Wednesday, January 9

Right Round

You spin my head right round...

That song's playing on my Pandora music station right now.

I would say that my head is definitely spinning around right now.

I'm reading the book Middlesex right now and it's about a hermaphrodite and the development of his family that led to his sexual organs developing the way they did.  I think that those with MRKH questioning sexuality, or just exploring societal expectations of sexuality would find this book super interesting.  I found the first 25 pages hard to get into but now that I am, the book is flowing.  I feel like I relate to the main character in the book seeing all of the assumed roles in sexuality and feeling like it's so misunderstood.  I really feel that sexuality is a continuum.  There are pure heterosexuals at one end of the spectrum and at the complete other side are pure homosexuals.  A huge portion of the population falls somewhere in between those two continuums.  I feel more toward the male end of the spectrum but also find some females attractive.  I don't think we're all wired to be completely one way or the other and society in general has a difficulty with the middle ground.  The absurd part is that a lot of us are in the middle of it all.  My MRKH has caused me to question sexuality often and to be accepting of whoever anyone likes, or the community that each identifies with.

What are your thoughts?

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