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morning/evening all. i just want to talk for a bit about the woman im dating currently....get some advice if you will. she is what i believe to be a true bisexual (no need to get into the reasons i believe that to be...just that i believe her to be one). for backround her first relationship was with a guy..(short term) then she moved into a LTR with a woman and then spent about eh..5 or 6 weeks dating a guy again before me (we have been dating now for about 6 weeks).

everything with us has been going really well and i as a woman who has only dated lesbian women previously got a pretty big shock when we were talking the other night about past relationships and what put "spark" back into them and she mentioned that with her ex gf they used heterosexual porn. i dont know what it was about that moment however all of a sudden i found myself like...cringing and being REALLY not ok with that idea at all for us...she immedately said that it was totally fine if the time ever came that we NOT watch that stuff however i just couldnt get out of my mind the idea that yes..she did date guys and yes she is attracted to guys in a sexual way (i do realize btw that the hetero porn thing is not exclusive to heteros or bi's...this was just the catalyst that brought all this on)

since that time ive been thinking alot about things of this nature and how to help make myself feel more secure when things like this come up. there is no particular reason i can think of to feel threatened even a little bit by a liking of matthew mccaunghey or her making passing statements about the opposite sex and attractiveness...heck...or even to be threatened by heterosexual adult entertainment but i am a tiny bit. nor should she be forced to endure me making a face or ever making snippy comments about it. this is who she is and i wouldnt want to change that.

make no mistake..this is a me issue and has nothing to do with anything shes said or done and i feel a bit silly at 30 even thinking about this but alas i cant help it right now.

any advice here would be more than welcome.

 

pyc2star

 


em's picture

bisexual girlfriend

i also have a girlfriend who's bisexual and she's dated guys in the past too. but we don't have the porn issue. most of the time i forget that she's interested or whatever in both sexes. i just see her as the love of my life. but whenever it does come up i get very touchy. i understand. i don't think i'd have as much of an issue if she commented on girls... but i feel really threatened by guys.

the best decision i made, in this area, was talking to her about it. she'll laugh about my inner panic attacks but she tries her best to let me know that she's not going to leave me or cheat or anything like that.

i'm pretty sure the insecurities and paranoia isn't going to vanish or even weaken any time soon, but the best (and only) thing that helps me is to remember that she's not going to hurt me and that she loves me.

i don't know of anything that'll "solve" the problem. but it might be a comfort to know you're not alone.

Amy M's picture

Strengthen what's good in the relationship

Maybe you could focus on doing things that strengthen the relationship (ie taking a vacation together, doing things that foster a commitment. etc.)

I'm a little surprised about her turning to "hetero porn" though, as my experience is that men in "straight porn" are almost always ugly.

Sapphic Owl's picture

Don't be worried

My gf and I have been together the same amount of time, and she's, at least emotionally, totally lesbian. But we have watched hetero porn together. Didn't really lead to anything. I know by the way she talks and her reactions to men, that she's not gonna watch some porn and run out like, "Ooh, I want penis."

You should note though, the studies that say that no matter what a woman declares her orientation to be, when the clits are hooked up to sensors, we get aroused by everything, gay, staight, gorilla. Lol.

It probably just arouses her physically and you do everything else for her both physically and mentally.

You probably have some weird fetish you might or might not realize that would freak her out if you told her too, so hey. We all have something.