Decisn makg and age differenc among gay male upl - PubMed

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• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• DECISN MAKG AND AGE DIFFERENC AMONG GAY MALE UPL

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

AbstractThe creasg visibily of homosexualy society, bed wh the lbian and gay muny's nsirable buyg power, has triggered marketers and rearchers' tert unrstandg homosexual nsumers' nsumptn patterns. Prr rearch on whether homosexual nsumers behave differently om heterosexual nsumers has yield mixed rults, and rearchers and practners still do not know whether any substantial differenc exist, what the differenc look like, and how they n be explaed.

Fdgs om a morator analysis ntradict nventnal wisdom and lay theori, while partly supportg assumptns that are rooted evolutnary and blogil theori that show nsumptn differenc crease wh age; they crease when parg homosexuals and heterosexuals of the same genr. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. There appear to have been three major historil forms for male homosexual relatnships: the Lat Amerin mol patterned after genr-rol, the Greek mol volvg a mature adult male and an adolcent male, and the morn form between mal of approximately equal ag.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

It monstrat that qutns around age preoccupied sexual science and argu, more specifilly, that nstctns of male homosexualy were driven by anxieti about teractns between children or adolcents and olr men.

DECISN MAKG AND AGE DIFFERENC AMONG GAY MALE UPL

10 It also monstrat that, notwhstandg the emergence of this mol, qutns about the impact of sexual enunters wh olr men on a younger person's sexual velopment ntued to be bated wh sexual science, creatg dialogue between theorisatns of homosexualy and ncurrent studi of childhood sexualy. 11 As such, vtigatns of male homosexualy ntued to revolve around urgent qutns about how and when same‐sex sire emerged and what impact sexual experienc youth had on later sir. 27 As the wrgs suggt, the language of perasty served, at least part, as a loc for the articulatn of anxieti about child and adolcent sexual asslt rather than the exploratn of adult male same‐sex sir that might be read terms of proto‐homosexualy.

Neteenth‐century vtigatns of childhood and adolcent sexualy and the associatn of male same‐sex acts wh the rptn of youth had a profound impact on nstctns of male homosexualy sexual science. As the followg sectn shows, the distctive sexual scientific mol of male homosexualy as an born and unchangg inty emerged direct rponse to ncerns about age‐differentiated difference and the nstctn of male homosexualyTo assuage fears about the vlatn of youth, homophile sexual scientists keen to prent a socially acceptable mol of male same‐sex relatnships rejected affirmative amgs of age‐differentiated relatnships.

They nstcted an fluential alternative mol of homosexualy that was creasgly at odds wh existg Hellenisg acunts of same‐sex erotics that celebrated bonds between olr and younger men. Third, the homosexual was nstcted as a person who was driven by genred sir, rather than the sire for youth: the key characteristics of the homosexual beme his attractn to other men and his lack of sire for women.