Eroticism vs. Emotion

Lately I've come across somthing which has made me quite curious, for those of you who are gay/lesbian (not bisexuals), do you have any strong emotional feeling twoards certain members of the opposite sex, yet not the same strong erotic feeling which you have twoards certain members of your own sex?

I've just been curious about this, because I feel that I could never have sex with a man, yet I do find myself sometimes having little crushes on guys. Though I do know I could never go any further than kissing a man, whereas with a woman I'd be willing to go all out and have sex.
Basically, I have emotional feeling for both sexes, yet feelings of eroticism exclusively twoards women.

So my question is, do you think you could have a purely emotional relationship with a member of the opposite sex?

I don't know... I've always hesitated to call myself a full-out lesbian for this reason, and I've been curious about it and wanted to hear some other peoples takes on the situation.

 

Well, I´m gay and I have emotional relationships with both sexes: with girls just friendship and with boys friendship and love.

 

Hello Dreamerspirit!

Well you are just 16 year old, so I think you wouldn't need worrying about it. I am 22 you could think that guy is young but i have lived enough for saying this. the sexuality is in the head, and depend on how you were living and how things afect to your live style. If you live just with guys or just girls, you classmates, your family and so on.
We always want to be part of any group, and being gay you also do it, and our brain is trying to do, and look for what your culture(parents, school, tv, friends etc.) taught to it. Don't worry about being in guys or girls group, let things flow! you will discover it soon. I guess you know that there are extreme nice GUYS n' GIRLS, you are always gonna notice, and it doesn't mean that you are lesbian, bi or straight
You could feel attracting by their look, but i doesn't say anything about your sexuality

 

Yes, it's possible for gay people to have strong emotional and nonsexual feelings for people of the other sex. I'm an example of this.

In my case, I wouldn't call them crushes, just very good friendships.