Regarding straight being the default: given that over 90% of people are straight, it seems irrational to consider anything other than straight to be the 'default' sexuality. Given the attitudes to homosexuality in a large portion of society, it also seems to me that assuming that someone is striaght is much less likely to cause offence than assuming otherwise.
Asexuality is something that I've never really thought of much before. It's got me wondering about related concerns, like: Is there a corresponding term for people who experience (and act on) sexual attraction but don't form romantic relationships? (a quick skim of the wikipedia article on asexuality doesn't mention such a thing) Does "horribly repressed Englishman" count as a sexual orientation?
I'm also kind of imagining now a kind of multi-dimensional Kinsey scale as a projective plane, with asexuality being the "point at infinity" at which all lines intersect. Not claiming that this is a particularly good way of looking at it but for a mathematician, your livejournal doesn't contain anywhere near enough maths. :-p
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Asexuality is something that I've never really thought of much before. It's got me wondering about related concerns, like: Is there a corresponding term for people who experience (and act on) sexual attraction but don't form romantic relationships? (a quick skim of the wikipedia article on asexuality doesn't mention such a thing) Does "horribly repressed Englishman" count as a sexual orientation?
I'm also kind of imagining now a kind of multi-dimensional Kinsey scale as a projective plane, with asexuality being the "point at infinity" at which all lines intersect. Not claiming that this is a particularly good way of looking at it but for a mathematician, your livejournal doesn't contain anywhere near enough maths. :-p