January 2012
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Sexual preference is expressed negatively
I recently realised that the words we use to describe sexual preference, heterosexual and homosexual (as well as their slang counterparts straight, gay and lesbian), are not positive statements, but negative ones. They define what we don’t like and not what we like.
You might think that heterosexual means, “attracted to the oposite sex”, but then, bisexuals would be heterosexual...