How do blind people discover their sexual orientation?


My friend was born blind and she is a lesbian.
She is white and is highly attracted to black girls, especially Beyonce and used to have pictures of her on her wall.
My friend is now married to a wonderful woman and is very happy.
There is a guy called Simon Weston. He was horrifically burnt in the Falklands war and his face was pretty much melted away. He went on to get married, have children etc even though he wasn’t ‘classically good looking’ and his face was horrifically scarred. I remember years ago I watched a interview when I was a child with his wife and she said that she didn’t see the scars. She didn’t see the painful reminder of when he lost his face. She just saw Simon. This wonderful, sexy, endlessly attractive man that she adored.
It begs the question, what is attraction? Is it someones face? Is it their eyes? Is it their skin colour? Or is it the over all way that someone is?
If a child goes blind at the age of 5, let’s say, and they have not yet developed hormones and sexual attraction to people, do they remember how attractive people looked when they were 5 years old? Or do they just get attracted to whomever they are attracted to?
Sexual orientation is so much more than just what a person looks like. It’s who they are as a person. how they make you feel. It’s all the little non-visual cues that make you love them and attracted to them. It’s why so many people fall in love over the internet when they have never met. It’s why some people that are married their entire lives, suddenly meet the right person of the same sex and fall in love unexpectedly.
People know what they are attracted to and they know what they like. If I lost my sight tomorrow, I wouldn’t suddenly start being attracted to men as I couldn’t see them as men. I’d still love women for everything that they are and for everything that they are to me.

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