Si Guys: Thkg Beyond Gay Male "Tops" and "Bottoms" | Psychology Today

Contents:

• THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS
• GENR ROL THE RELATNSHIPS OF LBIANS AND GAY MEN
• DIFFERENC DIG RATS BETWEEN GAY MEN WHO PREFER RECEPTIVE VERS SERTIVE SEX ROL DITE A ROLE FOR PRENATAL ANDROGEN
• IT'S TIME TO STOP PIGEONHOLG GAY MEN AS TOPS AND BOTTOMS
• GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT
• SI GUYS: THKG BEYOND GAY MALE "TOPS" AND "BOTTOMS"
• ‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• BORN TO BOTTOM? REARCHERS REPORT BLOGIL CORRELATNS ANAL SEX ROLE GAY MEN
• GAY MEN'S PREFERENC FOR "TOP" VS. "BOTTOM" CAN BE JUDGED BY THEIR FACE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL? A STAR TV WRER SAYS NO

THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX

In ntrast, the data do not support a role for prenatal androgens the velopment of differenc sexual orientatn among men, as nclud by the same two meta-analys4, the associatn wh 2D:4D and genr rol among female sexual orientatn, we hypothized that a subset of gay men who are more genr nonnformg may show a larger, ls male-typil, 2D:4D than more genr nformg gay men.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

For nsistency across measur, sre on the Relled Childhood GNC sle were subtracted by 5 and multiplied by negative 1 for graphil pictn of rults; Th, a higher sre on both the Childhood and Adulthood GNC graphs dit more genr size imageNon-exclive same-sex attractn, GNC and dig ratsThe prcipal analys above asssed ASR differenc GNC and dig rats among gay men, whereas other non-heterosexual men were exclud om the analys as we hypothized that there may be more variabily velopmental procs fluencg sexual orientatn of men who display variatn same and oppose sex attractn and/or behavr. Here, we report analys on the fol measur cludg all non-heterosexual men: self-intified gay men (n = 149), self-intified bisexual men (n = 24), and men who self-intified as “other” (n = 18; self-labels clud: pansexual, asexual, nonbary, genrqueer, queer, heteroflexible, qutng, trans, and var forms of “I don’t label myself”). Altogether, the fdgs support a role for prenatal androgens fluencg ASR preference and genr nformy of gay fdg that 2D:4D rats differ a subset of gay men based on ASR and GNC rrponds well to the lerature on 2D:4D rats sexual orientatn women: self-intified “femme” and “butch” lbians differ their average dig rats such that the more genr nformg group (“femm”) had more female-typil (higher) 2D:4D rats3.

GENR ROL THE RELATNSHIPS OF LBIANS AND GAY MEN

Alternatively (although not mutually exclively), prenatal androgens may mediate a third variable such as sexual orientatn and/or body type which may fluence genr prent fdgs are nsistent wh prev lerature showg that gay men wh an sertive ASR preference display other ditors of high androgen exposure, cludg an earlier pubertal onset, creased height and body hair pared to both heterosexual men and other gay men19.

DIFFERENC DIG RATS BETWEEN GAY MEN WHO PREFER RECEPTIVE VERS SERTIVE SEX ROL DITE A ROLE FOR PRENATAL ANDROGEN

While there is generally high nrdance between preference and behavr, is likely that preference/fantasi rrpond more to ternal factors, whereas behavr is more nstraed by external nsiratns, such as the preferenc of sexual partners, and/or soc-cultural factors associated wh masculy and sex primary analys the prent study evaluated ASR group differenc GNC and dig rats among gay men, whereas other non-heterosexual men were exclud om the analys. Th, while is possible that prenatal androgens ntribute to the sexual orientatn of some non-exclive same-sex oriented men, this prr work together wh the prent study suggts that the velopment of same-sex attractn among bisexual and other non-heterosexual men likely differs and/or may be more variable than gay is important to note the limatns of the prent study that should be taken to nsiratn.

We, as well as other labs, have ed this measure prr publitns, showg nsistent sex differenc and sexual orientatn differenc among ncln, we found that a retrospective approximatn of prenatal androgens, the 2D:4D rat, differs among ASR preference groups, suggtg that gay men who prefer a receptive ASR and who tend to be more genr nonnformg were exposed to a lower level of prenatal androgen than gay men who prefer an sertive ASR, who tend to be more genr nformg. This associatn between masculy and stat endowment has plex implitns for gay men, given the prevailg stereotype that they are more feme pared to heterosexual men (Ke & Dx, 1987; Lippa, 2000; Mchell & Ellis, 2011; Sanchez et al., 2009) Men and the Feme StereotypeSuch a stereotype reflects, to some extent, average differenc genr-typily between gay and heterosexual men. Such a nnectn suggts that the extent to which gay men ternalise societal stigma about beg gay may fluence their treatment of dividuals who posss stigmatised is a nsirable lerature monstratg that gay men discrimate agast more feme gay mal beyond the romantic ntext (Brooks et al., 2017; Ravenhill & Visser, 2019; Sánchez & Vila, 2012; Taywadep, 2002).

Demonstratg that gay men are as likely to discrimate agast feme gay men as heterosexuals would ntribute to the emergg awarens of tramory prejudice as an area of ncern for the gay Current StudyThe aim of this study is to explore whether a relatively feme-prentatn negatively impacts stat attament for gay men g a more elogilly valid methodology that allows meangful parisons of the reactns of gay and heterosexual men. Usg 5-pot Likert sle where a sre of “0” dited “Totally agree” and a sre of “5” dited “Totally disagree”, gay participants were asked to rate how much they endorsed the ems, “I wish I were heterosexual”; “If were possible I’d choose to be straight”; and “I believe is unfair that I am attracted to people of the same sex”. The average of each participant’s three rpons were lculated to create their Internalised Homonegativy Attus (Heterosexual Participants Only)To measure anti-gay attus we ployed an adapted 6-em versn of the Morn Homonegativy Sle (MHS; Morrison & Morrison, 2002), as ed by Morton (2017), to exclively asss ntemporary negative attus toward gay men.

IT'S TIME TO STOP PIGEONHOLG GAY MEN AS TOPS AND BOTTOMS

Usg 5-pot Likert sle, where a sre of “0” dited “Totally agree” and a sre of “5” dited “Totally disagree”, heterosexual participants were asked to rate statements such as, “Gay men have all the rights they need”; and “Gay men seem to foc on the ways which they differ om heterosexuals, and ignore the ways which they are siar”. 195], that we predicted higher ternalised homonegativy levels would be associated wh a lower likelihood of votg for a feme gay exploratory logistic regrsn analysis was unrtaken to exame if morn sexism predicted ls likelihood of choosg a feme gay male (over a mascule gay male) actor, and if this effect was morated by each participant’s sexual orientatn. The fdg that stronger anti-gay negativy predicted preference for the mascule-prentg actor amongst heterosexual men also replit prev studi (Morton, 2017; Pellegri et al., 2020), offerg further evince for the nnectn between feme-prentatn among gay men and the creased risk of stat-penalti om dividuals who harbour anti-gay attus, even unr circumstanc of affirmative actn (i.

(2021a) found that stronger ternalised anti-gay sentiment predicted masculy-bias – le wh the proposn that the more shame one feels about their sexualy, the ls likely they will want to be reprented by a fellow group-member who perpetuat negative the current study, however, a preference for mascule-prentg actors amongst gay participants was not signifintly predicted by levels of ternalised anti-gay sentiment. However, future studi uld vtigate how masculy and attractivens teract ntributg to stat attament for gay male targets, pecially to terme whether attractivens is protective agast stat-penalti for feme-prentg gay sign of the current study did not allow for direct asssments of the unrlyg reasons for a masculy bias to avoid raisg participants’ spicn, but future rearch wh a different sign may benef om tappg such reasons more directly.

The current study’s fdgs further highlight how this ntemporary shift attus toward learship and stat ntu to reprent a tensn for feme-prentg gay men who have been stereotypilly perceived as ‘warm’ but not ‘petent’ pared to mascule-prentg gay men (Clsell & Fiske, 2005) current study is also among the first to show that gay men themselv are plic stat-penalti agast feme-prentg members of their own muny. Gay and heterosexual men prefer mascule-prentg men learship posns over those emed more feme, acrdg to a Universy of Sydney study, suggtg that gay men themselv are “plic” penalisg “feme-prentg members of their own muny” Gerrard, the study’s lead thor, told Guardian Atralia: “In society there is a strong associatn between gayns and femy and many gay men grow up wh an unnsc ia that gayns is bad, so they may nscly or unnscly supprs feme tras.

GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN PREFER MASCULE-PRENTG GAY MEN FOR A HIGH-STAT ROLE: EVINCE FROM AN ELOGILLY VALID EXPERIMENT

He is ncerned that media pictns of gay men are not tly reprentative of the wir gay muny and are creasgly mascule nature, wh gay rol often given to straight men – such as Daniel Craig Netflix’s Glass Onn: A Kniv Out Jamie Hakim is a lecturer culture and media at Kg’s College London and rearch queer timacy digal spac. “Prr to transng, I lived as a queer man and I saw gay men told to ‘tone down’ or that they drsed ‘too gay to be taken serly’ at work, ” she livg as a trans woman, she regnis the penalti placed on women who act assertively the workplace and as a member of a mory wh very ltle visible reprentatn the workplace, “everythg I do is seen as reprentg my trans inty too”. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him.

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Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. The rults of two of their studi suggt there very well uld be blogil subgroups of gay men, which is to say that one’s blogil makp uld possibly (and most likely, directly) fluence whether or not he lik to fuck or get fucked (or both) has been studied, anal-sex role has been viewed as a rult of social factors (more on that a mute).

SI GUYS: THKG BEYOND GAY MALE "TOPS" AND "BOTTOMS"

And wh the assumptns of femy men e sults (“bottom” as a pejorative amongst gay men) and wh those e a specific kd of shame addn to the shame many gay men already experience merely livg a heterosexual perhaps if the variatn among gay men has blogil basis, uld help make one’s sir, not to mentn those of others, ls ght or timidatg, for one thg. “What’s tertg about this work is even among a group of dividuals who are pretty siar terms of their sexual preference—that is, gay men preferrg men—there uld be a diverse set of procs that lead them to exhib that same sexual orientatn oute, ” explaed VanrLaan, an assistant profsor the Universy of Toronto Mississga’s Department of Psychology, and the senr thor on two recent papers: “Handns is a bmarker of variatn anal sex role behavr and Relled Childhood Genr Nonnformy among gay men, ” published on PLOS One, and “Genr Nonnformy and Birth Orr Relatn to Anal Sex Role Among Gay Men, ” published Archiv of Sexual studi built on prev rearch suggtg that gay men are more likely to be genr-nonnformg (“ls terted , say, male-typil [exhibg] ls mascule personaly characteristics, ” said VanrLaan), are more likely to be non-right hand than their straight unterparts, and are more likely to have olr brothers ( what’s known as the aternal birth orr effect, which technilly poss that the more olr brothers a man has om the same mother, the more likely he is to be gay). The Universy of Toronto team ntacted what would bee their sample of men durg the 2015 Toronto Pri ftivi and asked them to fill out onle surveys regardg their sexual posng (both preference and behavr—there was discernible variatn between the two), their relled childhood genr nonnformy (which was assigned a number through a regularly ed 23-em qutnnaire The Relled Childhood Genr Inty/Genr Role Qutnnaire, which asks qutns like “As a child my bt or clost iend was 1-always a boy, to 5-always a girl, ” and “In fantasy or pretend play, I took the role 1-only of boys or men, to 5-only of girls or women), their handns, and their amount of siblgs (the sampl of the two studi were almost intil, wh 91 straight men surveyed both studi, and 242 gay men the handns study vers the 243 men of the birth orr study).

‘GAY GLASS CEILG’: WHY MORE FEME MEN GET PASSED OVER FOR LEARSHIP ROL

”The team’s ultimate fdgs poted to statistilly signifint variatn amongst the gay men, wh bottoms beg more likely wh the sampled populatns to be genr-nonnformg (Table 1) and non-right hand (Table 2), as well as to have a higher proportn of olr brothers (Table 3):Note that the handns study found the strongt lks terms of behavr (i. Although some studi have provid evince that LGBTQ people reject domant genred datg practic (Lamont, 2017), others have found that lbian women prefer partners who have tradnally feme characteristics while gay men prefer partners who are tradnally mascule (Bailey, Kim, Hills, & Lsenmeier, 1997; Miller & Behm-Morawz, 2016). Several studi have vtigated why the men choose to not disclose their same-sex behavr (Beno & Koken, 2012; Malebranche, Arrla, Jenks, Dria, & Patel, 2010; Schrimshaw, Downg, & Cohn, 2018; Schrimshaw, Downg, Cohn, & Siegel, 2014; Schrimshaw, Siegel, Downg, & Parsons, 2013) and why many of them ntue to regard themselv as heterosexual spe their homosexual behavrs (Baldw et al., 2015; Carrillo & Hoffman, 2016; Persson et al., 2017; Reback & Larks, 2010; Ward, 2015).

MSMW—pecially those who do not disclose their same-sex behavrs—are attracted to both sex but often partmentalize the heterosexual and homosexual facets of their sexual liv (Dodge et al., 2012; Reback, Kaplan, & Larks, 2015); as such, they are a key populatn for vtigatg endurg beliefs about sex and genr our knowledge, Dodge, Schnarrs, and lleagu’ study of 75 behavrally bisexual men (of var sexual self-intifitn and disclosure levels) the Midwt is the only recent study that clud a specific foc on how sex and genr stereotyp rm how MSMW perceive men and women as sex partners (Dodge et al., 2013; Schnarrs et al., 2012). ” However, a recent survey wh behavrally bisexual Lato men New York Cy (NYC; Muñoz-Laboy, Garcia, Wilson, Parker, & Severson, 2015) revealed that many of them had steady relatnships wh men, sometim ncurrently wh a relatnship wh women, which rais qutns whether more MSMW than might be assumed actually fe some kd of an timate relatnship wh male current study looked at how tradnal sex and genr stereotyp rmed scriptns of men and women as sexual and timate partners offered by a sample of MSMW (n = 203), all of whom intified as bisexual, heterosexual, or offered other non-gay sexual intifitn, and did not disclose their same-sex activi to their female partners.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

Participants this study were 203 behavrally bisexual men who: 1) were 18 years of age or olr; 2) did not intify as gay; 3) reported anal or oral sex wh a man the prr year; 4) reported vagal, anal, or oral sex the prr year wh a woman wh whom they had been an ongog romantic or sexual relatnship for at least three months; 5) had not disclosed their same-sex behavr to any female sex partner the prr year; and 6) rid the NYC area. As such, the tert feme men that a few of the non-disclosg MSMW our study exprsed was an applitn of tradnal feme stereotyp to homosexual men rather than an appreciatn of genr dichotomy of sex and genr stereotyp fed participants’ sexual relatnships wh power differentials and they perceived dyadic sex to be an act between a mascule/domant person and a feme/submissive one.

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WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

We first hypothized that heterosexuals will show more normative sexual fantasi than gay and lbian participants (Hypothis 1) (Bhugra et al., 2006) and that a change toward androgyno characteristics is expected women (both heterosexual and lbian women) (Diekman and Eagly, 2000; Zaa and Garcia-Retamero, 2011), orr to adhere to feme social expectatns (Hypothis 2). The rults, which are not le wh the existg lerature on sexual fantasi and sexual orientatn, may be a nsequence of the social prsure that gay men may feel to appear more mascule: romantic sexual fantasi n be perceived as a “feme type” of erotic thought (Hunt et al., 2015; Salvati et al., 2019) and may th be rejected by gay men. “I’m gog to war, ” he Ben Blackall/HBO Max“It’s a S, ” about 20-somethgs nontg the AIDS crisis the 1980s, broke new ground for s creator, Rsell T Davi, bee he had never wrten about the epimic there was somethg else that ma this HBO Max seri different om the other gay-themed programs Davi had wrten, om the origal “Queer as Folk” to “A Very English Sndal”: “It’s a S” is the first show he has ma which nearly all the gay parts are played by gay the ever-eager pugilist is stirrg ntroversy by argug terviews that, om now on, only gay actors should be allowed gay rol.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

There is also growg nsens that transgenr rol should be played only by transgenr before the mixed gay-straight stg of “The Inherance, ” an AIDS drama that premiered London 2018 and moved to Broadway the followg year, there hadn’t been very much public bate about the suabily of straight actors gay laid out his new posn a barrage of terviews before the January but of “It’s a S” on Bra’s Channel 4, provokg attacks om the lik of Piers Man — “Equaly means equaly, or don’t, ” he said on “Good Morng Bra” — and Peter Ash, a straight actor who plays a gay role on “Coronatn Street, ” the world’s longt nng soap opera.

“That would not jtify a blanket policy but might be ed an argument for a particular play or film where thenticy is particularly important — and where the orientatn of the relevant actors is public knowledge, ” Kenyon ’s posn is ght and somewhat puzzlg for reasons that have ls to do wh fairns than wh his own past work: He has prevly ed straight actors very succsfully many gay rol.

TOM HOLLAND GO VIRAL FOR PERFORMG TENSE GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

BORN TO BOTTOM? REARCHERS REPORT BLOGIL CORRELATNS ANAL SEX ROLE GAY MEN

GAY MEN'S PREFERENC FOR "TOP" VS. "BOTTOM" CAN BE JUDGED BY THEIR FACE

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

SHOULD STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAY GAY ROL? A STAR TV WRER SAYS NO