When I was 7 or 8, my first real exposure to the concept of homosexuality came to me by watching the movie "Norman... Is That You?" on TV, starring Redd Foxx. Somehow, I got the idea that Foxx's son was worried his father would think the son was gay, when really he wasn't, he was just the "real man" in a relationship with a gay man. In other words, I thought that gay men were men who wished they were women, and so they liked straight men; and because of this, a straight man could be in love with a gay man, but not be gay himself.
I know. That's what you get from learning life lessons from TV.
A childhood belief about sex
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- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon