Back in the good old days when "middle school" was properly called "junior high" we first got the experience of picking electives...sort of...
All the 7th grade that weren't in band took one unit of music, one of art, and one of either wood shop or home economics. Back then, most girls took home ec and most boys took wood shop (I realize that today most schools now make all students take all four)...
As a joke, I told several of my friends that I was going to sign up for home ec...I made up a b.s. story about "my cousin up in Maryland" who took home ec and was the only guy in the class, and that because the girls admired his "modern, sensitive" outlook, he got more tail than you could shake a stick at...
Sure enough, these guys told others (despite me "making them promise not to tell anyone about my plan") and that spring, 26 young men found themselves in the first (and likely only) all-male home ec class in the history of our school. I took wood shop like any heterosexual young man would...and told several girls that these guys were all queers and got myself some unexpected cheerleader tail for good measure.