Study Shows: “Less Attractive” Men Have Riskier Sex

A new University of Toronto study, published in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social

Behavior, has found that gay men who are not generally considered to be “sexually desirable” or attractive are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior.

According to researcher Adam Isaiah Green, who interviewed 70 gay men in Toronto to determine what qualities made some men more sexually desirable than others, and what the consequences of being undesirable might be on mental and physical health:

“I found that young, white, middle-class men are considered much more sexually desirable than men who are racial minorities, over 40 and poor.”

Read the rest at Gay Persons of Color!

Sex and Politics Go Hand in Hand

You may be asking yourself, “What does she mean, sex is political?” Well, it’s quite simple.

Politics are our views and actions based on materialistic ideals. You can learn a lot about somebody by asking them what their political views are. For example, people who are pro-life aren’t just pro-life because they believe killing is wrong; they just can’t picture themselves being put on trial for killing an unborn child. Politics are personal and self-centered. People pick and choose their lovers based on so many political factors that have absolutely nothing to do with romance. Does he have a good eye color? Was she an acceptable beer pong partner? If we have kids, will they be attractive based on our looks? Are his pants designer? Does he go tanning, and if so, does that mean that he’s possibly gay?

And what about people who base their sexual preferences on political party affiliation? “I won’t sleep with him because he’s a Republican.” That’s just crap. It almost seems like people assume that during sex, their partner will begin to blurt out their views on tax cuts and abortion. Unless, of course, you’re participating in some orgy on the White House lawn accompanied by Bill Clinton (he wouldn’t miss it for the world) and Larry Craig (he’s not gay! He said so himself!), I doubt that would ever even happen. But then again, I never thought I would see a man who could have played poker with Jesus on the Republican ticket. Touché, America, touché.

Read the rest at hofstrachronicle.com.

Sex and the City: A Beijing Perspective

It was not just the guys. The women, too, seemed in thrall to their hormones, throwing around daring glances and dynamite smiles like confetti. No meal or coffee break was complete without a breathless conversation with a lithe long jumper from Cuba or an Amazonian badminton player from Sweden, the mutual longing so evident it was almost comical. It was an effort of will to keep everything in check until competition had finished. But, once we were eliminated from our respective competitions, we lunged at each other like suicidal fencers. There may have been a fair amount of gay sex going on, too - but given the notorious homophobia in sport it was rather more covert.

Read the rest at timesonline.co.uk.

Aussie Man Fined for Gay Sex Blackmail Scandal

Justin Williams, 39, this morning pleaded guilty to blackmail in the County Court after he demanded $1500 from a man who had engaged in gay sex in a toilet block at Merrimu Reserve near Melton.

In November last year, Mr Williams was sitting in his vehicle reading the newspaper when he saw a man walk into the toilet block with two other men.

He wrote down the phone number of one of the men from the side of a work van.

Read more at news.com.au.

The Religious Right Trying to Ruin Sex for Everyone

While the roots of the Religious Right lie in anti-black racism (a history that has now been largely overcome but still goes woefully underacknowledged), it got its start in American national politics by organizing against abortion and homosexuality.

In the wake of the legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1973, and in response to the growing public visibility of gays and lesbians in the 1970s and 1980s and their demands for an end to discrimination, evangelical conservatives could count on these two issues, along with more general calls for restrictions on sex education and the restoration of “traditional family values,” as their major fundraising and mobilizing tools. All through the 1990s, playing to homophobic reflexes was one of the Christian Right’s most popular tactics. But nothing has been more successful in the early twenty-first century than its ability to hijack the national conversation about heterosexuality.

Read more at alternet.org.

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