“Butch Tops and Femme Bottoms”?: Sexual Rol, Sexual Decisn-Makg, and Ias of Genr among Young Gay Men - PMC

Contents:

• BORN TO BOTTOM? REARCHERS REPORT BLOGIL CORRELATNS ANAL SEX ROLE GAY MEN
• THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.
• PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN
• “BUTCH TOPS AND FEMME BOTTOMS”?: SEXUAL ROL, SEXUAL DECISN-MAKG, AND IAS OF GENR AMONG YOUNG GAY MEN
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY SIGNALG, OM HANKY S TO THAT 'WHAT GAY GUYS ARE ACTUALLY LIKE' VIO
• SUBS LOOKG FOR DOMS (GAY MEN ONLY)

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

Lucky for gay/bi men, there are que a number of who know exactly how that feels.

It seems like every gay guy out there is a bottom, and when you thk you've met someone who's fely a He too is a bottom. While a sgle factor (the elive “gay gene, ” for example) has yet to emerge the ongog scientific vtigatn of what term sexualy, there are a host of theori. ”‘Surf Girls Hawai’i’ is the Real-Life ‘Blue Csh’ We’ve Waed 21 Years ForOffEnglishRegardls of how wi-rangg the studi are, they tend to have one thg mon: they treat gay men as a monolhic group.

VanrLaan) has vtigated variatn wh the populatn of gay men based on their anal-sex rol (that is bottom, or receptive, top, or perative, and versatile, or both receptive and perative pendg on circumstance). 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). Dpe every study I’ve read that asks about the anal-sex role of s rponnts has found that the majory men who have sex wh men intify as versatile (cludg the two studi at hand om the Universy of Toronto team) as well as my own anecdotal experience suggtg as much, the top/bottom bary persists gay culture.

THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL FEME GAY MEN OUT THERE.

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).

PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN

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).

”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. As wh all self-reported studi, this one had s limatns (we n never ignore how sex-based shame may lor some gay men’s rpons regardg their sexual terts and practic, for example).

” Nothg about the fdgs is meant to be all-enpassg; ed, this very post has been wrten by a right-hand gay man wh only younger sisters and who intifi as antly versatile.

“BUTCH TOPS AND FEMME BOTTOMS”?: SEXUAL ROL, SEXUAL DECISN-MAKG, AND IAS OF GENR AMONG YOUNG GAY MEN

Until now, the vast majory of the rearch regardg the velopment anal sex rol gay and bisexual men has foced on social factors. For example, a fascatg paper om January’s Archiv of Sexual Behavr, “Regnn and Constctn of Top, Bottom, and Versatile Orientatns Gay/Bisexual Men, ” Northwtern Universy’s David A. He emailed back this rponse:I specifilly nducted [the “Regnn and Constctn of Top, Bottom, and Versatile Orientatns Gay/Bisexual Men”] study to try to prove that anal perative role was far more nate than ever thought.

However, we found both the chronology of gay and bisexual men’s self-labelg of their perative rol and their attudal measur, evince to suggt that unrstandg and assigng a role veloped over time. Legend would have you believe that once you’ve earned your gay rd, a Harry Potter–like ceremony occurs where, stead of the Sortg Hat, a giant magil butt plug divis all gay men to two ho: tops or is clearly not the se, pecially for those people who nsir themselv versatile (HIYA).

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The two subdivisns have their own l, stereotyp, and -jok, and n sometim seem as if they’re at war wh each other, rather than both workg together for mutual sexual of this n make tryg different thgs dntg, pecially if you’re a baby gay venturg to this world for the first time.

”Miller argu that gay men should exame their relatnship wh power. But I believe that many gay men pick one si, stick to , and that some of those dividuals choose toppg—you’ll have seen their profil markg them as “masc dom tops” on the apps—bee of s ti to tradnal Miller explas, there are outsi forc that, datg back to the ancient Greeks, have prevented gay men om tly diggg to what sexual behavrs we might actually enjoy. “What I mean by that, ” he says, “is that cultural forc wh the gay muny prize toppg over bottomg.

“Wh bottomg there is the perceptn that you're givg up your masculy bee receivg a penis is somethg that women do, ” Miller Chris Whe, an expert health promotn and the director and prcipal vtigator of the Safe and Supportive Schools Project at the Gay-Straight Alliance Network San Francis, tak this one step further. ”To be (fucked) or not to be (fucked) shouldn’t always be the qutnAcrdg to a 2011 study by The Journal of Sexual Medice that surveyed 25, 000 gay men Ameri about their last sexual enunters, only 36 percent said they had bottomed and 34 percent said they had, realy, we’re not actually fuckg all that much. If you are a te power bottom, you are gay man who has a huge appete for beg perated by another guy (or guys).

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This myth n be traced to harmful stereotyp about gay men – pure and simple.