Are Gay Men More F? Oby and Overweight Differenc Among Gay and Straight Men | SprgerLk

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• I DON'T RE IF YOU'RE GAY, STRAIGHT, ENGAGED... WHATEVER. A GUY...
• I DON'T RE IF YOU'RE GAY...
• I DON'T CARE IF YOUR GAY OR STRAIGHT OR BI
• ARE GAY MEN MORE F? OBY AND OVERWEIGHT DIFFERENC AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
• I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE GAY
• I DON’T RE IF YOU’RE BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, BISEXUAL, GAY, LBIAN, SHORT, TALL, FAT, SKNY, RICH OR POOR. IF YOU’RE NICE TO ME, I’LL BE NICE TO YOU. SIMPLE AS THAT.

I DON'T RE IF YOU'RE GAY, STRAIGHT, ENGAGED... WHATEVER. A GUY...

LGBT is still a popular term ed to discs genr and sexual mori, but all GSRM are wele beyond lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people who nsent to participate a safe space.

" Beg gay is an important aspect of a person's life, and the people that re about them should also re about their stggl and triumphs.

I DON'T RE IF YOU'RE GAY...

This seems to suggt that the public acceptance and unrstandg of sexualy and sexual orientatn may have changed, and that gay men, at least certa rol, are now more accepted, and perhaps even celebrated.

Stereotypil gay mal may be portrayed as flamboyant, hypersexual, effemate, fashnable, th, and preoccupied wh body image (Madon, 1997; McLghl & Rodriguez, 2017; Rothmann, 2013), The last two stereotyp have potential relevance for several health out, cludg overweight and many margalized inti, sexual orientatn and sexualy have been narrowly fed based on certa behavrs, characteristics, and expectatns of what means to be a gay man Ameri.

I DON'T CARE IF YOUR GAY OR STRAIGHT OR BI

A hypersexualized view of gay men suggts they are primarily visual creatur, and they sire sexual partners who are well kempt, attractive, and th. In fact, rearch suggts that gay men, more so than straight men, place a greater emphasis on physil attractivens orr to nform to bety ials and to be more sexually attractive (Siever, 1996; Wood, 2004). In this chapter, we enavor to answer the qutn, are gay men ls likely to be characterized by oby or overweight than straight men?

Dpe an expansive lerature the last few s on the quali and characteristics of gay and straight men, rearch that explor the prevalence of oby and overweight the gay male populatn is much more limed, pecially parg them to the straight male populatn. We also exame the likelihood of overweight or oby gay mal pared to heterosexual first discs the ma approach ed the rearch lerature on the nceptualizatn and measurement of what means to be a gay or straight man. We next review the rather limed lerature about the prevalence of oby and overweight the gay male and straight male populatns.

Quantative measur intify gay mal as those who are sexually oriented toward persons of the same sex, straight mal as those who are oriented toward persons of the oppose sex, and mal who are bisexual as those who are oriented towards persons of both sex. Acrdg to the social nstctnist view, sexualy and sexual orientatn exist along a ntuum, wh varyg gre of homosexualy/heterosexualy.

ARE GAY MEN MORE F? OBY AND OVERWEIGHT DIFFERENC AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN

Fally, rearchers g the dimensn of sexual self-intifitn ask how dividuals self-intify, as gay, as straight, or as bisexual?

I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE GAY

If the stereotype of gay mal as more physilly f and more mcular pared to straight mal is accurate, then BMI might be a particularly problematic measure studyg the te risks of oby as relat to sexual orientatn.

I DON’T RE IF YOU’RE BLACK, WHE, STRAIGHT, BISEXUAL, GAY, LBIAN, SHORT, TALL, FAT, SKNY, RICH OR POOR. IF YOU’RE NICE TO ME, I’LL BE NICE TO YOU. SIMPLE AS THAT.

Acrdg to the CDC (2022), BMI is morately rrelated wh both the prevalence of those out and objectively better measur of body posn offered by more direct measur of body fat such as skld thickns measurements, belectril impedance, unrwater weighg, dual energy x-ray absorptmetry (DXA) and the like (see Denton & Karpe, 2016; Goyan, 2012; Scerpella et al., 2013 for more tailed discsns of the alternative methods) Gay Mal More or Ls Likely to Have Overweight and Oby than Straight Mal? The rults showed ls of a risk of overweight and oby among mal who are gay pared to those who are straight (Tuthill et al., 2020).

In a siar study g self-reported data, Periera (2021) found that the stereotypil expectatns of gay men as th and f were fact associated wh lower risks of beg obe and overweight.

For example, Carpenter’s (2003) rearch shows that oby gay mal tends to crease the likelihood of a partnered relatnship pared to the likelihood for straight men, even when ntrollg for the overall lower percentag of partnerships among gay men. At least one analysis suggts that gay mal may actually be at a greater risk of beg unrweight and malnourished to meet this “body fascist ‘no pecs; no sex’ world of metropolan gay masculy” (Richardson, 2015: 646).

(2015) found that mal who are gay are ls likely to engage strenuo physil activy, perhaps for siar reasons as those for straight women, so as to be more appealg to rults of the limed rearch are mixed; some fd that sexual mory stat is associated wh healthier weights (Tuthill et al., 2020). Others suggt that fact, gay men may be at a higher risk for unrweight due to perceived prsur to be th (Periera, 2021; Laska et al., 2015).