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View Poll Results: How old were you when you first realised you were attracted to guys ?
0-5 years old 7 6.73%
6-10 years old 22 21.15%
11-15 years old 58 55.77%
16-20 years old 13 12.50%
21-25 years old 3 2.88%
26-30 years old 1 0.96%
31-35 years old 0 0%
Older than 35 0 0%
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Old 02-11-07   #1 (permalink)
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When did you realise you were attracted to guys ?

This is a subtly different question than when did you realise you were gay, as some people will, I'm sure, agree that it can take time for people (particularly children) to make the association between one and the other ...

I've put some poll options to guide you. This will be interesting I hope, and hopefully the question hasn't been asked before ...

... and I've tried to word the question deliberately so that bisexuals can answer it too .

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I was 6, and I'd just like to take this opportunity to say a special dedication to He-Man.

THANK YOU HE-MAN FOR SHOWING ME THE LIGHT !!!!!

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I am not sure when i first realized but it took time to admit it to myself and others. However the dude from the thundercats and He-man was strangely attractive!
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Its difficult, cos when i was a child (younger than 11) i used to have sort of a 'curiosity' but i wasn't conscious i 'liked men', that came when older.
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God...this is something that you almost have to look back to recognise, becasue at such a young age you don't really understand. Even before five I was "playing" with my male friends. This kind of play continued all the way through high school.....becomming much more than play, although I never accepted I was gay until about 20.

I had girlfriends and sex with them, but at the same time I was having sex with boys/men and then locking those experiences away in the "we don't think about it" box.

But looking back I can see that I had serious same sex attractions from the very earliest of ages. And my family was very conservative! No nurture there. It was all me baby!
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Why you little tiger !!!!! .

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Who you callin' little?!

The furthest back I can remember had to be around five with my friend Kirk. I remember everyone used to call him "little fat Kirk"...(How aweful). We had a play room at our house and we used to play....I also had "play time" ;-) with a couple of the babysitters from up the street (twin brothers)...nothing major but there WAS touching.

Wow, I just realized I HAD my twin fantasy and it was before I could really appreciate it! Bummer.
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I was 6, and I'd just like to take this opportunity to say a special dedication to He-Man.

THANK YOU HE-MAN FOR SHOWING ME THE LIGHT !!!!!

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Putting it in that context.. then perhaps maybe I was around that age too... my like for muscle guys was around then too. I'd try to catch some wrestling on tv and the like.

School story: In primary school, our playground was split into two sections - the quiet playground and the main playground. Between the two was a set of stairs that had a barrier that went around a corner. Bundles often happened in that corner because a few of the other bigger lads always thought it was fun to squash anyone standing there... and I think I had a strange fetish for hanging around at that corner!! lol
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I think I was between 6 and 10 years. I always thought actors on TV a lot more beautiful ...
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well i was probably 11 when i realized i wasn't attracted to girls, then when i was 12 i really realized that i was attracted to guys
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Coolies ... so the trend thusfar *he says, whipping out a pointy implement and pointing at his graph* seems to be zat ze boys are becomink sekzually attrakted to ze uzzer boyz ven zey are reachink puberty ...

This is very interesting ...

But not, I suppose, overly surprising ... .

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... and wouldlikemuscle, it sounds like your sexual fantasies and mine started out very similarly - I have always been attracted to stronger and more muscular boys aaaaall my life ... unfortunately they almost universally have turned out to be straight !! *sigh*.

I'm so lucky to have my partner though - Shelfy is SUPAlush .

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I realize when I was 13; me and my friends always play to kiss each other with no advice (girl and boy only) but one day my friend christian just get close to me, grab my face and give me a kiss and I do not know, in that moment I realize that I like kiss guys and not girls, in any kiss before I have felt the sparks that I felt in that one.

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I must have been ten when I actually experienced holding another boy's pubescent (therefore hairy) appendage in full erection in my hand and wondering (marvelling) at how warm it was and how thick it was... That's all I did, hold it for a while. I was with another mate at the time, so three of us in a very dark garage. He didn't make us wank him. It was exhilarating and yet quite clinical, I suppose.
Then I started drawing and lots of my drawings were of two males doing it together... so from then on, I kind of figured it out.
However, I think I clicked on the 11-15 button...
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I think my first stirrings came from early Tarzan on TV...

Must have been 8 or 9...

at 10 was sure when I saw Brian and his perfect nipples... I HAVE A THING FOR NIPPLES

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Well I figured it out when I was about ...maybe 8?
I was attracted to my step brother.
He had big muscles and I remember I would hang from one of his arms and his sister from the other!
I used to sniff his dirty underwear.
This is soooo embarrassing....
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The very first time, I remember I was 5 or 6, I was watching MTV with my baby sitter and there was a music video with shirtless guy. I didn't realize at the time, but I had a pretty "nice" reaction at the view ahahah :)
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Erm, well I guess when I was young I knew I was different from my mates but just didnt know why then I went through a time of thinking it was just a phase and I would grow out of it n that was stupid.

It took me till I was around 20 to actually admit it and then 22 to do sommit bout it, so I am sorta new to it all

Now i just regret the years I missed really but al get ova it jst need to find sum1 nice now...and my life will be complete lol
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... This is soooo embarrassing....
You do realise that answering isn't compulsory?
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