Gay or Straight, A Male Is a Male Is a Male | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY OR STRAIGHT, A MALE IS A MALE IS A MALE
• WHY SOME STRAIGHT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE GAY SEX
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSIL BODY TRAS AND MASCULY ON ANAL SEX ROL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

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

Gallup’s team tried to look at the effects of semen on gay men who were havg unprotected anal sex but uld not ntue, bee almost all of the study participants were gtg semen durg oral sex, which uld have nfound the rults. “There’s some evince that gay mal followg anal terurse will go out of their way to try to reta the semen for extend perds of time, which suggts psychotropic effects, ” Gallup says.

The thors go on to offer addnal blogil and anthropologil explanatns as to why erect penis—particularly large on—would so beguile a great number of heterosexual men (not to mentn gays and bisexuals). A Gui for Women Concerned About Their Men, but simply put, some men have no sire to be nnected wh gay culture, and scerely nsir themselv to not be gay or bisexual. This would be like sayg that gay men who don’t like anal sex are really straight but don’t know yet, and their butt will have to tell them at some pot.

Although neher of our fantasi was fulfilled by the enunter, we end up havg an tertg nversatn about homosexualy, a topic the fellow was studyg graduate school, wh an obv personal vtment, and the topic of a paper I’d wrten my unrgraduate psychology class. At the time, the psychologil acunts of homosexualy’s foced on the relatnships between homosexual men and their parents, pecially their mothers.

WHY SOME STRAIGHT PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE GAY SEX

For one thg, homosexualy shows a reasonably high herabily—if you are homosexual, and you have a tw brother, there is a very good chance he is homosexual as well.

The first odd thg about homosexualy is the fact that has such high herabily—how n a proclivy toward havg non-reproductive sex be passed on geilly?

Another odd thg about homosexualy is the shape of homosexual men’s preferenc: Although gay men share women’s attractn to humans wh penis, that’s about as far as the siary go. But studi by Michael Bailey, my own lleagu, and other rearchers repeatedly fd that homosexual men are most attracted to men their late teens and early twenti, and they don’t re much about stat, stead prrizg physil attractivens.

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

All this suggts that the old “social learng” theori don’t apply well to homosexual preferenc—if so, gay guys would learn om media and the social environment what mak for an attractive man, and go after the same featur that women fd attractive. Homosexual men are famoly promiscuo, a fact that beme well-known wh the onset of AIDS, when studi of gay men who were HIV-posive revealed average numbers of partners the hundreds (and even though gay men who were HIV negative had much lower numbers, the average for them was still dramatilly higher than the average numbers for heterosexual men).

THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSIL BODY TRAS AND MASCULY ON ANAL SEX ROL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

6% of the women were exclively homosexual, a much larger percentage—13% of men and 11% of women—had at least some sexual experience wh, or attractn toward, the same sex. But studi morn urban ntexts do not support this k-support hypothis, perhaps bee homosexuals morn societi tend to move away om fay members. Camper-Ciani and other rearchers have gathered some evince that relativ of homosexuals have more sexual partners, and more offsprg, than relativ of a parable sample of heterosexuals.

Two of the puzzlg featur of homosexualy make some sense if you nsir that sexualy is not simply a “one swch” mechanism, but a pose of a number of separate mental modul. Homosexual men are cled toward promiscuy, attracted to youth and good looks, and unrg about stat—hence many of the sexual swch homosexual men are set the same posn as they are heterosexual men—if gay guys were straight, their preferenc would lead them to pick fertile femal. To plite matters further, rearchers like Lisa Diamond have reviewed a reasonable amount of evince that different explanatns will likely apply to male and female homosexuals, and bisexuals.