Why Straight Women Are Attracted to Gay Men | Psychology Today New Zealand

Contents:

• WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE ATTRACTED TO GAY MEN
• IS FLIRTG BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN OKAY?
• JANA HOCKG ON WHY STRAIGHT MEN ENJOY FLIRTG WH GAY MEN

WHY STRAIGHT WOMEN ARE ATTRACTED TO GAY MEN

As a gay woman, when is okay to pursue a straight woman? I am a gay female my late 20s who has unrstood my own sexualy for as long as I n remember and has been out to all of my iends for many years.

Gay rights have evolved nsirably the Wtern world the past . I thk this has been a large ntributor to beg a mastream ia to view a relatnship – gay or straight – as jt that, a relatnship.

My qutn is this: when is okay, or is every okay for a gay woman to pursue a woman who is straight? For those gay women now wh (or were wh) ‘straight’ women, how did you know when was time to make a move, assumg you were the one who did make the move?

IS FLIRTG BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN OKAY?

Biphobia and bi-erasure society sends the msage that male prentg bisexual people are actually gay while female prentg bisexuals are thought to be straight and experimentg. If virtual datg isn't your thg, head to a gay, lbian or queer bar. ” She theorised that this happened bee bisexuals “mt negotiate many unscripted social circumstanc” given “the ambiguo social lotn of bisexualy” that plac as 'not gay enough', but not straight eher.

In many ways, gay men and straight women are a perfect pairg.

JANA HOCKG ON WHY STRAIGHT MEN ENJOY FLIRTG WH GAY MEN

For the most part, relatnships between gay men and straight women are healthy and posive, wh one exceptn I'll get to later. In the vast majory of s, relatnships between gay men and straight women are platonic. Sure, an ocsnal teenage girl falls for a boy who's gay, but don't take most girls very long to figure out that, this se, where there's smoke, there's most fely not fire.

In general, the attractn women feel for gay men tends to be emotnal nature, clearg the way for a highly satisfyg relatnship that outlasts most other relatnships gay men and straight women have.

To beg, I'll addrs how and why straight women are emotnally attracted to gay men—an attractn, by the way, that is returned by gay men spas. Reasons women may be attracted to gay men. First, bee most straight women don’t feel sexual toward gay men, the relatnship don’t rry the threat of sexual tensn.