Think back to your adolescence and you may well find that (like me) you were physically attracted to an especially handsome and spunky schoolboy, perhaps one more advanced in his physical development than you were.
Whether he and you sex-played together physically or not is immaterial, it’s the attraction that tells one that our choice of love-object is very fluid during that hormonally stormy time of our life; and that attraction, whether consummated physically or not, frequently forms the nidus of the living-out of homosexual or bisexual urges later on.
I, among countless other young men, can vouch for it.
So-called “straight” men usually flatly deny having had any sexual attraction, at any time in their lives, to even the most beautiful of young men.
Repression (à la Freud) unfortunately has a way of kicking in and unhelpfully numbing memories of many salutory and life-giving human impulses, including sexual ones, that every young human being is subject to.
Freud, again, identified societal taboos as being a, if not the, prime cause of repression of sexual impulses, and there are many examples of that (including some explicitly expressed on this forum) especially in respect of homosexuality and the physical acting-out of that by men.
If anybody here doubts me on this, perhaps they could test their reaction—or highly unlikely total lack of one—to this video of a well-grown well-oiled 18-year-old arguably very beautiful bisexual buddy of mine in our shower-cubicle.
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