What does having an 'open mind' sexually entail for you?

[Kain6th]

Wen someone says they have an open mind when it comes to sexual things, what does that mean? that they will try everything at least once. What do you think?

[Anonymous]

not really. I won't try everything at least once and I consider myself to be open minded, meaning I won't judge people for their personal choices as long as they aren't hurting anyone or endangering the health of anyone else. to me, its political or opinion based, but that's just the way I think.

in my own sexual life, I'm not absolutely open minded to just ANYTHING, but then again I'm hardly absolutely open minded about too much in life, in general. there are generally limits to what I accept in my life. sex is no different. however, closed minded sexually makes me think of some of my friends who won't ever have oral sex and only like missionary position. fetishes aren't really appealing to me, and theyre kind of abnormal in terms of how many people find them appealing, so I don't consider them within the boundaries of the minimum of what it takes to be open minded. they are outside those boundaries and people who are "very, extremely open minded" are open to them. lol its hard to measure something like this though

i think if you're open to trying new things, you're open minded. but that's obviously conditional. what if you do everything. then you can't try new things because there's nothing else left. are you then closed minded? what if you made the tiniest change, like a new position, but for your life and your tastes, that is "trying something new" ? are you now open minded? its a very subjective phrase, I think.

[samhradh_ean]

I don't think it means you will try anything at least once. There are of course different levels of openness that a mind can have, but very few people would be willing to try ANYTHING. There is always a point where logic, past experiences, and known preferences will create a boundary. Would you be willing to try letting someone slice into your skin with an exacto knife at least once? Probably not. Does that make you closed minded? Debatable. After all, there are people who have fetishes for such extreme pain and violence. But if you don't have that fetish, you probably know it without trying. If you have a legitimate reason to believe that you won't enjoy something, I don't think refusing to try it makes you closed minded.

However, if you refuse to try something because you "just don't want to"- with no support or reasoning whatsoever- then perhaps that makes you closed minded. But I don't think it's black and white.

[tohrment]

I think it's about being open to trying new things and testing the barriers in your sexual relationships. But also, being tolerant of other peoples preferences and fetishes and not labeling it as 'weird' or 'disgusting'. It's about understanding that everyone likes different things, and in the very least considering whether you'd be willing to do them if it came up.

[taster]

+1...<3...(:

[ElijahCynicism]

They're inexperienced. 'Cos, after you do enough things, you eventually establish what you do and don't like, so you close your mind, sexually, after it's been open for so long. So, they're only starting, at least, only started being open to kinky things, or doing kinky things.

[Anonymous]

Not dismissing anything with the opposite gender at face value. If you're willing to try most things at least once, then you are pretty open minded. You might be light eh it didn't do it for me I'll try something else next time.

[Anonymous]

It means they will f*ck anyone that's not gelded and probably has one or more hard to pronounce diseases.

[samhradh_ean]

That sounds more like an open crotch than an open mind.

[Anonymous]

It means they won't freak out when you suggest something freaky.