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It seems silly that in 2016, straight people are still letting gay rights affect their own lives so directly, but a new UCLA psychology study published in the journal Psychological Science concludes that many straight people still oppose same-sex marriage because they fear the sexual promiscuity perceived in LGBTQs will somehow shake the foundation of their own marriages.
“Many people who oppose same-sex marriage are uncomfortable with casual sex and feel threatened by sexual promiscuity,” said David Pinsof, a UCLA graduate student of psychology and lead author of the study.
Which is bizarro on multiple levels.
Gay sex has nothing to do with you. If it was a song it would be called “Gay Sex,” not “Gay Sex (The Straight Sex Remix)”.
Related: Top University Engaged In 4-Year Study Of Guys Losing Their Gay Virginity
Pinsof added: “Sexual promiscuity may be threatening to these people because it provides more temptations for spouses to cheat on one another.”
If the ever-present thought of gay sex is hindering your relationship, you have way bigger problems than the institution of marriage being undermined.
“Opposition to same-sex marriage may be strategic by people who are seeking to protect their marriages and the marriages in their communities, and are fearful that changing the definition of marriage is threatening to their way of life,” Pinsof said. “Because they view gay people as promiscuous, they view the idea of same-sex marriage as undermining the institution of marriage.”
The participants who opposed same-sex marriage had a hard time disassociating “gay” and “promiscuous.”
Are all gay married couples monogamous? No. Are some? Yes. But there is nothing promiscuous about getting married (unless you’re one of the straight couples on Married at First Sight, the reality show that weds complete strangers).
Related: Study Shows Support For Gay Rights As Long As We Don’t Gross People Out By Kissing In Public
And then there’s another painfully real reason some conservatives are still afraid of their precious institutions being challenged — maintaining power.
“For people who are comfortable with women being more economically independent, marrying at a later age and having more sexual partners, sexual promiscuity is not as much of a threat because women do not depend on men for financial support.”
We get it. Rules feel good when you’re the one setting them. But how about you just focus on you. We won’t interfere — promise.
Rob Boeving
And why are they trying to picture gay sex?
DCguy
Kind of like when people trying to lose weight see a really skinny person chowing down on cheese fries or a huge ice-cream. They automatically hate them.
So basically social conservatives are jealous because they aren’t getting any.
Glücklich
Cue Bullshit Brian to ramble about gay-identifying homo-desire misogyny eugenics yaddada yaddada…
Frankie Trice
If they only knew how routine it all becomes; like Robin Williams said, it’s the same sex everynight. I remember my ex-wife telling me that I just had it 2 weeks ago, and she couldn’t understand why I needed it again. After a few years with my ex-boyfriend, talk about Karma!
Andrew Rankin
Filthy minded buggers. Dunno why they’re trying to picture gay sex when they can see most types of sex on T’Internet ð??
kzen64
@Rob Boeving: bicurious
Michael Haynes
Well one thing is for sure they are hell bent being obsessed with our sex lives.
Tobi
@Glücklich: I’m gobsmacked that he’s not already posted.
DCguy
@Glücklich:
Wow, it’s like he was already here.
Bauhaus
@Glücklich:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZXx98Uz4sE
Gary Hecklinger
Hmmmm so these people are jealous and also want wild gay sex?? Please intrigue me 🙂
Randy Judd
Ew, not reciprocated in imagining theirs, though I do imagine comparatively speaking what’s normal to one group is wild to another.
Bob LaBlah
From the article……. “Gay sex has nothing to do with you.”
I wouldn’t have added that part in the report nor analysis of the report. It has a lot do to with “you”, especially if you are a member of a church you and your family have belonged to for generations and have been taught otherwise.
Harlan Snyder
Why are they worried about our sex lives? Don’t they have to get to some church meeting some place???
Daniel-Reader
Out of all the myths they could pick or invent, remember that most heterosexuals picked the one where heterosexuals betray a supernatural creature and are cursed by it. They didn’t pick or invent one where heterosexuals are heroes who do good from the start and never fear an angry desert entity. For conservatives, they are even more enslaved to these self loathing tales from the Mideast. And the followers of these Mideast myths are so violently obsessed they have historically wiped out populations that refused to bow and scrape, so that tells you the fate of the heteros who believed non-self loathing tales. The cursed ones pass this cursed tale onto their children for some bizarre, cruel reasoning known only to them.
Sean Brennan
They should realize that gay marriage would probably lead to less gay sex.
onthemark
@Glücklich: LOL. Do Atticus next.
TampaZeke
Their arguments are illogical on many levels.
Straight people get married to commit themselves to one another and to prevent them from being whore dogs, but they don’t want gay people to get married because they’re all allegedly whore dogs.
Of course, when you have JEEZUS you don’t need logic or facts or science or intelligence or common sense. You just need some ignorant hillbilly in a cheap suit waving a bible in the air and screaming like a fool telling you what do think, believe and do.
kzen64
Glad my faith and religion (ELCA) isn’t at all like what’s described by people here.
Stefano
Same old, same old. Next !
John Malin
They must have truly dull sex lives if they have to picture what others do having sex. Talk about prurient minds !!!
Stefano
@kzen64: You mean like this?
https://www.elca.org/Faith/ELCA-Teaching
RIck Dean
I wonder if they consider “doing” some of the same things that aren’t gay specific?
Paco
“The participants who opposed same-sex marriage had a hard time disassociating “gay” and “promiscuous.””
Surprised?
Richard Lee Zweiben Klein
They must have no lives except to do mindless research that they can’t even get correct facts. Poor ignorant them.
Hank Trout
Straight Christians are FAR MORE OBSESSED with gay men’s dicks and asses than any gay man I’ve ever known — and I’ve been out for 45 years!
Brian JC Kneeland
Gee – I’m way behind on that – and their imaginations are way off base!
Jim Guinnessey
Jealous? No difference in sex. Sex is sex. Hetero wives riding their hubby’s dicks; hetero men putting their faces into wives vaginas and licking, sucking; hetero and homo all like assholes, even pissing on each other, etc., etc. Most of the so-called horror of gay sex is just more of the phony far right religious inspired horse shit. What are these pastors and their anti-gay, very envious, laity doing watching gay sex tapes? Masturbating?
GayEGO
Perhaps we should address the opposition with “Oh, you are straight, do you have an opposite gender significant other?”, “So you practice straight sex including oral sex such as having a box lunch?”, “Are you a straight married couple?”. That may get them to feel what it is like to be identified by their sex, the way we are, and they will think more about how they speak to us.
GayEGO
@Jim Guinnessey: Shhhhhh! The far right do not want their sexual secrets exposed as it will destroy their pretentious religious appearance.
nycbklyn
Its not just “conservative” thats a politically divisive tactic, all straights harbor fear and disrespect for gays because they imagine us getting topped and that in their minds makes us “less of a man”, “a b!tch”, in my personal experience have only met maybe three straight menwomen that I can honestly say totally have no problem with talking about gay anal sex, Ive found many are grossed out by it and many play like its cool only to be found out later. They also all assume we have anal sex with everyone and cobstantly, we are promiscuous in general, but hardly as much as they think
dean089
This reminds me of all the social conservatives who are obsessed with bestiality. I know and know of a LOT of people, and some of them are definitely into things that, to be kind, would be an acquired taste, but I’ve never known or heard of anyone who is actually into bestiality. Yet the social conservatives are CONSTANTLY talking about it, which makes me wonder if maybe they aren’t the ones actually into it.
Justin Weeks
Then they most be gay
Alan Gossett
In many communities if it was for all the “christains” there would be no cruising areas and no gay bars.
Doughosier
IDK, we ARE a lot more promiscuous. I once asked a straight, married friend how many women he had had sex with his whole life and it was something like 6 or 7. And he was a good looking, not overly religious guy. I almost choked. We have way more sex.
AtticusBennett
ha, my mum and i talked about this years ago. we’re gay. and what happens? they think about us butt-f***ing each other, instantly. they picture their sons slurping bone. they’re OBSESSED. and it’s hilarious, and stupid.
i mean, when you see your son off as he goes on a date with a young woman, do you instantly imagine what his techniques are going to be when he eats her pu**y???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyXdv_CMCQg
kzen64
@AtticusBennett: awe, that’s so sweet.
I’ve had several talks with my 16 yo son about sex. Okay, it’s mostly me doing the talking. We talk about being safe, respecting the other person, and using protection. Also how some people put a lot of emotions into the act of sex, and some people don’t. It’s up to him ultimately, but yeah, I don’t think about him having sex with anyone. Nor do I think about anyone else having sex with anyone else. I’m mostly concerned with what I do in life.
David Harlem
Wild gay sex? As though straight people only do it in the missionary position for purposes of procreation.
drivendervish
Does anybody really believe that if heterosexual people were convinced that gay people aren’t promiscuous they would change their opinion? I have always believed that a lot of the difficulty straight people have accepting gay people is because the picture they hold in their mind is specifically anal sex between two men. I am also pretty sure that if middle-aged parents were having sex they wouldn’t think about what other people are doing behind closed doors.They would be shocked by the number of straight guys having anal sex with their wife’s. But the place we need to get to is when people don’t wonder or worry about sex other people are engaging in since it’s none of their business.
Liam
@Rob Boeving: Well, he has to have some way to get off.
Liam
@drivendervish: AGreed. Now, how do we get there? For 44 years, I’ve been trying to convince str8s they shouldn’t care what I do in bed.
Liam
@Doughosier: That’s not because he doesn’t want to; it because he’s 100% convinced he will burn in Hell for being promiscuous.
Glücklich
@onthemark:
Bent beat me to it. I can’t bring myself to watch the video but I’m sure it’s something I’d never discuss with my parents.
Kangol
All that hot and steamy pleasurable gay sex is making these unhappy, sexually repressed heteros so unhappy and unstable in their relationships they’re about ready to explode. Absolutely pathetic!
Then again, I have a married straight friend who cannot stop bringing up gay sex whenever he talks about gay people. I finally asked him, are you interested in having sex with a man or what is the deal? He says he isn’t, but gay men boffing each other always seems to be on the surface of his mind when the top of gay people comes up.
Uncle Mark
Perhaps conservative straight folks feel they’re missing out on something, like this Ugandan minister explaining to everyone the “devious” sex practices of gay men. Tosh.0 had a field day with this minister talking about how all of us gay men apparently love to “eat da poo poo.”
https://youtu.be/yB17i5pOk1c
It’s amazing how they seem more fascinated with our private lives than we are with theirs. It must be that whole mysterious/forbidden/taboo thing that sucks ’em in…especially after some of them have added their own “theories” about us. You have to wonder what dark perversions lurk in their psyches.
girldownunder
I’ve commented on articles like this before. I believe it’s not only fear of sex/sexuality in general (based initially in religion repression), but fear of “kink”, or what they perceive as “indecent” sexual thoughts & desires (which they cannot “own” or accept in themselves as natural urges).
So, I’d call it self-repression of their own sexual kinks. Out of that comes the self-hatred projected out to “others”, namely LGBTI people.
I really think it’s true.
Imho