[freya]

Question: When you say "gender" do you really mean "gender" (as in man/woman and/or masculine/feminine) or do you mean "sex" (as in male/female)?

For me personally, I am attracted by a certain type of gender expression -- fairly masculine. When I was younger, the sex of the person (i.e. whether he/she was male or female) did not seem to be a very important factor. But as I've gotten older, I seem to be more and more exclusively attracted to butch females.

I have never been attracted (other than as far as friendship goes) to feminely presenting people of either sex.

And, for me, romantic interest defintely is connected to sexual attraction. I mean, I might not be romatically interested in everyone to whom I find myself attracted sexually, but I most certainly have never found myself romantically interested in someone to whom I was not sexually attracted.

freya