What percentage of gay men are tops
A lot of people think that homosexuality is a easy matter of genetics—if you have the so-called “gay gene,” well, you realize the rest. In other words, gays and lesbians are just “born that way” and that’s that.
While this explanation is intuitively appealing, the reality is that things are far more complex. Increasingly, scientific study suggests there are multiple factors that might contribute to homosexual orientation—and they’re very different from one person to the next. The end result of all this variability is that other “kinds” or “types” of homosexuality probably exist. In other words, being homosexual isn’t just one thing, and not everyone who is gay is lgbtq+ for the matching reasons.
A fascinating recent study supporting this idea was recently published in the journal PLoS ONE. This learn focused specifically on exploring the potential origins of male homosexuality, but did so in a way that was very different from almost all previous studies on this topic. Whereas most research in this area has treated gay men as a homogeneous team, the researchers foremost this study instead looked at subgroups of gay men w
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Ask any gay man, and he’ll tell you that the world is full of bottoms. “Bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom,” my companion Chris said to peels of laughter in reference to everyone at a recent (and very gay) dinner party. They’ll inform you that “New York is a bottom town,” as claimed one subject of a New York Magazine piece from 2003, or that “maybe there are like five tops in the universe,” as the author of a Thought Catalogpost about the perils of bottoming had it. Similaranecdotesabound, which prompts the question: How are gay men getting any D in the B if everyone throws their ankles up in the air as soon as they get within three feet of the nearest mattress? Are there really more bottoms than tops in the world? And just how many bottoms and tops are out there, really?
Statistics, at least, don’t seem to bear these assumptions out. Grindr added the option to list one’s preferred position in their profile for the first hour this September. Since then, 6 percent of daily users have identified themselves as tops and only four percent as bottoms, according to a stand for
Tops, Bottoms, and Versatiles: What Straight Views of Penetrative Preferences Could Mean for Sexuality Claims Under Price Waterhouse
abstract. This Essay reports the results of a survey experiment that we conducted on over eight hundred heterosexual respondents to compare associational attitudes toward gay men who engage in different types of sexual practices. Specifically, we randomly assigned respondents to notice one of three descriptions of a gay character, which differed only with regard to the character’s penetrative preference: top (preferring to penetrate one’s partner), bottom (preferring to be penetrated by one’s partner), and versatile (having an equal preference). Overall, we find that heterosexuals displayed heightened and statistically significant associational aversion toward versatile characters and, to a lesser degree, toward bottom characters, relative to respondents’ willingness to associate with foremost characters. We elaborate why heterosexuals feel to display systematically less associational aversion toward those men whose penetrative taste is most consistent with gender stereotypes. Based on those results, we revisit the notion, adopted by many courts, th
Australian survey finds that less than a third of gay men have pledged relationships with just one partner
A large survey conducted through gay internet dating sites and Facebook in Australia has found that previous surveys may own overestimated the proportion of gay men who are in emotionally committed relationships, and in monogamous ones. Furthermore it found that these categories were not at all the equal thing: a large proportion of men describing themselves as ‘being in a relationship’ also had partners outside the relationship, and a lot of men with only one regular partner did not notice themselves as being in a relationship.
The authors of the ‘Monopoly’ study comment that previous surveys contain failed to capture the complexity of gay men’s relationships. In particular, they have tended to classify partnerships as either ‘primary’ or ‘casual’, but this misses out a huge proportion of men who had regular and sometimes longstanding, but less emotionally-committed relationships. When asked what words they would apply to describe their relationships, those in emotionally-committed relationships used terms like ‘partner’ and ‘boyfriend’, but for those in more purely physical relati
Hello and welcome to our final journey into the annals of data calm by me, from you, regarding your feelings about the sexual terms highest / bottom / switch. We’ve already discussed:
Now we’re going to look at the survey responses as a whole, and how various other identities, practices, lifestyle situations and relationships intersect with the identities I decided to really really demolish over the past few months.
Just a Reminder
One last time with feeling, this is how the numbers shook out:
Tops: 12% // Bottom: 14.3% // Switch: 51.6% // None of the Above; 13.4% // I’m Not Sure: 8.9%
Looking at All The Data
Sex Acts
We’ve broken down popularity of various sex acts by sexual identity in previous posts. Here’s what the entire group is into:
Notably, despite there being slightly more bottoms than tops in our group, y’all choose to give things more than receive them lovely much across the board — unless it involves putting your mouth or finger in somebody’s asshole, at which point you’d rather have somebody perform it to you than do it to somebody! Interesting.
Sexual Frequency
Survey-takers were asked “Within t