Well said, verse here. Some masculine tops are submissive. And some feminine bottoms are dominating…. I have had two experiences where I have played the insertive role, while only receiving oral sex, not giving it.
Top scientists get to the bottom of gay male sex role preferences
I explained to my partner in both occasions the reason for doing so considering myself straight, but curious. They were both fine with it. I am not sure if they were the bottom in their relationships with other gay men. Although, they were both rather feminine…. Thank you so very very very much. Was beginning to think that maybe I.
In defense of the authors, they do address this in the main text of the paper. Relevant passage: Thank you very much for sharing this information. I initially thought to correct your offensive and narrow-minded comment…but then I figured it would be a waste of time. Your ignorance is overwhelming. To say nothing of your deplorable grammar skills. You deigned to respond because it is a value we all humans deserve. As familiar and boring as it usually is to read comments like this on the Internet, this one really gets the prize for blatant non sequitur.
Wait a sec?! Comical …. Is this real all that important?
Top, bottom and versatile - Wikipedia
What about those who are versatile? It seems to be that there is too much fixation on what someone does with thier genitals.
I mean there are those who are agressive and submissive in romantic encounters. What are your preferences for form and function? In that way, gay men are way more picky than woman in life matters and sexual play, but also good at prioritizing their choices.
It is actually a horrible shame that gay males cannot make genetically other male babies with each other in their lifetimes in this era. Whereas most FemiNASTY women are anti-male and seek to sex up the bad boys while financially raping productive Beta Males and in the long run, degrade the value and strength of their local male gene lines. There are some statistical errors with the paper e. That aside, the paper tries to tease out our actual ability to distinguish from our natural bias to classify men as tops that is, even knowing that half of the faces are tops and half are bottoms, people are categorizing more than half as tops and less than half as bottoms.
One more gripe. Some people are versatile. Some people just are not versatile, and no amount of shaming or head-scratching will change them.
Nor should they have to change. Thanks for the read, SS team. LOVE this article!! But then, this is an area of research science i am very familiar with. For those who actually care about science along with the studies on the Golden Ratio and how it affects our perceptive judgment as early as a new born, my suggestion is to study the chemical biology behind Sociology and Psychology before irrationally commenting.
Such a disappointment. Is this really why you are willing to suffer the discrimination we all face, just so you end up as the clownish version of a straight pairing? What makes this study so unscientific is how they had little to no control over questions of grooming which can alter the perceived masculinity of a face drastically, from haircut, facial hair, plucked eyebrows, etc.
Thank you so very much for your response. When I finally tried it and loved it, I stupidly decided that I was a bottom. Unfortunately I fell into the trap of thinking that this was somehow my destiny. I realize now that, just as you suggest, this narrowminded view of my own self was the product of a more restrictive time and place that stopped me from realizing all of my possibilities.
A side note: Although this receptive tendency is supposed to stretch across all aspects of both our sexual and our nonsexual lives, I never particularly liked giving head. But I also never had trouble finding tops who enjoyed going down on me. Now I am 51 and live in Latin America. For the first time I find myself attracting and being attracted to younger men who want me to be the top or active activo , at least part of the time.
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Screw what the studies say and screw what I thought about myself for so many years. I am going to have really great sex in my new position. And finally be All that I can be. Sorry I am a bottom or preferably so when indulging in same sex so explain that. Covered in Tattoos, shaved head, work out, work on cars and Construction by trade….. I gotta say I think stereotypes are for the birds. Hi Robert — I just read your comment on the original post and it was a real breath of fresh air. Gay stereotypes exist for a reason. Most feminine gay guys have gender identity disorder but were shamed from wearing womens clothes or doing feminine things as a kid.
Without the shame the rest of them will end up Male to Female trans. The rest of the gays had some sort of sexual abuse in early childhood.
Todd K Autman. I think Id be considered a power bottom. Doc Hogan. Not exactly, anyway. The ubiquity of homosexual behavior alone makes it fascinating. Several years ago, a team of scientists led by Trevor Hart at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta studied a group of of gay male participants. That is to say, based on self-reports of their recent sexual histories, those who identify as tops are indeed more likely to act as the insertive partner, bottoms are more likely be the receptive partner, and versatiles occupy an intermediate status in sex behavior.
For example, tops also tend to be the more frequent insertive partner during oral intercourse. In a issue of Sexual and Relationship Therapy , these scientists reported that tops were more likely to be the insertive partner in everything from sex-toy play to verbal abuse to urination play.
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They also manifested higher internalized homophobia —essentially the degree of self-loathing linked to their homosexual desires. Hart and his coauthors speculate that this may be due to their greater sexual sensation seeking, lower erotophobia fear of sex , and greater comfort with a variety of roles and activities.
Yet the authors make an excellent—potentially lifesaving—point: Although self-labels were not associated with unprotected intercourse, tops, who engaged in a greater proportion of insertive anal sex than other groups, were also less likely to identify as gay. Tops may be less likely to be recruited in venues frequented by gay men, and their greater internalized homophobia may result in greater denial of ever engaging in sex with other men. Tops also may be more likely to transmit HIV to women because of their greater likelihood of being behaviorally bisexual.
For example, in the article by Moskowitz, Reiger and Roloff, the authors note that prospective gay male couples might want to weigh this issue of sex role preferences seriously before committing to anything longterm. From a sexual point of view, there are obvious logistical problems of two tops or two bottoms being in a monogamous relationship. Another intriguing study was reported in a issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior by anthropologist Mathew McIntyre. Somewhat curiously, McIntyre discovered a small but statistically significant negative correlation between 2D: