Personally and from a pragmatic viewpoint, I don’t think it’s the vast majority, at least not based on my experience and assuming we’re both using the same nonscientific and imprecise definitions.
Having said that, I am fully on board with the idea that more people are somewhere in between on the spectrum of sexuality than most of us realize or recognize, and that far fewer of us are at the extreme ends (i.e. 100% fully hetero, 100% fully homo) than the average person assumes.
At issue here, for me, is recognizing that sexuality is (or can be) extremely complicated. It’s a situation where you can be almost comically pedantic and precise, taking things to the absurd, and easily make the claim that nobody is “monosexual”. There are so many factors to consider. Peoples’ presentation doesn’t necessarily correlate to their actual innate orientation. People’s sexuality can, and not infrequently, does change over the course of their lifetime. Those are just two examples.
I think a big part of my comfort with describing it as a vast majority is because I have an expansive definition. From what I’m given to understand, most people think of a kinsey 1 as het and a kinsey 5 as gay, but those are both clearly bi for me
Personally and from a pragmatic viewpoint, I don’t think it’s the vast majority, at least not based on my experience and assuming we’re both using the same nonscientific and imprecise definitions.
Having said that, I am fully on board with the idea that more people are somewhere in between on the spectrum of sexuality than most of us realize or recognize, and that far fewer of us are at the extreme ends (i.e. 100% fully hetero, 100% fully homo) than the average person assumes.
At issue here, for me, is recognizing that sexuality is (or can be) extremely complicated. It’s a situation where you can be almost comically pedantic and precise, taking things to the absurd, and easily make the claim that nobody is “monosexual”. There are so many factors to consider. Peoples’ presentation doesn’t necessarily correlate to their actual innate orientation. People’s sexuality can, and not infrequently, does change over the course of their lifetime. Those are just two examples.
I think a big part of my comfort with describing it as a vast majority is because I have an expansive definition. From what I’m given to understand, most people think of a kinsey 1 as het and a kinsey 5 as gay, but those are both clearly bi for me