Ask A Genius 160 – Sex Flex
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/04/26
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Rick Rosner: Lesbianism is, I would guess, is one of the more flexible designations given that it has fewer social taboos attached to it. More people like the idea of two women making out. It seems more harmless than two men making out. So who knows what percentage of women make out with a girl in college, if it becomes easier and less brutal to experiment with one’s sex, people will do it.
It may never reach more than 15% of the population embracing non-heterosexual lifestyles, but it is more than 3 times the amount of now. 15% of the population means everybody will be friends and close friends with, and in family relationships with, and in other relationships with, somebody who is not traditionally heterosexual. And society has wide swathes of it that tries to deny the presence of non-heterosexuality in their sphere.
It will be impossible. North Carolina is fighting the anti-LGBTQ legislation that has been roiling for a couple of years now. So medicine will make people more willing to experiment. Social media has been and will continue to be promoting of non-heterosexual lifestyles. If you don’t know that anybody else is like you, say you have trans feelings, nobody came out as trans in past decades at all.
There were a lot of late in life people coming out as trans. There will still. Trans people come out earlier and earlier because people now know it is a thing and can reach out via social media to get information and to find other families with the same issues. That empowers people. That will continue to be a disruptive force. You can say people should be cool with it and it shouldn’t be a disruptive force, but big chunks of the country and the world aren’t cool with it at first and then freak out about it.
It will continue to be disruptive into the near and mid future.
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