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Are modern women failing you: or are you subconsciously gay?
A lot of men claim women aren’t “enough” for them: while yearning for a close homoerotic brotherhood
Homophobia was the rampant, intense experience of most men’s childhoods. So much so that even embracing, touching, or expressing admiration for male peers was seen as disgusting or wrong. Everything was so gay, so queer, so homo. While I faced some homophobia as a bisexual kid, I was well aware it paled in comparison to the suffering and anxiety my male friends faced whenever they behaved in an even slightly homoerotic way to a classmate or teacher. One male friend made the huge mistake of hugging a friend after a successful football match: he ended up sobbing with the girls behind the gym, outcast from the rest of the team. “Homo” would follow him for years.
It is unsurprising to me, now, as an adult, that so many clearly bisexual and gay men struggle to accept their sexuality.
A man (I won’t out him) claimed under my articles that he couldn’t feel emotional or romantic satisfaction to a woman, and no man could. Men, he claimed, understood each other. Satisfied each other. Emotionally fed each other. Women were for sex: we were for a sexual purpose. Women needed to accept this and the impermanence we must face in men’s lives…