Massive LGBTSGL Population Increase
We are in the Knowledge Age/Epoch, what this means is that information is being disseminated. The current estimation is that within the next decade/generation another 2 billion people will make their way into cyberspace/have regular access to the internet.
We often think of the internet as a blog, Amazon, purchasing, videos, etc but it is also something much more incisive—-which is why governments to ban/limit it in places like China. It is a blueprint building tool for identity.
Let’s say you’re sitting in downtown Zxi, China and you get a basic cell phone or tablet—-the whole family has chipped in or you’ve been diligently saving your money and have one all to yourself. In Zxi they have electricity and you’re a student so you can both charge your tablet and are capable of thinking because school is teaching you how to think critically.
You start with the basics of things that interest you—-pop culture, books, movies, etc. But with a little effort, because something or another has happened with your government and you can access different sites, you can pretty much over time, with some ingenuity and links from your friends access the global internet-cyberspace. There are no longer restrictions on what you can and cannot look at.
You start with some forbidden stuff, maybe some porn, some banned books or hard to find movies.
Most of the “banned” stuff in the world is of very limited domains/natures:
Sex
Classified military secrets
Research/Technology
Personal histories/issues
The reason why porn is so big online is because it’s the most easily accessed “taboo” information online.
Zxi, China Hypothetical Example
So you’re sitting in Zxi, drinking a bubble tea, you know, living the life. And you come upon different kinds of folk doing different kinds of things. You watch it. You watch it a lot. Now you’ve always had a feeling about something, inside of yourself. So you watch first breadth of taboo sex then you start honing in on what turns you on. In secret.
Then you hear about clubs, friends, wild people doing things, going places and you tag along and you see the people doing or wanting to do or talking about doing something similar to what you’ve seen online.
You experiment, you participate. You like it.
Then you start digging deeper beyond just graphic porn—-you’re maturing in your identity exploration around sexuality. You start reading articles, blogs, essays, personal accounts, watching Everything Will Be Okay PSAs on YouTube.
You bounce onto Quora and you see and participate by reading all of the questions and answers about sex and sexuality and identity. of course some things don’t apply to you, don’t make sense to what you feel inside but other things do. You compare that to heterosexuality, to your parents, your brother, your sister and it’s not the same…but it is the same as “those” kids, the semi-outcast cool kids. They seem happier, more fun, smarter, hipper, more relaxed. You befriend them because they offer different choices than your sibling's groups and you find yourself going on excursions with your new friends, to Mainland China where the shit is really popping. Suddenly where you felt surrounded in Zxi by others, you now feel surrounded by people who accept you, though you haven’t clearly defined yourself yet, on the Mainland.
Then you get a passport and it’s hot and popcorn from there.
If Quora has 330 million unique viewers/potential individual people a month—-let’s massively break that down to a tenth—-1/10—-33 million are people. With new people signing up every day. Let’s say a tenth of that, 3 million people investigate the sex/taboo questions and get pretty good, useful answers that help them understand themselves better and most importantly provide a road map for experimentation and eventually identity choice and solidification.
The cat is out of the bag.
(They may wear masks today in the Middle East around sexuality…..but they will be the rulers of the land in 50 years and will control the narrative. Patience and death change all social constructs.)
Potentially 3 million people who haven’t had a space in their home life/worlds to ask and define the “difference” they feel inside are now on Quora, getting answers.
Like an infection that knowledge will then be transmitted from Quora-cyberspace to the physical world—-and experimented with. I wrote about Leroy Kissyface, my 3rd-grade classmate who used to come over to my house and we’d roll around on my parents' bed, playing kissyface. All manner of positions and nudity, playing, exploring and having exuberant naked fun. We rejected another boy Haskell who claimed to have skills because he felt prurient. But then by 5th and 6th grade, I was rolling around playing kissyface with Kim, my mother’s best friend's daughter and her BFF Theodorsha (who sadly, looked like her name).
I actually lost my virginity with Kim, who wasn’t a virgin.
Now think about my normal, innocent, sexual explorations between 8 years old and 12 years old. Think about it. Not the part about children kissyfacing but the fact that we were children kissyfacing.
Sans internet.Sans books.Sans data.Sans critical thinking.Sans video examples beyond normal TV and movies.
I had literally explored 2–3 sexualities in a handful of years, had full hetero intercourse, rejected a two male 3 way, had a lover in the 3rd grade, 4th, and 5th grades, and had a 3 way with two girls—-by 12.
And I was a shy, introverted kid!
Sans internet.
50 Years Into the Future-Sexuality
It will be odder NOT too have had some sort of permanent or fluidic LGBTSGL experience. Being exclusively, historically, heterosexual will be considered odd, archaic. Due t population concerns and greater freedoms for women (almost as massively impactful against human-male sexuality and female sexuality as the internet) sex and sexuality will be less mandated by institutions and more individualistically controlled.
Like your phone. Fluidic, non-hetero, sexuality will be as ubiquitous as cell phones.
Now, when you go outside look at how many people have cell phones 150+ million in America alone but the numbers are hard to estimate because people replace them on average every 12 months—-so there are many “good” cell phones simply collecting dust in drawers, store inventories, etc..
Couple the Zxi exampling with cell phones—-look at how many people HAVE cell phones. Now imagine that a tenth of them are on sites, porn, Wikipedia, YouTube, Quora getting information about the “feeling” they have inside.
10%—a massively conservative estimate of the number of people you see. Every day. All over the world. Right now—-China, India, Australia, Ukraine, Russia, Africa, Chile, Canada——all on the internet getting identity confirming/molding information from cyberspace.
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Social communities and governments conferring legitimacy to same-sex relationships—-Ireland just started offering shamrocks and same-sex marriages.
10% of that 2 billion joining into cyberspace in the next decade to 22–35 years (a generation).
Other than potentially educated people, working people and parenting people—-LGBTSGL will be the largest growth segment because it’s not new people—-I never said the age of our Zxi example person, nor their gender.
People realize and understand themselves and change, at all ages.
Now, with information through the Knowledge Age, all over the world.