One of the things I learned in my youthful development as a bisexual male was… there really were people who were afraid of me because I liked having sex with boys – and one day down the road realizing that this part of me was the only thing they saw and, sometimes, being accused of faking it by having sex with girls in order to hide my true homosexuality.
That’s about the time I began to understand how… stupid people can be and, no, I don’t use “stupid” lightly but “ignorant” is a better – but harsher – word. I also found out that there’s a lot of silly shit that takes place when you’re on the inside of this and beginning with the perception and assumption that other guys are exactly like you in this and if they aren’t, well, what’s wrong with you?
Get comfortable: This is gonna take a while.
Even back in the day, we learned about gay dudes. First, they all act like girls; next, they all suck dick and swallow cum; next, they all fuck each other in the ass. I’m out of the gate and found that I liked a dick in my mouth, thought that cum tasted pretty good, and I liked being poked in the butt. My male friends, as I would learn, were out of the gate or wanted to be and, for the most part, we were all versatile in these things… until we learned what we liked, what we didn’t, as well as who we liked doing something with or not.
We quickly learned about personal preference and, importantly, preference based upon actual experience versus developing a preference – and usually a dislike – based upon what someone else said they didn’t like, i.e., that infamous “it’s gonna hurt if a guy sticks it in your butt” thing and there wasn’t a one of us who hadn’t heard this and, as such, some guys weren’t of a mind to find out for themselves; some guys wanted to be screwed in the butt… but don’t stick it in too far, okay? Some guys wanted to do some fucking but they couldn’t stay hard enough to get it in – the list goes on.
And, yeah, if you’re not gonna do it fairly, then you’re weird. Jump ahead many decades and where some are calling this internalized biphobia and those of you who follow me already knows how I feel about this but this is about confusing this specious and questionable phobia with personal preference.
Now, the perception that I had to grow up with being bisexual is that because I have sex with guys, I do it all, which was the truth with me – but not with all guys because, duh, you quickly learn some shit about this and in those terms I mentioned earlier. But it’s not just a matter of personal preference – it’s also about how you’re feeling at any given time, like, one guy was giving me shit about my not wanting to be fucked and all because I didn’t feel like it – but I was supposed to “bend over and grab my ankles” because he believed that I had to. And he called me a fake – but what he didn’t know was that before running into him, I’d already been screwed three times and my butt was sore and I didn’t feel like it – and he didn’t bother to ask me why I didn’t want to be screwed – but it was easier for him to assume some shit that wasn’t the truth.
And not only to a lot of people “outside of the circle” do this, those of us who are within the circle tend to do this because once we get exposed to this, we get into a “this is the way it’s supposed to be” mindset and purely based on what we like and all that – as well as the misconception that if you’re a boy and you have sex with boys, you do all of the sex that’s possible.
And if you don’t, well, something’s wrong with you and these days, many are calling it a form of biphobia and, okay, I’m not sure how a guy can be bisexual but have a fear of bisexuals – but I do understand how a guy can have some internal dissonance about it because there isn’t one of us who doesn’t know that guys are not supposed to have sex with guys – but here comes the reality and it’s handing you its beer.
Like, I knew guys who hated the fact that they liked having sex with guys. Some kind of internalized bi- or homophobia? No – that’s the conflict that the taboo causes. I knew guys who wanted to dive into the pool, but they wouldn’t… because they knew they were going to like it… and, yep, not supposed to.
Some kind of phobia? Nope – internal dissonance and, I learned, guys who really had an innate understanding of themselves because they knew if they sucked a dick, they were gonna love the shit out of it… and get the gay label nailed onto them and, okay, let’s not go there.
I remember the moment when it seemed that we all went from being versatile to… specializing or the top/bottom thing as we call it today because, again, every last one of us learned what we liked, what we didn’t, and who we liked stuff with and didn’t so much. And then, sometimes, it depended on… something. Like, one hot summer day, I needed to be screwed so bad that my whole body was hurting and the only guy around was… a guy I learned that I didn’t like it when he screwed me. Now it’s any port in a storm and… he screwed me, I didn’t like it – again – but it took care of my problem just the same and he went on my “in case of emergency” list in my head or I had to want to be fucked seriously bad if I’d let him do it.
Or, as in a current forum post, presuming biphobia in a guy because… he won’t kiss a guy and in the face of the perception that if you’re bi and you’d kiss a woman, then kissing a guy… has to be the way of things and if you don’t, well, you have internalized biphobia! Um, no, you don’t because even I learned – and grudgingly so – that there were guys I liked to kiss and guys who I wouldn’t kiss for all the tea in China because, as many girls said, guys are lousy kissers. It’s not that I can’t kiss a guy and it’s not like I’ve never kissed a guy but – and I ‘hate’ to put it this way – I prefer not to kiss guys.
My protege had an FWB who loved to suck his dick and take it in the ass – and exactly as my protege believed since his FWB said that he was a bottom – and that role got defined rather rigidly, i.e., if you’re a bottom, you’re “the girl” and you suck the top’s dick, swallow his cum (and on command) and take his dick in your ass – and you cannot complain or refuse.
One day, my protege hits me up and asks, “Why don’t guys want to use their dick like men are supposed to?” and I found the question kinda amusing but, okay, let’s see where he’s going with this. He tells me that he and his FWB are doing the need and my protege wanted to suck his FWB off – and the guy had a major meltdown about it. My protege tells me that the reason why his FWB melted down was because of… internalized bi-/homophobia and went on a serious rant along those lines and when I could get a word in I asked him, “Did you ask him why he didn’t want to be sucked off?”
Then ripped him a new one over making assumptions the way he did – and right in line with the bullshit being said about bisexuality and biphobia. He didn’t speak to me for a while after I tore into him about it but he eventually returns to tell me that, yeah, he asked the guy and, as it turned out, the reason why he didn’t want to be sucked off was because he had body image issues: Because he didn’t have a big dick and like all Black men are supposed to, he believed that his below-average prick wasn’t good enough to be sucked.
Which is a whole different kettle of fish that has nothing to do with any phobia although, admittedly, almost all guys who get their dick sucked by a guy are afraid of it… because they really don’t know what’s going to happen even though (a) they may have been sucked by a girl/woman and (b) they know that there are guys who suck dick. That’s not bi-/homophobia – that’s the fear of the unknown and as crazy as that sounds. Okay. Bear with me and if you have to go potty, handle it.
A week later, my protege hits me up and he’s livid because he wanted his FWB to fuck him and his FWB wasn’t having any of it. Went on another rant about internalized biphobia and not being man enough to use his cock and like men are supposed to do and… I laid into him again about this shit and said a lot of shit about personal preference. His FWB was a bottom and a guy who, like a lot of guys, chose to be in this role and for a lot of reasons and including a belief that they couldn’t be a top, which isn’t biphobia but some internal dissonance – mindfucking themselves – and, well, it “doesn’t make sense” but it is what it has always been and I knew this… and I had to teach this to my protege and get him to understand that you must always respect a guy’s preferences. Your preferences do not and cannot override his and I don’t much give a fuck what you think… unless you’re involved with one of those guys who likes other guys to impose their will upon them – and that’s a preference and one that such a guy developed via thought or deed.
A guy gives me shit because I won’t suck his dick and like I’m supposed to and, what, I must be a homophobe! He’s on a rant about what I’m supposed to do, and he never bothered to ask me why I wouldn’t suck his dick – it was because I had a toothache, by the way – but, man, did he go off on me because of his perceptions and, well, do we not tend to believe perception over truth?
Then he declared that I wasn’t bisexual because I obviously had a problem with it. He basically accused me of suffering from internalized biphobia. Felt like nine kinds of a fool when I told him why I wasn’t going to suck his dick and then got pissed when I told him that I was going to let him fuck me but since I’m all kinds of fucked up and all that, well, he blew his chance to bust a nut in me.
My gay boyfriend taught me a hard lesson about personal preference and one I will never forget. The young adult lover I had taught me more about personal preference and gave me more insight about how some guys decide on what they will or won’t do. In both situations, I wanted and needed them to fuck me because of how I felt about them. They didn’t want to, but I insisted, and they did and, whew, did I ever get screwed! And… they didn’t like it.
I fucked up with my boyfriend – but decades later, I understood why my younger lover wasn’t fond of it but because he was a newbie, he was learning what he liked and didn’t, what he would do and what he preferred not to do.
In these things, it’s not that a guy can’t do a thing because he can if you can make a good case as to why he should – but it is all about what he prefers to do and based upon everything he’s learned about having sex with a guy… and there’s no way in hell that you can call this internalized biphobia.
But there are those within the circle who will presume and assume this and especially about men kissing men. No phobias involved in this; they just don’t want to, and you have to respect that and then understand that what you think he should do does not ever trump what he prefers to do or that which he is willing to do.
Never. I’ve been with guys who were seriously keen to suck my dick… but I wasn’t allowed to suck theirs. Made – and still makes – me crazy because I’m a cocksucker, too – but this is all about respecting their preferences. The many guys who wanted me to screw them but, no thanks – they have no need to screw me. It’s all about preference when you get right down to it but, fuck, there are those in and out of the circle who are quick to assume that biphobia – and the internalized variety – is the reason why a guy will not have sex in every way two guys can do it.
I know guys who’ll fuck a woman in the ass in a heartbeat but ask him if he’d fuck a guy in the ass… and sit back and enjoy the show as he tells you every stereotypical reason why he wouldn’t do that. That’s not a phobia – that’s belief and the belief that men are not supposed to fuck each other. Still, some would call it internalized bi-/homophobia because we keep believing that men who have sex with each other, they not only do everything but if they do X with a woman, they’re supposed to do X with men, too.
Not if they don’t prefer to. Not if they don’t want to. And you gotta be fucking kidding me.
A guy online is going on a tangent about how he’s going to fuck me stupid – even though I told him that I don’t prefer to be fucked. He then goes off on me because not only am I supposed to do whatever he wants me to do, I must be a homophobe and I’m a fake bisexual.
One of the things I learned about people is that when something doesn’t go or work the way they expect it, we also assume and presume the worse about them and often without bothering to ask them why they won’t comply – and sometimes, asking why and not accepting the answer as the truth of what they’re saying.
I quickly learned that the adults who preached at us to not have sex because it was dirty and nasty… weren’t just talking about the act itself. I can’t tell you how many guys I ran into who felt that I had to have sex with them the way they wanted to – and I wasn’t supposed to refuse for any reason – and if I did, I was fake and, again, suffering from internalized biphobia.
“You tell me how I can be bisexual – and have been bisexual for as long as I’ve been – but I’m suffering from this biphobia bullshit,” I asked a guy who accused me of this because I was supposed to let him fuck me and didn’t want to hear that I didn’t prefer to be. He didn’t want to hear that I have been fucked before and it’s not like I won’t spread my cheeks – but it’s situational with me now and I prefer it that way.
Nope. Internalized biphobia and my coming to understand that this bullshit doesn’t necessarily come out of the mouths of heterosexuals: This in “within the circle” bullshit that somebody invented because there are people who don’t believe that people should be bisexual and now implying that, by definition, they have an irrational fear of bisexuals… when chances are good that they don’t – they just do not believe in same sex behaviors and, of course, that’s because they’re not supposed to.
This is one of those things where I say that gay men… didn’t do us bi guys any favors because their sexual and romantic behaviors on the whole is the standard that bi guys get held to as well. All gay men suck dick and swallow cum, and all gay men fuck each other, and all gay men want you to be their boyfriend and madly in love with them.
And, today, if you’re a bi guy and you do not behave this way… internalized bi-/homophobia. What gets totally overlooked is that as a budding bisexual male, we not only have to learn how to have sex with a guy, you can bet your ass that we will eventually and inevitably learn what we like, what we don’t like and definitely who we like doing stuff with.
Is there fear and trepidation at first? Yup. But, again, that’s not a phobia unless you want to call our inherent fear of the unknown a phobia and that’s some very real shit and not an irrational fear but, okay, it could be but that’s just how we are a species. Doesn’t make sense for us to be like this but it’s normal. A guy tells me that he wants to suck a dick but he’s afraid to and that is not some kind of phobia; he’s afraid to because he’s probably heard horror stories about sucking a guy’s dick; he’s feeling some kind of way about wanting to do something that he knows he’s not supposed to think about; he really doesn’t know what it’s going to be like or what’s going to happen and, classically, he’s afraid that if he does, it’s going to make him gay or, gasp, he’s going to catch HIV and die a horrible death.
Between the fear of the unknown and believing that the worse is going to happen to them, yeah, sure, I’ve sat and watched a guy go through some shit in his head because he’s aware of these things and intelligently knows that it could go wrong because it has for some guys – but he really wants to suck my dick and if he’s going to be able to do this, it’s my job and duty to clue him into the reality that I learned.
And if you find that you can’t do it, there’s no phobias involved. I know that just because I’m not afraid of this doesn’t mean that all guys should be fearless because the truth is… having sex with a guy for the first time is some seriously scary shit. But if you can set those fears aside, you’re going to learn what you like, what you don’t, and, yeah, that there are some guys you’ll do stuff with and some guys you just won’t… and it becomes personal preference and not that internalized biphobia bullshit.
And the thing that really drove this home for me? I had an irrational fear of… uncut dicks. Uglier than anything I’d ever seen. Not even going to suck it and I don’t care how much I want to suck a dick; stick it in my ass because if it’s in there, I can’t see it.
And then, I realized that I had a problem with it… and I shouldn’t. I’d talked to women about this and some didn’t care if the guy was uncut… and a lot of women did care and had some real-world shit to say about it and beginning with some uncut guys not being taught to wash under their foreskin and the guys who didn’t… smelled very badly and I even learned why and… science stuff associated with smegma and how it can stink to all holy hell when exposed to air – and, yes, women can have it under their clitoral hood and it’ll make their pussy smell like shit is they don’t wash under the hood.
See, I knew all of this (and then some) and, nope, if you’re uncut, I’m not sucking you and I knew I had a phobia about it and I hated that I did. I knew that women are… uncut but I wouldn’t think twice about sucking the shit out of their clit. You see my problem, don’t you?
It took me 41 years to suck an uncut dick and then, it was an omission on my part and his because, normally when you’re negotiating for a blowjob, you say whether you’re cut or not. He didn’t say and I didn’t ask. He shows up, gets naked and… fuck – he’s not cut. My phobia had a fit and that’s being nice about it: I was afraid to suck his dick but knew I had no reason to be. Now it’s a matter of honor because I gave him my word that I would suck his dick and there was no way I was going to tell him, nope, calling the deal off and… is there really and truly something that I can’t do? My word to him and my belief in myself but… how to suck him?
A woman told me how to suck an uncut dick: “Pull his foreskin down and expose the head – and look for that smelly, yellow stuff and if it’s there, make him go wash his dick. Once you pull the skin down, keep it pulled down and go to town on him.”
That’s what I did and, yeah, there were moments when I hadn’t had him “peeled,” and… I enjoyed the fuck out of sucking his dick. Phobia met and conquered – finally – and after the guy left, I was pissed because now I’m thinking about all the dicks I could have sucked but I didn’t because I had a phobia. Not preference or anything but a real deal phobia.
There’s preference. There is internal dissonance due to the taboo and social stigma. I’d even say that homophobia is real and not all that irrational because it’s a fear that was given to us via religion. There are, sadly, people who believe that they’re afraid of bisexuals and probably because you can’t look a someone and tell that they’re bisexual and, yep, like you can with some gay folks – but like homophobia, we are imposing this fear on others and, just as sadly, a lot of bisexuals are being made to believe that they have biphobia and just because they don’t have sex with guys and do it all and as a matter of course.
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