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Listened to the rest (post Box of Rain). Yes, amazing interplay on Dark Star>... between Jerry's high leads and Phil's low counterpoints, but also amazing how Bob keeps finding the right chord which connects the two strands at each point.

One does NOT choose who they are *physically* attracted to. You certainly can choose whether to act on that attraction, whether you even want to (based upon further knowledge of the person), but your receptors don't choose, they respond.

The very fact that the political lesbian ideologues insisted that women should *choose* to eschew physical (and of course emotional) contact with men should make one who is an antagonist of those ideologues highly suspicious of any notion that sexual orientation is a choice. So i'm quite surprised you seem to say otherwise.

Bisexuals? They too have receptors which react the way they react, with no conscious thought involved in the least. They just happen to have a hypothalamus and attendant equipment which is to one extent or another open to unconscious physical signals from either sex. This is what the likes of Simon LeVey have decided via their research. Physically speaking, a smaller percent of women are exclusively same sex, but a larger percentage are bisexual. No one chooses to be bi, people just choose to act upon their already felt sensations and emotions.

And yes, there are political bisexuals, i.e. like political lesbians. I've been told in several political (anarchist and the like) groups i hung out with, first in the mid '70s and then in the early '90s, that being bi was the politically correct orientation. I gave them the finger, had to stand up for myself quite forcefully.

No one chooses to be heterosexual either, i certainly didn't at age 9, had no idea what i was suddenly feeling that was different from what i felt before. Being hetero has actually been a problem over the 33 years since my divorce, it's not very popular in the political realms i inhabited, at least till the "COVID" PsyOp started.

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re sexuality, you're speaking from West Coast / Bay Area experience, correct?

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My New York experiences were all with streets-working professionals, they were all woman AFAIK or could determine. And i had several experiences while doing my own version of Kerouac/Cassady's On the Road in Summer '71, all were women, one guy in Chicago tried hard to hit on me. Otherwise, West Coast, all Bay Area, just a few flirtations in Seattle during a Dead 3 days stand in May '95. But the bisexual PC rap also came at me from the Fifth Estate, an anarchist paper then ('93-4) based in Detroit.

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That is some experience...though all of it is conventionally social. People reveal different facets of themselves in different environments. Set and setting and what is socially acceptable are essential to understand. Also experiencing people not as a direct participant but as witness and facilitator matter.

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In my Bay Area experiences, anything was socially acceptable :-) Well, maybe not bestiality.

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