Straight Women and Their Gay Hbands | Psychology Today

Contents:

• OPEN POST: WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE ATTRACTED TO GAY OR BI MEN
• WHAT'S THE SCIENCE BEHD STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKG GAY MEN?
• WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE ATTRACTED TO GAY MEN
• STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

OPEN POST: WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE ATTRACTED TO GAY OR BI MEN

Acrdg to the CDC, one 2 gay black men the south is fected wh the vis that AIDS (acquired immune ficiency syndrome). Black men (and women) have overtaken whe gay mal as the populatn most at risk for ntractg HIV fectns. There is an crease the numbers of straight women who are knowgly datg gay or bisexual men.

The numbers are soberg: black women are send only to gay men as the tegory wh the hight HIV ntractns. Why are so many black women and women of lor datg or marryg bisexual and gay men?

Acrdg to Psychology Today, most women who fall for gay men are secure and seekg a relatnship where they are emotnally attracted to the man rather than sexually attracted to him.

WHAT'S THE SCIENCE BEHD STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKG GAY MEN?

I hope this helps expla why celebri such as Blac Chyna, Tamar Braxton, Toni Braxton, Kim Kardashian, and others are emotnally attracted to bi and gay men. An earlier versn of this post was eded to rrect the followg: “One 2 gay black men the south is fected wh the vis that AIDS.

WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE ATTRACTED TO GAY MEN

This article first appeared on The years, iendships between straight women and gay men have been a subject of pop culture fascatn. Books, televisn shows and feature-length films have all highlighted this unique relatnship, noted for s closens and wh society's attus toward gays and lbians changg, 's bee all the more important to build a holistic unrstandg of the relatnships between gay and straight a rearcher social psychology, I've often wonred: Why do straight female-gay male relatnships work so well? Why are straight women so drawn to havg gay men as iends?

STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS

Specifilly, I believe evolutnary psychology and human matg n help expla why relatnships between straight women and gay men tend to flourish. (After all, straight women and gay men don't mate wh one another. Bee gay men don't mate wh women—or pete wh them for mat—women feel a certa level of fort wh gay men, and the procs of formg a close iendship n occur relatively heterosexual men (who, by fn, are sexually attracted to women), the procs is longer—and potentially more ght—bee men may be grapplg wh their own sexual other words, bee gay men are attracted to their own genr, they're a "safe bet" for women—at least, om a socblogil three years ago, I ially tted this theory a seri of experiments that have served as the foundatn of my rearch program on gay-straight the experiments, straight female participants were shown fict Facebook profil pictg eher a straight woman, straight man or gay man.