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[–]Gearbeta 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have to disagree with this: " Aren't children's attraction the most honest representation of their sexuality before they become older and have homophobic rhetoric instilled in them?"

Because I can't agree that children's attraction is an honest representation of their sexuality. Many people have no sexual attraction to anyone at all before puberty and almost none of them go on to be asexual as adults. As for children who do have crushes, I would question whether ANY crush, straight or gay was real, prepuberty. Teens most certainly have the ability to have crushes and legitimate relationships etc so I would say if you are crushing on men/boys as a teen then you are, at least a little bisexual.

[–]les4les 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I think that children are super susceptible to thinking things are crushes when they're not. When I was 6-8 if I had strong feelings in some way about a boy I just figured it was the mythical "crush" but looking back on that, I was mostly jealous of them

Like how attuned to desire and personal relationships are little children supposed to be, when I was six I thought the definition of marriage was owning a house together