“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
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The notion that all people are born either straight or gay, may have come from some well-meaning attempt to justify people being gay, making the religious or prejudiced view that gay people should seek a cure or choose to be straight pointless. Nonetheless, it isn't true. Kinsey's study, research, and accounting of human sexuality proved that people can be classified on a scale from all straight to all gay, that most people fall in between.
From my childhood on, I always thought it absurd that I should not be intimate with this or that person because of that person's gender. Love came or didn't mostly because of the person's qualities: friendliness, intelligence, interests, kindness or meanness...
The new films and series now appearing about polyamory, especially the manage-a-trois, affirm the realization Simone de Beauvoir had. The exploration of how and why this is true is beautifully portrayed in the characters' approach and questioning of the old rules and misconceptions about people's attractions. Millennials are the generation keen on this rejection of controlling rules of conformity. Here are two new 21st C. films to illustrate the innovative awareness from L.A. to Italy to the Middle East, to Japan...
https://www.netflix.com/title/82025606
Build and improve your love; don't castrate it.
--Jameson
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