Gay experimentation
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Researchers reported Wednesday that homosexual sexual activity roughly doubled in the U.S. between 1990 and 2014 — or at least people's willingness to report a male lover or lesbian sexual experience — and that acceptance of same-sex relationships has quadrupled. The explore, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, draws on the General Social Survey (GSS), a broad national survey or U.S. adults conducted since 1972. The biggest jump in queer experiences was among white people and Americans in the South and Midwest.
In 1990, the review found, 4.5 percent of men and 3.6 percent of women reported having at least one gay or homosexual woman sexual experience, and by 2014 that had risen to 8.2 percent for men and 8.7 percent for women. The rise was due almost entirely to bisexual action — the slice of people who reported having both male and female sexual partners rose from 3.1 percent of Americans to 7.7 percent, while the percentage of people who only had sex with their own sex was basically smooth. Among millennials (those 18 to 29), 7.5 percent of males reported a gay sexual life in the most recent survey, while 12.2 percent of wo
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Re: Gay experimentation
Unread postby Sam W »
Hi adamthatcher65,
Before we touch on what to perform now, can you tell me a little about what your thought process was when agreeing to experiment with him that first time? Was it something you were genuinely curious about or interested in trying? Did you talk about things prefer boundaries at all before you started? And did he only bring it up once, or did he keep mentioning it until you agreed to attempt it?
I think it's also time to check in with each other about how you're each feeling and what, if anything, you're each expecting from this. That will give you a chance to say what you need to and him a chance to share how he's feeling. Do you perceive comfortable having that kind of conversation with him?
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.
Straight Males and Lgbtq+ Experimentation
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Quite simply, I’m wondering how common it is for self-identifying vertical males to experiment with homosexuality. Sorry if this comes off as asking for TMI, or if it’s in the improper forum (seemed too "what’s your personal experience?) for GD.
Being gay and having gay friends, I notice a lot about 2 kinds of dealings with straight guys. The first is youthful experimentation, before the participants are fully aware or comfortable with their sexual orientation. I personally never had such experiences, I didn’t contain sexual contact with anyone until I was fairly mature and comfortable with my sexuality.
The other contact is the kind of thing you hear about more in erotic fiction or porn, which is the sleeping with the straight guy AFTER they’re both older and put in their sexual orientation. I’ve had friends converse about how they’ve “gotten with” straight guys just because the timing was right, a guy was horny or what acquire you. Again, I comprehend nothing of the sort, and always considered vertical guys to be completely unattainable.
Now, I don’t own too many straight male friends, and those I do have I’ve never asked a