I’m not entirely sure how women feel about all this, but they seem every bit as sexual as men in many of the same ways-it’s probably just that they’re less prone to admit it. The human body is innately sexy and it seems that a majority of guys feel that they vicariously score whenever a fellow dude scores in the sack too. I’m not blind.” And it seems straight-identified men, when they allow themselves to admit it, find men physically attractive too. Whenever I comment on women being hot, straight guy friends will ask me, “Wait… you still find women attractive?” And I respond, “Yeah, I’m gay. …A man can be as straight as an arrow, in terms of consistency of using the term “straight” to identify himself, and still enjoy watching another man sexually. This doesn’t mean that the straight-identified men watching male-female porn are “secretly” bi… straight-identified men… want to identify with -and imagine themselves attracting such beautiful women-or… erotically enjoy looking at him-the way they enjoy looking at the women he’s with. Others just call their same-sex sexual encounters “buddy baiting” or “buddy sex.Male porn performers look the way they do because porn is usually made with a male audience in mind… if straight men truly didn’t want to be distracted by seeing a man in a film (either because they don’t find men attractive, or because, uh-oh, they do, and can’t handle their own attraction to guys!), straight men wouldn’t watch any porn with men in it… Straight guys who want to have gay sex without social stigma sometimes self-identify as “mostly straight” (rather than “bisexual,” which some consider “too gay”). RELATED | What’s the World Coming to When Straight Men Are Sending Each Other Dick Pics? “It’s me saying it’s OK for you to be engaged in these types of scenarios around women and men, and not feel your sexuality has to be threatened.” “It’s not only about getting off and jerking off to porn, but also me showcasing a version of sexuality that is heterosexual, but also very heteroflexible,” Lyon wrote. Basically, as gay people have been more accepted by American society, more straight men have made gay male friends and learned that they can express physical affection with men without it threatening thier sexual identity. In her controversial 2015 book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, author Jane Ward said that many straight-identified men watch gay porn and have sex with men while still identifying as straight for several reasons. Gay porn stars from the Blatino Erotica Awards, image by Joe Hawkins But why are straight men watching gay porn?
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When you consider how much straight porn focuses on men’s penises and how much more easily accessible it is than gay porn, you’ll understand why so many gay men watch it. A 2016 study of 821 gay, straight, and bisexual men revealed that 21% of straight guys watch gay porn (and 55% of gay men watch straight porn).Īt the time, we assumed that straight men like watching gay porn because, like straight porn, its focus is largely on male-arousal.
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Granted, this isn’t the first study of straight men who watch gay porn. This particular straight men gay porn statistic reveals something we already knew: Sexual fluidity and bisexuality surround us more than we think, regardless of how these men self-identify. It also found that 24% of its hetero male viewers admitted to having sex with another man. The porn tube site YouPorn recently surveyed its heterosexual-identifying users about their porn viewing habits and found that 23% of its male-identified heterosexual users view gay porn.