What's the Science Behd Straight Women Likg Gay Men?

Contents:

• WHAT'S THE SCIENCE BEHD STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKG GAY MEN?
• I'M A GAY GUY, BUT THERE'S THIS GIRL....
• GAY MEN HAVG SEX WH WOMEN?

WHAT'S THE SCIENCE BEHD STRAIGHT WOMEN LIKG GAY MEN?

"Male gays the female gaze: Women who watch m/m pornography, " by rearcher Lucy Neville, drew rearch om a recent survey om adult film se PornHub.

Women appear at a physlogil level to fd gay male sex jt as arog as heterosexual sex, acrdg to Neville's rearch. The study tailed the book vtigated why exactly women are aroed by watchg male-on-male sex by surveyg 275 self-intified women who watch gay male sample clud straight, bisexual, lbian, queer, asexual, pansexual, and misexual women; 68 percent of participants also watched heterosexual pornography, and 53 percent also watched lbian pornography.

However, 82 percent of participants preferred gay male pornography over other overwhelmg reason the women watched gay male porn was that they felt was more thentic than other genr.

I'M A GAY GUY, BUT THERE'S THIS GIRL....

"The women also said that they felt they shared a more mon gaze wh the target dience as opposed to heterosexual and lbian porn, which is predomantly ma for heterosexual men, and they felt gay men's pot of view was more le wh their personal preferenc and sir. They perceived the rough sex gay porn as more tasteful than behavrs displayed heterosexual and lbian porn, whout feelg "non-nsensual.

"Other participants simply enjoyed the taboo of gay sex and the ia they would never experience what was happeng on their laptops. This article first appeared on The years, iendships between straight women and gay men have been a subject of pop culture fascatn. Books, televisn shows and feature-length films have all highlighted this unique relatnship, noted for s closens and wh society's attus toward gays and lbians changg, 's bee all the more important to build a holistic unrstandg of the relatnships between gay and straight a rearcher social psychology, I've often wonred: Why do straight female-gay male relatnships work so well?

GAY MEN HAVG SEX WH WOMEN?

Why are straight women so drawn to havg gay men as iends? Specifilly, I believe evolutnary psychology and human matg n help expla why relatnships between straight women and gay men tend to flourish.

(After all, straight women and gay men don't mate wh one another. Bee gay men don't mate wh women—or pete wh them for mat—women feel a certa level of fort wh gay men, and the procs of formg a close iendship n occur relatively heterosexual men (who, by fn, are sexually attracted to women), the procs is longer—and potentially more ght—bee men may be grapplg wh their own sexual other words, bee gay men are attracted to their own genr, they're a "safe bet" for women—at least, om a socblogil three years ago, I ially tted this theory a seri of experiments that have served as the foundatn of my rearch program on gay-straight the experiments, straight female participants were shown fict Facebook profil pictg eher a straight woman, straight man or gay man.