Help. You know, this is why I didn't get started again on this discussion. ;) I wasn't talking about any sexual 'identities', because, like you, I think it's a rather stupid concept. When I say gay, straight, bi, I simply mean sexual preference, which doesn't have necessarily anything to do with any sort of identity. I'm straight, because I'm attracted to men and not to women. That's not my identity, that's just a random, fairly irrelevant fact like "I'm blond" and it says about as much about myself. So, when I say that Max is gay, all I'm saying is that he's attracted to men. Nothing more. And the only reason I'm saying this is because I did half a spit-take the first time I read some interpretation of Max actually being heterosexual and just sleeping with men because [insert weird explanation here]. Apart from that I really couldn't care less.

I think Max is lying or at least not saying the truth rather often. Or rather: he has a very warped view of himself. I'm not even sure he's consciously lying. He just has trouble accepting certain things about himself, and his big bravado of "look at me, I'm writing the whole truth, even that I had an incestuous relationship with my sister!" is just a cheap cover for the things he doesn't want to say.

Anyway, I don't want to get again into this whole argument about Max' sexual identity or preference or whatever. How about we all think what we want to think, because this is the kind of discussion where nobody agrees on anything anyway, and it's tiresome. We just keep repeating over and over what we think, and then we all feel very intelligent, and I really get enough of that at uni. ;)