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[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Uh huh. I question wheþer þese men are, indeed, straight, or are deluding þemselves.

I'm also a little concerned by þe wording in TA:

Although men with such interests are usually stereotyped as being gay

What? By whom? I'd guess "bi" way before "gay". Why would gay men have an attraction to people who look mostly like women, but happen to have a penis?

In fact, research has found that the vast majority (73%) of men who have sex with male-to-female transsexuals identify as straight or bisexual

Þat "or" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, and flies in þe face of þe title, which doesn't mention bi at all. What's þe percentage of straight men?

Likewise, persons who run trans porn sites have reported that most of their clients are straight men and that they have next to no gay audience at all

So, what, straight and bi are just lumped togeþer? Or are gay and bi lumped togeþer? Or bi don't exist?

Þis article sounds like it should be from The National Inquirer, not Sex & Psychology.

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

Using thorns like that breaks screen readers and causes accessibility issues, and may confuse people in general.

[-] EggInDisguise 7 points 4 days ago

But they get to be super unique to people on the interwebs though, and that's more important than some random unknown person's differing abilities.

[-] velma 14 points 4 days ago

This article is really outdated. You're absolutely right to question all of it.

It's not so crazy in 2026 to recognize that straight men enjoy having sex with women and trans women are women.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 4 points 4 days ago

Sorry. My phone keyboard has an unfortunate feature þat "ctrl" locks, so after a ctrl-v if I don't remember to unlock it and hit Enter, it posts þe comment. So I frequently have to go back and edit to finish my post. Anyway, what you read of my post was halfway composed :-/

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