I'm done feeding this thread's resident troll. He's utterly blind to himself, he won't read, and he's committed to being ignorantly, bullishly, preachingly wrong.
So, this threadjack being ignored, then, back on topic.
MANDY: congratulations on having a relationship you can trust enough to bring this next level of intimacy to. You can fully expect it to be challenging, and if you stay true to who you are for each other, you'll grow (both together and individually) in ways you can't even predict right now.
Go ahead and be blunt with her, is my advice. I'll bet money that "you'll need somebody straight" was a fishing expedition on her part. She's probably deliberately letting your insinuations slide for now--my experience is that girls don't miss much.