Straight bro worries about wanting to boink his buddy, but studies show that’s actually pretty common
recently asked VICE Italy, “What’s happening to me?” after admitting that he wanted to hook up with his bisexual male friend.If anything, this advice seeker’s experience is quite common, especially as recent studies have shown that lots of straight-identified men feel attraction toward other guys.“I’m having dirty thoughts about my friend – when I see him, when I look him up on social media, when I masturbate – ever since he broke up with his girlfriend six months ago,” the young man wrote. “He’s bisexual and has started hooking up with men too, so I keep thinking: ‘Why not with me?’”Although the advice-seeker once publicly rebuffed his bi friend’s playful offer to skip the club and just go back to his apartment, the young man wondered whether it’s “possible to be straight” while also wanting to have sex with an “average looking” guy who he nonetheless finds “impossibly attractive.”The publication replied that a person’s self-assigned sexual orientation is circumstantially fluid over a lifetime and that “labels are descriptive, not prescriptive.” That is, such labels don’t necessarily predict what someone does in their personal life, and sexual behaviors can change over someone’s lifetime.
