Well, being a homosexual man, I do find that women tend to feel comfortable around me - as Erin pointed out, it's not like I'm going to be staring at their chests. However, men don't feel quite as comfortable when my eyes are drawn to their crotches. So it's a trade off. I'm sure a straight man would love to be as comfortable around female strangers as me. On the other hand, I feel more awkward around men.
I really like Erin's spiritual perspective on homosexuality, that we are sexless beings in the spiritual realm, so whether our physical forms are attracted to others of the same sex isn't necessarily right or wrong. Also, Erin says that people like me have chosen to be homosexual, well, that must be something I'm not conscious of. I don't think I would have chosen to be homosexual, at least not at the time that I became aware of it, there was a lot of stigma and I wanted to kill myself, now I'm much more comfortable with it. As I become an increasingly spiritual person, I will reconcile with the reasons I chose homosexuality. At least on a practical level, I don't think it was a very convenient decision.
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