Gay eating
There are certain scenarios that many queer men live in fear of. Getting a haircut from a new, heterosexual barber. Kicking a football back to a group of lads in the park. Sending your dad a communicate meant for your daddy by mistake. Oh, just me then?
When it comes to sex, the potential for awkward situations is even higher. Particularly when, for lack of other options (and holes), anal sex is the default setting for many gay men. From the moment we go out into the planet searching for dick and ass, we’re tasked with becoming experts on all things butt-related. Of course, some lgbtq+ men prefer other sex acts, but while anal might not be everyone’s favoured release, it is undoubtedly a big part of gay male culture.
A dreaded gay sex scenario can arise if mess, otherwise known as shit, appears during the deed. Most “bottoms” (men who are usually penetrated during anal sex) will know the feeling of laying there, praying to the gay gods that when the “top” (the man who’s going to penetrate them) slides his dick in, there’s no poo. It’s not glamorous, but in the earth of buttfucking, an accident like this is almost guaranteed at some point.
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What Is Queer Food?
“You can choose out fags in a diner because they always order BLTs.”
My friend Joe told me this when I was 10 years old. He had only just explained what “fags” were. Now he was telling me what they ate. “Of course fags will eat cheeseburgers, omelettes, pancakes,” said Joe. “But if they have a choice, they’ll always order BLTs.”
I remember feeling alarmed because I loved BLTs. Joe was nearly a year older than me and infinitely more sophisticated in worldly manners. Although I didn’t quite believe that foods could signal sexual choice, I had to agree that the BLT was a dubious invention: not quite a sandwich, not quite a salad, and showing suspicious shifts of register. As if to draw attention to its flamboyant self, the BLT was usually cut on the diagonal and skewered on toothpicks with curly plastic bits of frill. The more I thought about it, the more I believed Joe was right. The BLT was definitely queer.
Did my family know about BLTs? Perhaps they already suspected odd tendencies in my psychosexual makeup. I stopped ordering BLTs. They became an occult pleasure, something I made for myself. I took the BLT with me into the closet.
Baked Alaska
Eating Disorder Symptoms and Proneness in Gay Men, Woman loving woman Women, and Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Adults: Comparative Levels and a Proposed Mediational Model
Introduction
Eating disorders are serious conditions “characterized by a persistent disturbance of eating or eating-related conduct that results in the altered consumption or absorption of food and that significantly impairs physical health or psychosocial functioning” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p. 329). A core diagnostic feature of most eating disorders is that concerns about weight and shape unduly influence a person's self-worth (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Behavioral features of eating disorders can involve extreme dieting, binge eating episodes, and inappropriate compensatory behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, laxative or diuretic misuse, misuse of other medication (e.g., diet pills), fasting, or excessive work out (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). A review of epidemiological studies reported a lifetime prevalence of approximately one percent for anorexia nervosa and two percent for bulimia nervosa among women, and an estimated lifetime preva
Bisexual men more prone to eating disorders than gay or straight men, analyze finds
Bisexual men are more likely to experience eating disorders than either heterosexual or gay men, according to a new report from the University of California San Francisco.
Numerous studies have indicated that gay men are at increased risk for disordered eating — including fasting, excessive apply and preoccupation with weight and body shape. But the findings, published this month in the journal Eating and Weight Disorders, propose that bisexual men are even more susceptible to some unhealthy habits.
In a sampling of over 4,500 LGBTQ adults, a quarter of bisexual men reported having fasted for more than eight hours to modify their weight or appearance, compared to 20 percent of gay men. Eighty percent of bi-curious men reported that they "felt fat," and 77 percent had a formidable desire to deprive weight, compared to 79 percent and 75 percent of gay men, respectively.
Not everyone who diets or feels heavy has an eating disorder, said a co-author of the study, Dr. Jason Nagata, a professor of pediatric medicine at UCSF. "It's a spectrum — from some amount of concern to a tipping show where it grow