I feel that this is about the point in the essay where I should say I'm only using boys because I am too lazy to constantly write out "folk who like girls"
I have long thought we needed nice one-word terms to identify people who are attracted to men and people who are attracted to women. It's much too awkward to, say, post a picture of a hot guy and call it "eye candy for straight and bi women, gay and bi men, and people who don't call themselves 'men' or 'women' who are attracted to men." But limiting and misleading to not say all that! Androphile and gynephile would work, I suppose, but they sound weird and clinical.
I also do not shave my legs or armpits, because I prefer myself hairy, and I don't really care what anyone else thinks. (Though David finds hairless legs and pits more attractive, so occasionally I'll shave for a romantic evening with him, just to be GGG about the whole thing.) I only make a point of shaving or covering up in public if it's a really formal thing like a wedding reception or job interview.
Funny story: the other day, I was waiting at the bus stop. I was wearing a tanktop and put my hands on my hips. I could actually feel the breeze blowing gently through my pit hair! My first thought was, "This is so pleasant." And my second was, "And nobody I know in real life would appreciate this story."
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I have long thought we needed nice one-word terms to identify people who are attracted to men and people who are attracted to women. It's much too awkward to, say, post a picture of a hot guy and call it "eye candy for straight and bi women, gay and bi men, and people who don't call themselves 'men' or 'women' who are attracted to men." But limiting and misleading to not say all that! Androphile and gynephile would work, I suppose, but they sound weird and clinical.
I also do not shave my legs or armpits, because I prefer myself hairy, and I don't really care what anyone else thinks. (Though David finds hairless legs and pits more attractive, so occasionally I'll shave for a romantic evening with him, just to be GGG about the whole thing.) I only make a point of shaving or covering up in public if it's a really formal thing like a wedding reception or job interview.
Funny story: the other day, I was waiting at the bus stop. I was wearing a tanktop and put my hands on my hips. I could actually feel the breeze blowing gently through my pit hair! My first thought was, "This is so pleasant." And my second was, "And nobody I know in real life would appreciate this story."