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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   3501 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 22, 2026

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Why should a woman marry him? What's in it for her, from her point of view?

Presumably financial and familial support outside of sex and romance.

A lot of women won't get the latter in any case.

I imagine it's one thing to be married as a woman to a man you're not sexually attracted to, but it's entirely something else to be married to one who is not, and is incapable of being sexually attracted to you. I'm guessing most women would opt to remain single than to sign up for the latter.

I agree that most women would prefer not to have that, but in the grainy truth of reality, I know women with worse marriages than that, who would do well to trade their current husbands who don't have sex with them for a rich gay husband who doesn't have sex with them.

At any rate, when I ran a straw poll the most common number of marriageable prospects reported by Mottizens was 1 or 2. (Reinforcing that I am some mix of immensely lucky and a slut with low standards) He only needs to find one woman into the idea out of the whole vast universe of people.

Most women? Yes. But as I've speculated down thread, my brother gets enough female attention that there are almost certainly going to be women who would still ask for marriage and hope for kids. Maybe most of them might be a tad optimistic, or less charitably, outright delusional, but there's a reason psychiatrists stay in gainful employment. (I am not nearly as handsome and live in a different country with no solid plans for return, but all else being the same, my parents still regularly have to field marriage proposals on my behalf.)

And that is restricting myself to heterosexual women, God knows that if he did express a willingness to have a lavender marriage, there would be plenty of market demand. I don't think that's a bad option, at least if every party is on board and fully informed.

He's a handsome man with a decent amount of money, and also about to become a doctor. I don't know how many women would still pursue him if he came out as gay, but I suspect the number is non-zero. Straight men do chase lesbians too, and even more gay men have a thing for trying to "convert" straight men. It's even a meme that there are bi/gay men pretending to be straight on Grindr to attract attention.

Straight men do chase lesbians too, and even more gay men have a thing for trying to "convert" straight men.

For/Into marriage? With children? Because this is what OP was describing.

I have some very bad or very good news for you about the entire kink of orientation play.

Yes. It can and does happen.

Out of curiosity, I asked Claude, and here's a link to it's reply.

https://rentry.co/iwp599d4

ChatGPT:

https://chatgpt.com/share/69c167d0-f6b0-800b-a861-551b7be7be49

TLDR: there's a lot of denial about homosexuality, and a wealthy handsome doctor from a good family is a catch so appealing that plenty of women will ignore the fact that he's gay (even if they might end up regretting that decision later). Claude is more confident than I am, but I think both of us are directionally correct.

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