For a fun game, try to guess this "new name" before reading the article!
spoiler
It's "gynosexual", because of course it is.
This article is also really fun because it showcases that many cishet men (probably cishet women too, actually), very much see their sexuality as the default and every other option as an aberration. The author even says as much, explicitly:
Just a few years ago — heck, just a few minutes ago, before I read this article — I was just a man with the default sexual preference of our gender. That’s not a knock on the LGBT community, mind you: If it were the other way around, humanity wouldn’t be able to reproduce itself. This default state of nature was simply called heterosexuality. There were also homosexuality, bisexuality and asexuality. We had all bases covered.
I've been saying for some time that it makes way more sense to categorize things in terms of "gynosexual/androsexual/bi/ace" than "straight/gay/bi/ace". It's really strange and seemingly an artifact of heteropatriarchal structures to categorize people's sexualities in terms of whether or not they are straight rather than what they are attracted to, perhaps because of the time when homosexuality was denigrated as being a paraphilia and would thereby need to have a taxonomical status separate from het orientations to properly medicalize it as a pathology.
I don't know anything, though
Why are WOMEN writing Men's Health?
Save that trash writing for Cosmo.
Reactionaries love identity politics
Oh yeah, hard agree! I really like using gyno/androsexual, I think that makes quite a bit of sense and is inclusive of people who don't fit well into the gender binary
This idiot, however, hates being reminded that there are people different from him
Idk, I think we'd get along quite well as a species if everyone was bi by default.
Lol reminds me of when I was a kid I thought that the homo in homosexual meant man. Men who like men is man-sexual. Made perfect sense at the time.
