Why are so many men gay

Why do some straight men have sex with other men?

According to nationally-representative surveys in the United States, hundreds of thousands of straight-identified men have had sex with other men.

In the new book Still Straight: Sexual Flexibility among White Men in Rural America released today, UBC sociologist Dr. Tony Silva argues that these men – many of whom enjoy hunting, fishing and shooting guns – are not closeted, bisexual or just experimenting.

After interviewing 60 of these men over three years, Dr. Silva found that they relish a range of relationships with other men, from hookups to sexual friendships to secretive loving partnerships, all while strongly naming with straight culture.

We spoke with Dr. Silva about his book.

Why do straight-identified men have sex with other men?

The majority of the men I interviewed reported that they are primarily attracted to women, not men. Most of these men are also married to women and prefer to have sex with women. They explained that although they loved their wives, their marital sex lives were not as active as they wanted. Sex with men allowed them to hold more sex. They don’t consider sex with men cheating and s

Long-suffering Spectator readers earn a seasonal smash from yet another Remoaner diatribe from me. My last on this page, making the outrageous suggestion that the populace may sometimes be wrong, is now being brandished by online Leaver-readers of my Times column as proof that I am in fact a fascist; so there isn’t anywhere much to go from there.

Instead, I spin to sex. There is little period left for me to write about sex as the thoughts of a septuagenarian on this subject (I change 70 this year) may soon convene only a shudder. But I contain a theory which I have the audacity to deliberate important.

What follows is not written here for the first time, and much of it is neither original nor new; but on very few subjects have I ever been more sure I’m right, or more sure that future generations will see so, and wonder that it stared us in the face yet was not accepted. My firm conviction is that in trying to categorise sex, sexuality and — yes — even gender, the late 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries have taken the medical and social sciences down a massive blind alley. No such categories exist. And it has been particularly sad in 2018 to view the ‘tran

The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality

These figures may not be high enough to sustain genetic traits specific to this group, but the evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder points out in a blog send , external that for much of modern history gay people haven't been living openly gay lives. Compelled by society to penetrate marriages and have children, their reproduction rates may have been higher than they are now.

How many gay people acquire children also depends on how you define being "gay". Many of the "straight" men who have sex with fa'afafine in Samoa go on to acquire married and have children.

"The category of same-sex sexuality becomes very diffuse when you take a multicultural perspective," says Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii. "If you go to India, you'll locate that if someone says they are 'gay' or 'homosexual' then that immediately identifies them as Western. But that doesn't signify there's no homosexuality there."

Similarly in the West, there is evidence that many people proceed through a phase of queer activity. In the 1940s, US sex researcher Alfred K

Why Are There Same-sex attracted Men?

While female sexuality appears to be more fluid, analyze suggests that male gayness is an inborn, unalterable, strongly genetically influenced trait. But considering that the trait discourages the type of sex that leads to procreation — that is, sex with women — and would therefore seem to thwart its own chances of being genetically passed on to the next generation, why are there gay men at all?

Put differently, why haven't gay human genes driven themselves extinct?

This longstanding scrutinize is finally organism answered by unused and ongoing investigate. For several years, studies led by Andrea Camperio Ciani at the University of Padova in Italy and others have found that mothers and maternal aunts of same-sex attracted men tend to have significantly more offspring than the maternal relatives of straight men. The results show mighty support for the "balancing selection hypothesis," which is quick becoming the standard theory of the genetic basis of male homosexuality.