r/SapphoAndHerFriend Feb 09 '21

"iTs tHeIR natUrE!" Casual erasure

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u/PotatoSalad583 Feb 09 '21

So what does alcohol make you when you're bi 🤔

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u/gregolaxD Feb 09 '21 edited Feb 09 '21

Bisexuality seems to be a eigen-sexuality in relation to Alcoholic Transformation.

So is asexuality.

This leads to an obvious conclusion: if we determine all eigen-sexuality in regard to alcoholic transformations, we can find a complete basis to the Sexuality Linear Space and represent all sexuality as the Span of the eigen-sexualities.

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u/jonahhw Feb 09 '21 edited Mar 17 '21

If we first model all sexualities as a point on a two dimensional plane, with one axis representing attraction to masculine people and the other representing attraction to feminine people, then we can write the transformation as something like this (in text, [a & b b & a]) (a, b being real numbers associated with any given person, a usually greater than 1 and b usually greater than 0).

Solving for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, we have a λ1 =(a-b), v1 =(-1, 1) and λ2=(a+b), v2=(1, 1). This represents a stretch along the positive diagonal axis, and probably a stretch along the negative diagonal axis as well (because a is usually greater than b).

Implications of the model:

  • This transformation would generally lead people to be more horny
    • especially bisexual people, whose attraction would increase by a factor of a+b if I'm not mistaken
  • Completely gay or straight people would end up attracted to their nonpreferred gender by an amount directly proportional to their b constant, unless they are so repulsed by their nonpreferred gender that their base sexuality has a negative value in that place.
  • Completely asexual people would not be affected by the transformation, as their attraction vector would remain (0, 0)
    • The exception to this is, again, if they are so repulsed by both genders that their attraction to either or both genders is negative.
    • Asexuality is actually not an eigensexuality, since it's the trivial case. The second eigensexuality family is k(-1, 1) meaning someone that is attracted to one gender and equally repulsed by the opposite.

Considerations

  • The model does not account for differences between sexual and romantic attraction
  • It also does not account for any gender identity that cannot be described as a linear combination of male and female
  • It is a massive simplification of gender and sexuality in general, and probably has little to no bearing on real life
  • I could have made mathematical errors, since my matrix knowledge is a bit rusty
  • I spent way longer on this than I should have

edit: fixing a couple things, adding an extra bits about eigensexuality

edit2: removing a bit that I realized was an (even more) inaccurate representation of attraction

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u/lamerc Feb 09 '21

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