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Contents:
- 5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE DEBUNKED
- TOP 5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN
- 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
- 10 MYTHS ABOUT GAY VIRGY
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE DEBUNKED
Gay people have been acced of many stereotyp that are not te. Here are 5 myths about beg homosexual. * gay sex myths *
Gay myths(Image cred: © Dawn Hudson |)Gay people have been acced of beg unf parents, more likely to be pedophil, unable to sta lastg relatnships, and worse. "Not every sexual act has a reproductive functn, " said Ja Mann, a blogist at Geetown relatnships don't lastSame-sex marriage; gay men givg their weddg vows.
"There is nsirable evince that both lbians and gay men want to be strong, mted relatnships [and] are succsful creatg the partnerships, spe difficulti created by social prejudice, stigma, and the lack of legal regnn for same-sex relatnships most parts of the U.
S., " said UCLA psychologist Anne Pepl, -thor of a book chapter on the subject published the 2007 Annual Review of example, John Gottman, a Universy of Washgton emer profsor of psychology, and his lleagu llected data om homosexual upl across 12 years, and found that about 20 percent had broken up over that time. That rate projected over a 40-year perd is slightly lower than the divorce rate for first marriag among heterosexual upl over the same time span, acrdg to the study published 2003 the Journal of Homosexualy.
TOP 5 MYTHS ABOUT GAY MEN
Myths about gay men abound. Many of the myths are based on stereotyp. Here are the top 5 myths about gay men and the tth about them. * gay sex myths *
"The overall implitn of this rearch is that we have to shake off all of the stereotyp of homosexual relatnships and have more rpect for them as mted relatnships, " Gottman fact, the same study found that gay upl tend to be better at rolvg nflicts and enuragg posive pedophil are gay(Image cred: © Normasmond |)An pecially pernic myth is that most adults who sexually abe children are gay. A number of rearchers have looked at this qutn to terme if homosexuals are more likely to be pedophil than heterosexuals, and the data dite that's not the example, a 1989 study led by Kurt Frnd of the Clarke Instute of Psychiatry Canada, scientists showed pictur of children to adult gay and straight mal, and measured sexual aroal.
10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
Gay virgy has s myths, and they are based on heterosexual and societal norms. You don't need to adhere to other people's thoughts on virgy. * gay sex myths *
(Image cred: © Alanpoulson |)Many of those who oppose gay marriage and gay adoptn charge that same-sex parents aren't good for kids, and that a child needs both a father and a mother to grow up to be a healthy adult.
10 MYTHS ABOUT GAY VIRGY
Rearch, however, shows that children of gay parents tend to fare jt example, one recent study looked at nearly 90 teens, half livg wh female same-sex upl and the others wh heterosexual upl, showg that both groups fared siarly school. "Both studi were scribed a lerature review paper published Febary 2010 the Journal of Marriage and gay is a choiceThe mystery DNA spippets are about 300 tim ls likely than other regns of the genome to be lost durg the urse of mammalian evolutn.
20 GAY GREEK GODS
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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 misnceptn has led thoands of gay men to seek gay nversn therapy, aka "reverse gay unselg", or even go so far as engagg heterosexual relatnships orr to ny their homosexual feelgs (read: Is My Hband Gay?
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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