WTF X 2

[moonwise]

1. WTF is up with the rash of "bisexual virgins/celibates" I've been seeing around? It seems... a bit of an oxymoron to me.

2. Trinity Blood got licensed, which is annoying. It's not a series I'd pay to see, and that's the problem. Generally, even if a series is licensed, the subbers will continue to release new eps through their site or through IRC, but Anime-Empire is stopping the project. WTF.

Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Whether you're screwing someone right now or not doesn't change your inclinations. I've always thought voluntary celibacy to be one hell of a weird lifestyle choice, but people have their reasons for doing it, I suppose.

If you're in a monogamous relationship, should that stop you describing yourself as bisexual? You like who you like, and you look when you look, and the fact that you're not going to act on it doesn't change that. Bisexual celibate just takes that a step further since you're not currently having sex with either gender.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I wonder whether there's a correlation between the voluntary celibacy and asexuality. There are some folks who just ain't interested in having sex, and not because of traumatic events such as rape or abuse. It doesn't mean that they never masturbate or enjoy porn or get turned on by things, they're just not interested enough to consummate with another person.

Speaking of bisexuality, there was an article in the New York Times about how men do not appear to show a true bisexual response, but women do. Definitely a study to take with a grain of salt, but interesting nonetheless.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I have no clue at all, since my experiences with celibacy were always the entirely involuntary kind!

Was that the study where they showed men and women of various orientations different kinds of porn and monitored arousal in areas of the brain? That one seemed to show that women find erotica arousing irrespective of the gender of those involved, whereas guys like what they like.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the study. Not to put any metamessages on the results, but in a nutshell, it showed that the majority of self-identified bisexual men who participated in the study and responded to erotica at all were aroused exclusively by m/m erotica and not by f/f erotica. Interesting that women could be more flexible that way.