I'm not arguing that we need to give EVERY sexual preference a name, but I think some the locus of heterosexual and homosexual needs to be expanded.  If heterosexuals are pretty much split down the middle on if it's okay to watch twins have sex, then it's not an individual.  Now, I'm not saying that a person who has a foot fetish is a completely different sexual class than a "heterosexual", and if anything, "hyper-hetero" would be a class that includes people like those who watch lesbian acts, those who watch orgies, those who watch women in cars pressing the gas pedal(this is a true fetish I swear to god), those who like heterosexual domination.  I think the "fetish", is more of the sexual act preferred, where the "sexual orientation" talks more about what kind of partner is desired.  One can like "sadomasichism" and be straight or gay, so to call someone a "sadomasichist" really doesn't talk about their sexual orientation.  I definitely agree that sexuality is on a spectrum, but right now in America, that spectrum only really has three publicly recognized options:straight, gay, bi.  I think as well, the people in the world who are a-sexual, shouldn't get the same classification as a hyper-sexual, or hypo-sexual.  And again, I use these terms only as an example of how the divisions could theoretically be applied.  I think at this point, human sexuality is getting MORE complex, not less complex, so the subdivisions would become more complex as well.

Chris

by chrisandyasemin on 07/19/2009 11:54:13 AM EST

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