Just try it once, then form an opinion. Just because you lay with someone who has the same equipment as you once, doesn't make you gay. So calm down with that concern. There isn't any shame in it. So let's chat. Wait... let me grab a vodka.
Redditor u/katnerys wanted to see who was bold enough to be willing to give us all a few saucy tidbits about their romantic past by asking..... Straight People of Reddit, have you ever experimented with the same sex and if so what was it like? [NSFW]
Inner thoughts....
GiphyWas lonely and desperate after a breakup and dropping out of college. Matched on Tinder for teh lolz. 4 shots of tequila before meeting him and a group of his friends for sex trivia. Plenty more drinks, I'm in his bed, and we're foolin around. I started laughing hysterically. My internal monologue was "whoa bro you're definitely not gay."
No Tongue Please...
I played on a women's professional sports team for 2 years in my 20's. I was one of 2 or 3 straight girls & the only single one. When we traveled to other cities we always went out & partied in the gay districts of said major cities (and often with the other team).
One evening out, a number of my teammates couldn't believe that I had never actually ever kissed a woman so she planted one on me -like, full on, grabbed me and put her tongue down my throat.
Conclusion: I hate being kissed by people I don't want to be kissed by, gender has nothing to do with it. Also, sorry ladies, I like penis. PotatoFaceGrace
Just a Kiss....
Ummm not really sure it counts but when I was mega drunk at a party a bi dude told me that he likes brown dudes with beards and kissed my hand. I didn't object cause he was nice anyways and I was super out of it. It was confidence boosting, that's the only time someone I'm not related to has kissed me in any way. Reddit
Just an Innocent Game....
Kissed a guy for a bit to get girls to kiss on a dare. Worth it, but really just felt like a stronger and larger woman than most women I've kissed. No real sparks and this was a fairly ripped, attractive man by most standards, very nice guy and good friend. So wouldn't go further. Reddit
The Kinsey Take....
GiphyYes. I like looking at and kissing women a lot, but sex is just meh. I honestly think I just wanted female friends and have a hard time feeling comfortable in an intimate, yet platonic situation with anyone... In any case, I definitely prefer men. Probably like a 1 on the Kinsey Scale. marnie9
You Stink.
Dude here. I've had sex with dudes, but can't stand how they smell. They just smell like skin to me. I don't know if it's pheromones or what, but the smell of a woman excites me, while the smell of a dude just smells like... raw lightly salted beef or something.
It kills the mood. virginityrocks
And you are?
I went camping once with a large group of people. Everybody was just sleeping on the grass, no tents. I am a straight male and was woken up by a gay man kissing me. He thought I was his BF. I was not. We laughed about it, but 0/10. Would not do again. I_ATE_TODAY
It was a different time....
In the '60s I made love to many, many women, often outdoors, in the mud and the rain... and it's possible a man slipped in. There'd be no way of knowing. the_paavam_guy
Not Terrible....
I've had a couple of homosexual encounters. It wasn't terrible, to be honest. Oral sex feels pretty much the same regardless of which sex is delivering it. It was kinda cool, but not something I'd go out of my way to do again. Never went farther than that.
I DO NOT like kissing people of the same gender. So that's weird.
I consider myself straight, despite having experimented. LucavexAyanami
The Intimacy isn't there....
GiphyI have, and I have mixed feelings about it. Now as far as sex was concerned, it was great. I loved every part of that. Women know the ins and outs of each other's bodies and it's easily some of the best sex I've ever had. That said, I haven't been able to transition that into a relationship. There's a certain level of intimacy missing for me. It's a shame, but that's been the line. keepcalmandhydrate
"Straight-ish"
I've had a couple of same sex encounters (straight-ish male here) and tbh I'm not even sure if i can call myself bi or flat out gay, since i still prefer sex with women but I've had my butt ate and received oral sex from another man, and been at it for about 4 years (same person, occasional sex), on the other hand, finishing from either act leaves me feeling unfulfilled, like eating rice with a salad instead of meat.
Kissing another man is a no-no, just feels off, but I've been very curious about receiving anal sex, so I'm not too sure about where i stand with the whole sexuality thing.
Edit: Apologies for the formatting, english is not my first language and i cant write very well. Francisb12
Not a Go!
I kissed a guy in college. Not a fan, too scratchy, he tried and tried to get my penis erect but it just wouldn't happen. dnd_stories
"Oh, Well now I know."
GiphyIn high school I was pretty open to learning about my own sexuality, and I had a friend that turned out to have somewhat of a crush on me (both female)- it was nothing major, we just kissed, but it kind of solidified that I was straight. Like an "oh, well now I know" moment. I think it was a good learning experience at a pivotal point in my life, a whole don't knock it 'til you try it situation. Reddit
On the Lips.
I used to kiss my best friend on the lips. Back in high school we were all very loose with our actions. We never kissed romantically but as a joke to his girlfriends. One got so mad that she punched me in my goods. Truth or dare lead to some weird moments but it was always funny, never sexual. Recabilly
I'm gonna do it!
Yes, I liked it. Not enough to ever consider a relationship with a guy. Just kinda one of those things I do (have done) occasionally, followed by a refractory period... Like a serial killer! I am a serial c**k sucker. TheBananaHypothesis
I Love Spaghetti!
GiphyI was at a very small gathering of friends over new year's. One of them let it slip that she'd find it "totally hot" if two guys made out in front of her, and that she'd always secretly wished for that to happen. Me and my bud instantly exchanged this look, it still makes me laugh just remembering his stupid grin, but it was kinda exciting too.
He took my face in his hands and we full-on made out with tender fondling and butt groping and everything.
I don't know how much was the action itself, and how much can be attributed to her red-faced, very appreciative reactions, but I definitely felt something. The 'straight as spaghetti' concept started making a whole lot of sense to me from that day on. BingusSpingus
NSFW.
Most nsfw stuff I did with the same sex is making out; and disliked it. I've also had a few dreams where I was having sex with another girl; disliked it as well. Welp, more girls for the women who are actually into them. medicmedusa
Unexpected Joy.
I had a couple sexual experiences with other women. I am in a long term committed relationship with a man. I had one without him, and honestly i loved it. Women are more beautiful to me then men, but I honestly couldn't imagine being in a relationship with another woman. It was definitely not expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. I am very happy I have had those experiences and I would recommend if you are comfortable enough, try it! niccah
Be Focused.
If it counts did a MMF threesome. Nothing happened between us, more about her.
Girl I was dating in college wanted to try it, and she indulged me in a FFM threesome so I mean it's only common courtesy that I reciprocate. Wasn't terrible, again nothing happened guy on guy, and we were focused on her, but I wouldn't do it again.
Personally I'm not even a fan of FFM, I prefer to give one person all of my attention and have all of theirs. I think sex works better when you're both wholly focused on each other. AlphaTangoFoxtrt
Regular Kissing.
GiphyI'm currently in a relationship with a guy and can't imagine falling in love with another woman. I mostly just had the regular kissing on parties or just for fun between girl friends and I had a little more than just kissing with a girl a couple years ago.
It was quite Okay. it's nice to feel and touch a different pair of boobs, but I didn't wanted to go further than touching and kissing because it just felt wrong. But the weird part is that I'm only into lesbian porn and turned on by women in pictures or on the street more frequently than by random men. Hallitsijana
Redditor r3tr0gam3r83 wanted to hear about which realizations in life have left people SHOOK, so they asked:
"What is something that blew your mind once you realized it?"
Avocados are not vegetables.
They're fruits, berries to be exact.
Like what?!?!
Colleagues
GIF by Bud LightGiphy"Sometimes it is more important to like your colleagues than the actual job."
"I had shi**y jobs with the most amazing colleagues and had shi**y colleagues and the most amazing job. I'd pick the first every time."
chr989
Star Trekking
"That you could legitimately travel at warp speed through the center of galaxies and never run any real risk of hitting a star. That’s how spread out space really is."
justanotherguyhere16
"Also, galaxies, stars, and even the Universe is constantly moving. I think time travel has been invented, but they can’t figure out the 'space' part of it.
"Yes, they can travel back in time, but relatively speaking, they can’t figure out how to navigate to the part of the planet they want to reach. So when they travel back in time, it’s relative to where they currently are, and end up not moving through space, thus ending up in the middle of an empty vacuum."
theknights-whosay-Ni
Jaws is Old
"That sharks predated the rings of Saturn."
BeardedDominant
"Sharks also developed the immune system that ended up in both dinosaurs/birds and mammals."
csiz
"We don’t know that. We can’t say for certain that the rings are only 100 million years old. It’s still debated."
The_Kek_5000
"I'm pretty sure that sharks are older than trees."
Cayderent
From the Trees
"One day I sat on a tram, passing a river. There was a duck in a tree. I realized I'd never seen ducks in trees. No one else seemed to notice, but I was puzzled. Now whenever I come across something that seems intuitive but I have never considered I call it a duck in a tree."
Ol_Pasta
"This realization happened to me this past year. We apparently have a family of wood ducks in one of the big trees in our yard. Our neighbor said she has seen a duck walking around on a branch. I made it 37 years without knowing some ducks can roost in trees. My wife caught a video of the mama leading like eight ducks into the field next to our house. We aren't even near water."
jwbourne
Artistic Timeline
Confused Eminem GIFGiphy"Pablo Picasso and Eminem were both alive at the same time."
leebon427
"I’d bet a lot of people think Picasso is a Renaissance artist."
editormatt
I admit it. I'm one of those people. Pablo and Marshall, in one lifetime.
New facts are fun.
The New World
Design Loop GIF by xponentialdesignGiphy"They were colonizing the Wild West at the same time as they were building skyscrapers in Manhattan. I always think of them taking place eighty to a hundred years apart. It's wild."
Emilayday
Oh the Power
"Nuclear power plants are just steam power plants that use nuclear reactions to heat the water. There's no fancy magic extracting energy directly from nuclear material. They just boil water and spin a turbine."
RenaKunisaki
"Most electrical generation is spinning a turbine. Photovoltaic solar power is pretty much the only exception, and it's not the only form of solar power. There's solar thermal power, which uses mirrors or lenses to concentrate the heat of the sun to make steam and turn a turbine."
Brawndo91
The Empire
"The Roman Empire fully fell less than 50 years before the discovery of the new world."
South-by-north
"The Romans also had copper wire, magnets, and battery acid. They could have invented electricity hundreds of years before it was actually discovered. But they didn't. The wire was used for jewelry, the magnets as lodestones, and the battery acid was used to clean the rust off of swords."
Kahzgul
"RIP Byzantine Empire. 1453 never forget."
crossbowman44
The Witness
"Owl‘s silent flight. I mean I always knew that but a while ago was the first time I actually witnessed it. Owl came flying towards me and landed only a few feet away and you couldn‘t hear anything. Crazy."
Zealousideal-You-324
"I saw a barn owl swoop down and catch a mouse while hiking at night, and the whole thing happened in complete silence. It gave me a deep sense of unease because it was literally like someone hit the mute button on life."
VulcanVisions
Bad Kermit
Kermit The Frog Meme GIF by IdentityGiphy"Poison dart frogs aren't poisonous in captivity."
"I own 5 of them and anytime I tell someone I own some I always get 'Do you ever lick them' or 'Can you go kill someone with them.' But yeah they get their poison from what they eat, and all I give them is fruit flies."
JMfury
Poison frogs?
That sounds like something Rose would have a story about on 'The Golden Girls.'
Redditor rentinghappiness wanted to hear about the things everyone really didn't know anything about until it happened to them, so they asked:
"What is something you used to think people were over-exaggerating about until you experienced it yourself?"
We never really know anything about anything until we try it for ourselves.
Mouth Issues
Dentist GIFGiphy"Dentist chiming in… tooth pain. I knew academically how painful they could be until it happened to me."
juneburger
"You know the pain is serious when you start looking forward to the inevitable root canal."
HailMari248
Wonders of Nature
"Giant sequoia trees. When I finally saw them in person, they looked fake. I could not comprehend a tree of that size."
schaefer001
"And we may have lost 15-20% of the remaining trees during some big fires in 2020 and 2021. A 2011 estimate puts it that there were only 80,000 remainings. They truly are wondrous organisms that I feel like everyone should have the chance to experience if they can."
"I'm a big believer in doing everything we can to protect and preserve these silent giants. It's really sad that so many were cut down by loggers when the wood is such poor quality for human purposes, to begin with. Such an utter and sad waste."
this_is_poorly_done
Just Me
"Loneliness."
Fried__SoapI
"I'm with you. Put all my cards into a girl who went suddenly cold and dark on me. Now I'm alone at rock bottom figuring out my next moves. You know, the smartest people in the world and also the happiest people in the world can be the loneliest?"
"I was only recently informed it's okay to talk to myself and hype myself. Enjoy my own company. I'm absolutely going to learn to do that. I'm thinking of painting, walking, and weekend trips out on a bus. Would be nice if you could have joined me even if we sat in silence."
Roofdragon
The Years Gone By...
"The physical pain of getting older. Damn."
marklikeadawg
"The emotional pain too. I get so nostalgic and teary over the past and how much has changed. It's a weird grieving process over losing your youth and the way things were."
heethersmeether
"On my 35th birthday, my wife woke me up with a cupcake and a candle, sang me 'Happy Birthday' and then congratulated me on being '15 from 50'... that really hit me hard. The other day I turned 45 and she said '5 from 50' and that hit me so hard, I just wanted to stay in bed all day. I still feel like an irresponsible teen but I'm pushing 50. Insane."
Opa_Kalaka
It's Hazy
Confused Always Sunny GIF by It's Always Sunny in PhiladelphiaGiphy"Brain fog. I had an alcohol withdrawal seizure in March. My short-term memory and sense of time are absolutely sh*t right now. On the plus side, I haven't had a drink in over 90 days and I don't want one."
Sideshow_Bob_Ross
Oh the wonders of the brain.
What a mess.
Scorched
Menopause Hot Flashes GIF by Kino LorberGiphy"Hot Flashes. I didn’t think they were this bad. I’m a 31-year-old man who took Wellbutrin for the past month and hot flashes are a side effect."
"I thought you just thought you were hot. No motherf**ker you are. You’re super hot legitimately, and you have to do something about it or you’ll go insane. It’s not in your head. It’s your brain raising your temps until you can’t focus on anything else."
_PswayZ_
Everlasting
"Chronic illness, there is absolutely no way you can truly understand the impact unless you experience it."
Disastrous-Phase-979
"Just that idea of always being sick and you will NEVER not be sick again."
"AND you're expected to participate in society just the same as everyone else. It's deeply f**ked up."
Farisr9k
"I like the part where I've been in pain for 25 years so I can kind of still function even when it's really bad."
"And then I try to get an ambulance guy or an admin assistant in a hospital to believe that I'm having an emergency and they're like 'You seem fine, take some Tylenol and go home' until I finally get a blood test, and then the doctor goes 'Holy crap, you're about to die, why didn't you come to the ER sooner.'"
"Like, listen up MF, I had to take a go**amn Uber to get here and then argue with reception for an hour."
BlahBlahILoveToast
Stoned
"How much a kidney stone hurts."
SpiritusSanctu
"Most people expect it to hurt the most when passing a stone through the urethra. Nothing prepared me for the pain as it passed through my kidney/ureter."
"One second I would be fine, carrying on conversations, prancing around nimbly-nimbly. The next second I would be keeled over, crying in agony, losing my lunch due to the sudden onset of crippling pain. 0/10 ... Would not recommend it."
King_of_Lunch223
Close Your Eyes
"Insomnia."
Successful_Fall7801
"Oh, what I would give to not have insomnia! I go through periods of sleeping more or less normal, and then for seemingly no reason, I’ll have weeks on end where a good night of sleep is IMPOSSIBLE. I’ll get 2-4 hours of sleep despite pills, tea, baths, white noise, meditation - everything."
"I’ll spend my days so deeply, utterly exhausted that I can barely think, and my whole body feels heavy, lifeless. It’s hard to feel any kind of emotion, let alone happiness or contentedness. Just existing as a human-shaped puddle until the time when I can go to bed and hope to god that tonight will be different for some unknown reason."
"Insomnia is a real bi*ch. It will tank your mental health and send you spiraling really fast."
thesmallshadows
Beep
Meme Reaction GIF by TravisGiphy"Tinnitus. It’s torture."
DissidentBliss
"I don't mind it much 'cause I've had it since I was born. That means I don't know what proper silence is."
77x5ghost
"Me too, they thought I had hearing issues when I was young because I couldn’t really hear some of the beeps well because they matched the pitch of the ringing."
ehter13
Don't judge another until you lace up their shoes and walk a mile in them!
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