um i dunno if i've forgotten which state is new york here, it's been a long time since i've been in the country after all, but that most of them are bottoms isn't what i'm seeing on the map at all. you know, unless Rhode Island is the new New York.

also, i've no idea what the typical guy says, i'm a somewhat versatile bottom, and frankly, i know alot of bottoms.
what, are we supposed to be embarressed about taking it up the a**?

@dantalion: New York CITY is full of bottoms, not New York state.

Or most of the gay (or even closeted gay) men in American don't use Craigslist or Manhunt, so their data is more a sample of their users – not a sampling of America as a whole.

Tops are rare as hens' teeth in my town. There are plenty of versatiles, like me, but we're still vastly outnumbered by the cock-hungry bottom-boys.

sure got California wrong…

the nyt or wall street journal should join this trend and create this poll as well. LOL.

tops exist!!!omg!!!

Ahh, thanks for this purely scientific poll, Manhunt. No one ever lies in an online profile.

Mainly I think that manhunt has a lot of tops whereas gay.com has a lot of bottoms.

Wonderfully, in the Bay area, there are 20 bottoms for every top.

I have lived in NYC, DC and LA. My experience has been most of the gays I have met and have been friends with are bottoms. My experience has shown that most bottoms don't admit to being bottoms so I think this poll is little skewed by some fibbing.

Well based on experience with Manhunt about 1/2 of the profiles are ASK. Then you have a good portion Bottom/Versatile which means Bottom usually. A few Top/Versatile which I always equated to he's a top unless he is high or drunk then he becomes a bottom bitch.

I've never understood the stigma that comes with announcing to the world that one is a bottom. Do we all hate ourselves that much? I don't think people would like on Manhunt that they are top or bottom as what would be the point. But they stretch the truth as in all the stats they provide. The bottom becomes bottom/versatile which means he is a bottom unless after 12 hours of cruising Manhunt the only way he'll get laid by someone close to his own age is to top the guy. Hey people it's just sex. Relax.

umm what? Yes craigslist is very accurate. Texas is all bottoms, everyone knows that. blahhh

what man doesnt like his prostate tickled from time to time…..

Everyone is an individual and we all have various preferences in all aspects of life, including sex, and I truly to respect each person's individual taste. That being said, I've never totally understood the whole top/bottom phenomenom. I love to fuck and I love to get fucked. Both feel great. I'd never want to deny my other half the pleasure I get from both positions and it's so fun to just keep switching back and forth. But that's just me! Live and let live.

Well, North Dakota at least makes sense. You kinda have to take what you can get out there.

@stevenelliot: If you want a good prostate tickling, nothing beats one of these:

http://www.aneros.com

I think that at this level of aggregation, the data are useless. Maybe bottoms flow to metropolitan areas and tops stay on countryside (or vice-versa) so as to masquerade the State trend ? Besides how much is the imbalance ? Is is *that* statistical significant ? Should I add one more reason to move to California ?

Now I understand why my alma mater's song was "On Wisconsin!"

all this proves is that gay men lie just like straight men.

My gay male friends all laugh when I say this, but agree with me that "You guys have it best because you can have the best of both worlds!".

@Toby: Yeah, I get ya, what's the stigma with being a bottom? I have some friends that are bottom and, but it's like they don't like to admit it. What's up with that?

guys would be less embarrassed to identify as "bottoms" if you all would stop using those gross terms like "bottom" & "top".
that's sooo 20th century!
i've said it before, those terms are suspect, old fashioned, corny & demeaning.
how about "receptive" & "insertive"??
is that too pc for you, aunties?
duh, get with the program, girls.

I have fucked more guys who listed themselves as tops (not vers/tops) on manhunt than I can count

with less then 500 people on manhunt for the entire state of Montana, labeling us mostly vers. is crazy I've lived in MT my whole life (30yrs) and I can tell you those Vers. guy's are bottoms. We have more bottoms then we know what to do with. If your a bottom and in MT you almost have to make reservations a yr. in advance lol, besides making an assumption on such a small sampling isn't going to give much accuracy.

This is the dumbest post I've ever seen

Somehow I don't think that takes into account the T.O.P.s (Tops on Paper) that pervades those venues.

"I'm a top" get them into bed and they want to get fucked equals "versatile" but their queerphobic egos won't let them acknowledge they like getting fucked.

Well, I live in Atlanta, GA. If the entire state of Georgia is Tops, than I need to start looking outside of Atlanta because Atlanta is the bottom capital of Georgia. There are about twenty bottoms for each top. This also includes the bottoms who classify themselves as versatile. Nobody ever tells the truth on those sites anyway.

I thought it just funny and somewhat sad. It just goes to show how being a "bottom" has a negative reputation – especially among new or closeted gays, who are less likely to be comfortable with bottoming. Additionally, the whole idea of anonymous sex often causes guys to not want to feel the vulnerability that can often accompany bottoming. Overall this sampling is very flawed. Lets see a statistic taken from the bar scene – it will be very much the opposite.

Wrong! I live in Michigan and 90% of the gay men I have met throughout my life here have been bottoms. (or versatile, which of course means I'll TOP if I have to.)

ew, stop saying "bottoming".

Utah is mostly bottoms in my experience. :P

i don't believe this for a second. in my experience tops are actually quite rare. if gays can lie about their dick size (a study compiled from SELF-REPORTED data showed that gays have larger dicks on average, which i also think is untrue) then they can lie about this too.

Maybe by tops they mean "straight guys who say they're straight just so they can fuck gay bottoms, nsa, without commitment, and then go back home to their wife"

I'm not sure why any man would be a bottom. You could wind up with an STD or leaky bowels. It's not worth it. We've lost millions in our community from anal sex and thousands living with HIV. Gay men need to start empowering themselves and drop the top/bottom, sub/dom, insertive/receptive labels. Anyone can live without anal sex. Tops have this ego macho man thing, they're the man, the bottom is the pseudo vagina. The whole thing is ridiculous. If you do a little research you'll find in early history that anal sex was never part of being gay. It was frowned upon. If you want to be a top/insertive/dominant man then go have sex with a woman.

How does Tony have sex, we all wonder… Oral only? Which would be wonderful for me, since I'm totally orally oriented. Never met anyone who's like that too, though…

What ugly stupidness is this.
I don't sleep with tops or bottoms.
I sleep with men. One, usually.

@Fitz: Exactly right

@OMG: OMG, I don't know who these men are that you know, but not all gay men have anal sex. I thought everyone knew that. There's deep kissing, oral, body licking, body contact, frot, mutual masturbation, nipple play, lots of other exciting and erotic things to do with your partner. Why do something that's damaging to your body or another man's body? That's what anal sex does. And that's why so many gay American men have HIV, AIDS and damaged rectums. I know so many guys will say of course your anus is for sex because that's where your prostate is. My answer is always the same: if the anus were the male g spot and that wonderful a place, every man on the planet would be a bottom or verstatile.