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Great story and well told. Beautiful really. Pan-romantic, I really like that. Wow there are so many gradations of sexuality and identity. I so wish we were talking about this shit when I was a kid.
So much time wasted trying to fit in the restrictive "straight" or "gay" buckets.
Still not as much as the guy in your story, but I can totally see how he could wind up in that situation given the cards dealt.
I know so many people that would have been better off with the range of definitions we have now, if only so they could self label and know what their feelings meant.
Like, demi-sexual. The folks I know that had a big aha! moment when they heard the term and its definition weren't necessarily unable to find happiness, but they were always questioning what was "wrong" with them, when it's something that's common enough that there should have been a term for it all along.
Just that, the knowledge that a person isn't alone or weird is such a powerful thing.
Had a younger friend multiple decades ago who routinely defined himself as trisexual, in that he was open to try various sexualities.
Yah, I know a guy like that :)
He extended it to "try anything once, twice to make sure I was right about not liking it the first time".
He's settled down and married now, but the stories he has because of his adventurousness are pretty fun to hear. He says he's essentially hetero, but stuff with guys isn't unpleasant, just not what he really likes for standard sex. He'll top a guy bdsm wise, but doesn't really enjoy sex with guys, in other words.
I've told him that he sure did a lot of it for something he isn't into lol.