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Originally Posted by Bluey48
Yes - I agree with you. By definition, it does indicate that.
But it is not considered to be ethical to experiment with someone's feelings and with their body in order to work out what your sexual orientation is. This is why it is not seen as acceptable on those dating sites.
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I thought that people experiment with their own feelings and their own body, though.
ex·per·i·ment
/ikˈsperəmənt/
Noun
A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery,
test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
Verb
Perform a scientific procedure, esp. in a laboratory, to determine something.
The key part is in bold. My understanding, which is entirely theoretical because I am very far to the extreme of being straight, is that an experimenting person has a
null hypothesis that she may have at least some lesbian leanings. In order to test the hypothesis, she engages in something that produces an experience and checks HER feelings in response to that experience, and based on HER response, decides whether to reject the null hypothesis. She is not experimenting with anybody else's feelings.