Heterosexual and Homosexual Marriag - Are Straight and Gay Marriag Intil?

Contents:

• STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.
• GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?
• GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE
• HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?
• GAY MARRIAGE: SAME, BUT DIFFERENT
• GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG
• ARE GAY MARRIAG HEALTHIER THAN STRAIGHT MARRIAG?
• DIVORCE RAT SIAR AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT COUPL
• WHAT GAY UPL GET ABOUT RELATNSHIPS THAT STRAIGHT UPL OFTEN DON’T

STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.

Approval of same-sex relatnships has been steadily risg sce 2009 (Pew Rearch Center, 2017), and the 2015 Supreme Court cisn endorsg same-sex marriage was a w for many lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) dividuals.

This is nsistent wh prev fdgs: Gay and bisexual men are exposed to mory strsors that n -stabilize relatnships (Meyer, 2003; L, 2012).

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

Rearch fund by the Natnal Instut of Health on the Health of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Populatns.

GAY DIVORCE AND STRAIGHT DIVORCE: THE DIFFERENCE

Prejudice, social strs, and mental health lbian, gay, and bisexual populatns: Conceptual issu and rearch evince.

HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG – ARE STRAIGHT AND GAY MARRIAG INTIL?

And until 2015 – when the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage – that didn't clu data shows that the average age at first marriage for homosexual upl was olr than heterosexual upl. Do gay and lbian upl fare better or worse than heterosexual pairs when to lifelong mment? Acrdg to a report om the Williams Instute at the Universy of California, Los Angel, each year jt over 1 percent of gay and lbian partnerships dissolve, pared wh an annual divorce rate of 2 percent among straight upl.

But bee the data on gay partnerships are spotty, most experts agree 's too early to tell whether they tly last longer than straight upl' marriag. He and his lleagu found that gay and lbian partners brought up relatnship problems more lightly and received such ments ls fensively than straight upl. "Straight upl may have a lot to learn om gay and lbian relatnships" (Journal of Homosexualy, 2003).

GAY MARRIAGE: SAME, BUT DIFFERENT

"Gay and lbian upl, like straight upl, al wh the everyday ups-and-downs of close relatnships, " he says. It's amazg how ltle rearch has foced on this — jt two studi (1983 and 1991, and they provi only a cursory look at parative gay/straight sexual satisfactn). Dire cl long-term upl, but on average, men reta more sire than women, so we would expect men gay upl to feel the most sire, and women lbian upl the least, wh the men mixed-sex upl exprsg more libido than the women.

GAY COUPL CAN TEACH STRAIGHT PEOPLE A THG OR TWO ABOUT ARGUG

But the survey, sexual sire was pretty much the same for all upl, wh gay men and lbians exprsg slightly more sire than heterosexuals. Siary breeds fort, so pared wh those heterosexual upl, we would expect people lbian and gay upl to feel more satisfied wh their sexual munitn.

ARE GAY MARRIAG HEALTHIER THAN STRAIGHT MARRIAG?

The only difference was that women, both lbian and straight, felt somewhat more satisfied wh non-genal rs than men, both gay and straight, prumably bee pared wh women, men tend to be more genal-foced. But bottom le: Contrary to nventnal wisdom, terms of sexual sire, munitn, and satisfactn, people homo- and heterosexual upl are much more siar than different. Men and women 378 gay, lbian, and heterosexual marriag, " acrdg to the study.

Tara Parker-Pope, a wrer at The New York Tim, says gay marriag “tend to be more egalarian, part bee same-sex upl don’t divi work along tradnal genr l” (Gay Marriage: Same, but Different – The New York Tim). LGBT fay law has granted benefs to same-sex upl, but what happens durg a gay divorce? On the one hand, there are reports of higher levels of timacy and happs between gay upl, makg the divorce rate lower between same-sex upl than oppose-sex upl.

Studi show although gay upl are generally “happier” they also have a high separatn rate. The fdgs seem to nclu that the reason for higher breakups gay upl is due to external reasons such as fay prsure, children, fanc, and societal ndng.

DIVORCE RAT SIAR AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT COUPL

Acrdg to a UCLA report, almost 50, 000 of the 64, 000 gay upl the US got married.

The same study found that “first-wave gay marriag have proved more durable than straight on, that’s not expected to last. On the flipsi for gay marriag, data shows that the rate of divorce is 16% while heterosexual upl have a divorce rate of 19%.

WHAT GAY UPL GET ABOUT RELATNSHIPS THAT STRAIGHT UPL OFTEN DON’T

Many studi have been done to try to figure out what is g lbian upl to have a 34% divorce rate, and why gay marriag have a lower rate of divorce, but no answer has yet been found.

The novelty of gay marriage has generated different laws each state, laws which are then terpreted dramatilly differently by state polici and mdsets that differ om borrle to state l.

Jse Green’s amazg piece, “From ‘I Do’ to ‘I’m Done’” trac several histori of gay upl, and not, “for gay upl, the promise of marriage is still so new and plete that the ia of matrimonial urts, equable settlements, and all the rt barely register. How do you procs the undog of a bond that until a moment ago history you were not allowed to form” (The Gay Divorce: From Marriage Equaly to Divorce …).