Something I have been fully aware of for about five years. Although this is definitely not just happening in New York, it was most likely there where the term, "Metrosexual," was coined, so men who are having sex with men but don't want to self identify as gay could label themselves differently. HEEEEELLOOOOOOOOO, AMERICA!!! This big bisexuality thing isn't just among young women in the US! It's rampant among young men, as well, but they still label themselves as straight -- even though they're hooking up with their buds on Friday and Saturday night. Thus, the terminology, "the sanctity of marriage," and the right wingnuts feeling threatened by bisexuality & homosexuality becoming an accepted "lifestyle" in America. All of those conservative Christians who claim that they know it's a "choice" can honestly state their claim because they, themselves, made the choice to live a heterosexual life despite their knowing themselves to be bisexual or homosexual.
Pull your heads our of your collective arse, folks, the right wingnuts aren't just throwing darts in the dark here... They know what drunken men have been doing with each other for centuries in the dark of night out of view of their wives and girlfriends...
Thus, the joke, "Q: What's the difference between a gay man and a straight man in {insert your favorite location here / e.g., Texas}? A: A six pack." And thus the below article demonstrating the fact that more men ARE having sex with other men but still self identify as straight.
I mean, come on! The straights have been writing the rules for thousands of years, and look at the state of the world today. Men marrying men and women marrying women IS a threat to society as we know it, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Is it?
Case in point... You don't hear about a group of gay men murdering an entire family, so they can rape the 14 year old daughter, shoot her in the head, and then set her, the family, and the house on fire to eliminate the evidence. And we don't hear much about lesbian serial killers over the centuries raping, binding, torturing, and killing women who whore themselves on the streets. Nor do you see a majority of gay men & lesbian women who consider themselves to be among the faithful, being so willing to go to war & torture those whom they deem a threat to their Christian way of life...
Yeah, I'm thinking that removing white, straight, conservative men who are hung like toddlers from positions of authority & power, will probably be a good thing for today's society and the world in general.
So, let's all sing... "Going to the chapel and I'm going to get meh heh air reed. Going to the chapel of luuuv..."
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A substantial percentage of men who have homosexual sex still consider themselves "straight," a survey of New York City men suggests.
The findings imply that doctors should not rely on a man's self-described sexual orientation in assessing his risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Instead, they should ask patients specific questions about their sexual behavior, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Preeti Pathela of the New York City health department.
The findings are based on a 2003 health department survey that included 4,193 men age 18 and up. Respondents were asked about their sexual behavior and their sexual orientation.
Almost 4 percent said they were homosexual, while 91 percent described themselves as "straight." The rest said they were bisexual, "unsure," or declined to answer.
But of men who considered themselves heterosexual, nearly 10 percent had had sex with a man, but no woman, in the past year, Pathela's team found. And of the 337 survey respondents who'd had sex with another man, almost 73 percent identified themselves as straight.
Cultural norms may have played a significant role in the discrepancy, according to the researchers. Foreign-born men, who make up a large proportion of New York City men, were more likely than their U.S.-born counterparts to call themselves heterosexual despite having sex with other men.
Men raised in cultures less accepting of homosexuality may be "reluctant" to identify themselves as such, Pathela's team notes, or they may have a narrow definition of what constitutes homosexuality.
In general, self-described heterosexuals, whether they had sex with men or not, had fewer sexual partners than men who said they were homosexual. However, self-described straight men who had sex with other men were less likely than gay men to have had an HIV test recently or to use condoms.
This pattern is "troubling," according to the researchers, and it highlights the need to target STD prevention messages beyond men who call themselves homosexual.
"It is of utmost importance for providers to take a sexual history that ascertains the sex of (the) partner or partners," Pathela's team writes. "Given our data, asking about a patient's sexual identity will not adequately assess his risk."
SOURCE: Annals of Internal Medicine, September 19, 2006.
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