Everyone Fantasises About Gay Sex At Least Once – Even Former President Barack Obama
A letter written by former US president Barack Obama has been published by David Garrow in his biography Rising Star: The Making Of Barack Obama. The contents of the letter reveal that Obama used to actively fantasise about making love to men daily.
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The letter was written by a 21-year-old Obama to his then-girlfriend Alex McNear in November 1982. One may see the news that Obama used to imagine having sex with men and jump to the conclusion that the admissions are somewhat salacious.
The former president’s musings about sexuality and the self are thoughtful and introspective.
“My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men,” he wrote. “But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency.”
As time has gone on, we have built the critical lexicon to understand that sexuality is an identity. Obama’s writing acknowledges this, yet he explores his own curiosity about desire.
“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life. You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination,” he writes.
Biographer David Garrow doesn’t believe there’s anything unusual about Obama’s thoughts.
“I’m a historian, not a psychologist, but I think it’s ‘public record’ news that a (vast?) majority of human beings have sexual fantasies,” he says.
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The revelation of this letter has led to predictable responses online. Some are claiming that Obama’s letter confirms that he’s gay. But, as Garrow theorises, fantasies are common. They don’t necessarily imply anything meaningful about a person beyond that they’re human. Reflection is normal and healthy, and if more heterosexuals permitted themselves to be curious then perhaps there would be less prejudice.
