Gay but attracted to a woman

People who identify as straight are attracted to the opposite gender, while people who identify as gay or lesbian are attracted to the same gender. Those who identify as bisexual are attracted to more than one genderand people who identify as pansexual are attracted to people regardless of gender.

His video is all of a few seconds long, but it took a while for May to understand the nuances of his attraction and articulate how he feels. There are, he said, a handful of men and women whom he was attracted to both sexually and emotionally, but even that can get tricky.

His TikTok video on the topic currently hasviews. The path is clear, society has made it clear. The physical attraction to men is dominating. Right now, however, he said he prefers to try and find that match in a man. The realization of being sexually attracted to men and emotionally attracted to women was also tricky for Luka Hauptmann, a year-old English teacher from Munich, Germany.

For Hauptmann, whose TikTok explaining his attraction now has aroundviews, there are also nuances to the nuance—he said that he always had a sense of finding both men and women attractive, but only recently understood that they pull him in in different ways.

Before relationships, however, Hauptmann thinks people should first understand and accept the many ways they can be attracted to other people. There are so many different layers of attraction. Follow Romano Santos on Instagram.

What It’s Like To Be Sexually Attracted to Men but Emotionally Attracted to Women

By Ashley Fike. By Stephen Andrew Galiher. By Matt Jancer. By Sammi Caramela. Videos by VICE.