Livre d'Or

The description/explanation of bisexuality you give is kind of nice and clever, but after about 2 seconds I think - but 'People who are like me and people who are unlike me" still implies that the gender thing is important, and is somehow the point of the attraction, whereas something I feel about Liv's idea is that gender is basically incidental to attraction. I think that's how I feel anyway. I still use 'gay' and 'queer' in a fairly general sense, I also use 'straight' both as slang for heterosexual and as slang for mainstream/conventional/square.

I basically agree with the second half of your comment. The 'sapiosexuality' idea is reaching for a label which just leads to me to think about whether it would be helpful for everyone to label their own preferences, is there a precise word for a preference for skinny people, dark-haired people, fast-walkers, must-be-musical etc (whether or not also gender-defined) and would it in any way be helpful or constructive..? I think not, or at least, not for me and my world.

I was also thinking (and this is not really a response) about this thing that happens when a straight or gay person meet a devastatingly attractive person of the 'wrong' gender, or someone who ticks all of their boxes bar gender, and the conflict and confusion is really palpable, especially if the attractor looks passingly like the other gender.. and I always think it is sort of strange.

Liv - I was not logged in, and I just had to think terribly hard about your number series captcha :/ I think I have failed your 'attractive intelligence' test...