Gays vs. Straights: Any Differenc Sexual Satisfactn? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY OR STRAIGHT, A MALE IS A MALE IS A MALE
• IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?
• GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?
• GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

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

Overall, 9 percent of rponnts intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual or asexual; for Generatn Z, the figure doubl to 18 percent. Rponnts overall intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer, while 16 percent of those Generatn Z reported beg LGBTQ.

Exposure to sexual and genr moriWorldwi, 42 percent of survey rponnts said they have a gay or lbian relative, iend or lleague, while 24 percent said they know someone who is bisexual; 10 percent said they known someone who is transgenr, and 9 percent said they know someone who is nonbary, genr-nonnformg or genr-fluid.

In Brazil, for example, 66 percent report havg a gay or lbian relative, iend or lleague, but Japan and South Korea, the number is only 7 to speakg out on behalf of LGBTQ people, nearly one-third of all rponnts around the world said they had done so. Globally, 13 percent of all rponnts said they had attend such an event, cludg 54 percent of lbian and gay rponnts and 10 percent of heterosexuals. Enb, who was not volved the survey, said the low level of participatn Pri events Rsia is due, part, to the untry's so-lled gay propaganda law.

IS YOUR MAN GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL?

Havg the send-hight growth, followg Argenta, where support grew by 25 Amerin untri monstrated relatively high levels of support for same-sex marriage, wh 82 percent of rponnts Chile and 76 percent Mexi favor of same-sex marriage or some type of legal regnn of gay unns. Visibily and equalyAround the world, a majory support lbians', gays' and bisexuals' beg open about their sexual orientatn (51 percent favor pared to 16 percent opposn). There is strong support for laws banng discrimatn at 55 percent worldwi, but support is more muted on public affectn, wh 37 percent supportg and 27 percent is also global support for openly lbian, gay and bisexual athlet on sports teams.

But as I’ll be monstratg, the major (and ltle regnized) siari between them ultimately suggt that a gay’s “sexual psyche” is much more plementary to a heterosexual male’s than ntrastg to . Although I’ll be focg on the siari that profoundly lk gays and straights what sexually turns them on, I’ll start by enumeratg some differenc that do fact separate them.

GAYS VS. STRAIGHTS: ANY DIFFERENC SEXUAL SATISFACTN?

One key assumptn about gays is that they’re somehow ls manly than straight men—that they’re effemate, even “girlish, ” their behavr and preferenc.

Although this may be te of some gays, jt how do we expla the p evince that they’re, if anythg, more terted masculy than straight mal are? As the two thors put : “The vast majory of gay men prefer to masturbate while thkg about wboys, firemen, or David Beckham stead of drag queens, ballet dancers, or Elton John.

” And further: “On the televisn show Glee, the football player Fn and mohawked bad boy Puck are bigger turn-ons for gay men than the effemate gay character Kurt” (p. Ogas and Gaddam also observe that terms of excg the passn of gay mal, many of them need to know whether the porn mol or actor they’re watchg is gay or straight. And as opposed to porn for straight mal, where the man’s body is rarely highlighted, what we might term “gay heterosexual porn, ” ’s the woman’s body that’s almost cintal.

GAY STEREOTYP: ARE THEY TE?

But returng to gay preferenc, is not cur—not to say, untertuive—that, overall, gays’ aroal would be more strongly activated by heterosexual mal than by fellow gays (where their attractn would much more likely be reciproted)?

And do appear that to be sexually turned on, the gay bra may be stctured to search for masculy cu que as psychologil as physil. Most gays’ preference for takg the submissive role sexual teractns also ns unter to the domance a clear majory of heterosexual men favor.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

But here, too, the dynamic would seem to dite that gays’ bras are “preload” to genr cu that (if anythg) are hyper-mascule, sce they’re generally attracted to mal more mascule than they are. A somewhat illy exaggerated quote that Ogas and Gaddam offer to illtrate this suatn is om a 37-year-old gay man, who laments: “‘Tops have so easy.