutely certainly able to say that I was capable of being emotionally and physically attracted to different types of people, but would somehow trip up when I tried to convert that to directly romantic or sexual, since it hinged on if I could actually date someone or not, which I wasn't sure of I think due to lack of representation or examples in media growing up (cause, I knew how heterosexual relationships were supposed to work perfectly, but had trouble mentally converting it)