There's More Than One Way for Gay Men to Have Sex | GQ

Contents:

• 5 THGS STRAIGHT PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT GAY SEX
• THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
• DO GAY UPL HAVE MORE SEX THAN HETEROSEXUAL UPL?
• GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?
• GAY OR STRAIGHT, A MALE IS A MALE IS A MALE
• WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
• PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE THE CROWD ROOM DEFEND BY FANS

5 THGS STRAIGHT PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT GAY SEX

Gay people general are much more well-versed heterosexual sexual practic due to the tnal and cultural bias toward straight people this area. It’s worth notg that I am speakg om the perspective of a gay man, not the entire LGBTQ muny, and I aim to enlighten members of the straight muny on how gay men prepare, engage and enjoy sex between ourselv.

THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX

Our heterosexual iends might assume that gay sex is fairly straightforward when to posns and preferenc the bedroom, but this is not the se.

When to anal sex you may have heard the terms top and bottom: a top is a term ed to scribe a gay man whose preference is to act as the sertive sexual partner, whereas a bottom is a gay man who prefers to act as the receptive partner. I’m sure that for many straight people the first thg that sprgs to md when asked about gay sex is anal, and there is a misnceptn that every gay man tak part and enjoys anal sex.

DO GAY UPL HAVE MORE SEX THAN HETEROSEXUAL UPL?

This might lead straight people to wonr if a gay person who don’t enjoy anal sex n fully enjoy a sexual experience wh other gay people, and the answer is of urse y, they n.

(Picture: Mmuff for)Referrg to sex the homosexual muny as ‘gay sex’ is ed to differentiate sexual activy between heterosexual and gay people. This label n perpetuate the sometim damagg ia that gay sex is a somehow foreign or unual activy, but ’s worth notg that to gay people, gay sex is simply jt sex. Gay people enjoy the same timate pleasur sex has to offer and are turned on by the excement and physily wh our sexual partners the same way straight people are.

It’s what Wtern culture would have you believe, too; ass-play has long been associated wh gayns, and wh good reason. Datg back to the ancient Greece, anal sex played a role the exprsn of same-sex sexualy (albe, wh fewer varieti of lube) art of anal sex is the thg that, both posively and negatively, has e to reprent gay men.

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

In other words: There’s more than one way for gays to ’s not all about basMeghan Traor was wrong; ’s not all about that base. Beg gay n be hard enough by self whout then also worryg about the prsur om wh our own muny to nform to some sort of standard.

Homosexuals nform to the pattern: Gay men typilly have more partners than lbians, and one study San Francis found that nearly 50% of gay men had more than 500 partners. For example, when a “closeted” gay or bisexual man has sex wh another man, he views that sex as reflectg his secret gay/bisexual inty.

A mory of the men I terviewed were homophobic and held prejudice agast LGBTQ2+ people and this prejudice mak the thought of an LGBTQ2+ inty unappealg to them.

GAY OR STRAIGHT, A MALE IS A MALE IS A MALE

Until we are at the end of the relatnship (2-5 years) and the sexual sire has pletely left the answer to your qutn:I do not believe that gay upl have sex more than heterosexual upl. I have lived as both a straight married man and Gay man/ I believe that this issue of amount falls to the dividual and what is right for them. There is some rearch suggtg that on average, gay men relatnships have slightly more sex than the average straight uple (which is about three tim a week for the first two years).

It's amazg how ltle rearch has foced on this — jt two studi (1983 and 1991, and they provi only a cursory look at parative gay/straight sexual satisfactn). Dire cl long-term upl, but on average, men reta more sire than women, so we would expect men gay upl to feel the most sire, and women lbian upl the least, wh the men mixed-sex upl exprsg more libido than the women. But the survey, sexual sire was pretty much the same for all upl, wh gay men and lbians exprsg slightly more sire than heterosexuals.

WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY

Siary breeds fort, so pared wh those heterosexual upl, we would expect people lbian and gay upl to feel more satisfied wh their sexual munitn.

The only difference was that women, both lbian and straight, felt somewhat more satisfied wh non-genal rs than men, both gay and straight, prumably bee pared wh women, men tend to be more genal-foced. But bottom le: Contrary to nventnal wisdom, terms of sexual sire, munitn, and satisfactn, people homo- and heterosexual upl are much more siar than different.

PENIS SIZE AND PREFERRED SEXUAL ROL AMONG GAY MEN

There's a lot between the two extrem of makg love to the man of your life, and havg a rnchy, anonymo hookup a here are 18 typ of sex all gay/bi men should experience (at least once) at some pot their liv! But as I’ll be monstratg, the major (and ltle regnized) siari between them ultimately suggt that a gay’s “sexual psyche” is much more plementary to a heterosexual male’s than ntrastg to . Although I’ll be focg on the siari that profoundly lk gays and straights what sexually turns them on, I’ll start by enumeratg some differenc that do fact separate them.

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

One key assumptn about gays is that they’re somehow ls manly than straight men—that they’re effemate, even “girlish, ” their behavr and preferenc. Although this may be te of some gays, jt how do we expla the p evince that they’re, if anythg, more terted masculy than straight mal are?

As the two thors put : “The vast majory of gay men prefer to masturbate while thkg about wboys, firemen, or David Beckham stead of drag queens, ballet dancers, or Elton John. ” And further: “On the televisn show Glee, the football player Fn and mohawked bad boy Puck are bigger turn-ons for gay men than the effemate gay character Kurt” (p.