Arkano is a Spanish rapper and contestant on the reality show MasterChef Celebrity 6. He’s also on Tinder. And when it comes to sex, he’s very open-minded.
All of this was revealed on this week’s episode of the popular cooking competition, when the 27-year-old opened up about his sexuality while talking to fellow contestant Eduardo Navarrete.
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When Navarrete asked about a photo of a rainbow flag Arkano recently shared with his 1 million Instagram followers, the rapper replied that he’s “open to everything.” Except on his dating profile, where he sticks to ladies only. At least, for now.
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“Only girls on Tinder,” he said, causally. “Other than that, I have done everything. I am open to everything.”
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Later in the episode, Arkano said that he’s “very excited to get married, look at the other person, and say, ‘I love you. It was you.’ Who doesn’t want that?”
“Sí, pero en Tinder tengo puesto sólo chicas. A pesar de eso, he hecho de todo. Estoy abierto a todo” https://t.co/5KB3O2pkZ4 #MCCelebrity pic.twitter.com/HgxsxVlNAk
— MasterChef (@MasterChef_es) September 20, 2021
Scroll down for some pics from Arkano’s Instagram page…
Donston
More guys do need to be real about fluidity, experimentation, paraphiliacs, contradictions, their internal and external struggles. This is still a hetero-normal world and it’s still filled with a lot of male homophobia, trans-phobia, hetero pressure and toxic masculinity. On the other hand, saying that you’re “open-minded” doesn’t give much insight into your dimensions or where you are in the gender, sexual, romantic, comfort, affection, emotional investment, commitment spectrum.
It’ll be nice to get to a place where all dudes can be more honest and free and don’t have these social and ego constraints. But we also need to be careful with hyping up the “coming out” of guys who make it clear that they have overall hetero preferences, investment and commitment ambitions. When we overly hype those types of dudes it often leads to promoting hetero/hetero-leaning/non-homo worship and superiority and privilege, leads to promoting of internalized phobias, leads to baiting, manipulation, leeching, using “queerness” for validation and attention. It’s a balance. But in general, we need to stop sensationalizing “coming out”. Why can’t we just say folks are being themselves or revealing aspects of themselves? That sensationalizing (which this site and Graham in particular does a lot) is partly why so many guys have a difficult time keeping it real.
Raphael
Sure… It’s the new “trend”, I’m guessing. Recently, every major female artist have “came out” as bi, but you don’t actually ever see them with any other female IRL, neither do they refer to other female partners in their songs or videos… I guess it has come the time for the guys to join the trend.
Donston
It’s really not all that new. Plenty of entertainers (especially actors) have publicly talked about being “open-minded”, experimenting, experiencing fluidity, not exactly being hetero for decades. It’s just more widely accepted/expected nowadays. And it gets more widespread press because of the internet/social media.
We do need to accept that being in the “queer” spectrum common as hell, especially in the entertainment industry. But there’s a reason why you have some guys flippantly talking about how “open-minded” they are and how much they “experiment” seemingly mostly for attention. While, on the other hand, we still have plenty of guys who get very emotional/nervous/defensive when presenting their dimensions, who see being “out” as a cathartic, life changing experience. Simply not being hetero or being someone who is willing to sexually engage with practically anyone will always be different from homosexuality, truly falling in love with someone of your sex and having a legit commitment with them, having/wanting non hetero commitments, being homo-leaning when it comes to the sexual, romantic, affection, emotion, commitment spectrum. They will always be different things. And that’s something we need to make sure we acknowledge while also allowing each other to be ourselves.
deann
“I am open to everything……but I only date girls”. Lol!