There's been an exciting development for Ebook Thursday. I'm working with Bam and will be reviewing an ebook on her site now and then. I read the first book last night and wrote up my review, but I'm not sure when it's going up so keep an eye on her site (like you didn't do that already).

Interesting sidenote. The book I reviewed had m/m sex in addition to straight sex, which I've never really read before. It wasn't something I'd have picked up on my own but I ended up liking it. Not the m/m sex, per se, but the book. And that speaks to something I said on Kate Rothwell's blog last night. (I know, I'm a jackass for quoting myself, but I have a point, I promise!)

I guess I don't understand the mentality of saying you can't "handle" something without ever trying it. If you hate it after you start reading, never buy that author again. But if you never try, you're limiting yourself incredibly and restricting your own experiences in a way I find incomprehensible. Then again, I'm the person who will take the bite somebody offers me, even if it looks gross and I don't know what it is. I fell in love with a sludgy looking Indian dish that way. It's spinach and mushrooms, looks utterly disgusting, like a dark green slime, but it's way tasty.

So that said, I'm going to widen the net regarding the whole "how do you know you don't like it if you've never tried it" thing. I think, at base, human beings are inherently bisexual. (At this point, people are going to come out of the woodwork to tell me that they've never tried jumping off a building but are sure they wouldn't like THAT so the same thing must apply to sexual exploration). Nonetheless, I think before society influences people with preconceived gender roles, human beings instinctively possess the potential to be attracted to either sex.

Why? Well, in prepubescence, it's common for both boys and girls to experience "crushes" on the same sex. Experimentation is common too. Sure, it's hormones to some degree, and they grow out of it, but how much of that stems from truly not wanting to repeat the experience and how much from assimilating that it runs counter to the societal norm? On another site, some smarter poster said she thought human sexuality runs a spectrum, like bi with tendencies toward the male. I think that's probably true and more reasonable than black and white classifications. I also tend to think people who are so frightened and revolted by different possibilities may have some shadowy places in their psyches that they're afraid to delve.

Feel free to disagree with me.

Also, I'm dying for some Indian food. Can anyone remember the name of the sludgy mushroom / spinach dish? I want some and I wouldn't know the name right now to order it, even when I find a restaurant that offers the cuisine. Maybe some of you mad Googlers out there could help me out?

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