What's new about this? According to my straight brother the fat/less than pretty girls are always the ones that will blow you in the bathroom.

They probably don't get hired or promoted as easily as pretty boys, either. The ugly tax is universal, and it doesn't just apply to gay men.

Yep. This is not news, regardless of the lifestyle.

What would be more interesting is to know WHY they're engaging in risky behavior? Is it because of a lower self-esteem or because of desperation/fearing rejection? Or something else?

"Professor Adam Isaiah Green of sociology interviewed dozens of gay men". that's a pretty low amount of people to determine something so nebulous and controversial...and isn't obvious that self esteem has a role in most compulsive behavior?

I'd comment here, but I'm 47 and only a little better than average-looking, so I don't exist. I think, therefore I'm not?

Finally, validation for all that time you spend at the gym!!!

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Pics.

Dozens of men is a low sample number. I think it was irresponsible for the study to draw generalized conclusions from that. I think this is an important issue to look into, and I'm sure the results wouldn't be radically different with a higher sample number, but the study would probably have more credibility if it included more men

@4 - I think it's more the desperation thing than the low self-esteem thing. As a gay man, you can feel great about yourself, but you still run into the whole, "Unless I blow him/let him do me w/o a condom, I ain't gettin any" deal.

Fortunately, there are enough cute younger guys who like older guys to keep the whole situation from becoming too tragic & Morissey-like.

@8 - Li'l ol' me? Aww, geez Mr. P, you made my day!

Of course, if I don't exist, then I'd just be posting a picture of nothing, right? ;-)

and does basic sex drive and low or high libidio have anything to do with it?

some gay men are not much interested in marathon sex, I wonder if they are guilt tripped a lot

others of us can enjoy hundreds of encounters over 30-40 years and never blink - and even remember names and dick configs

it is just a little pat the gay men are always depicted in some morass state, how trite, and of course we must die at the end of the romance film or book

bad fathes, too good mommies, there is a long list of suppositions that do not die easily

by the way the bath house full of mostly naked guys - some in towls - repudiates this survey - PURE democracy in motion

ask Charles, he will do a treatise about the seul class environment of the gay steam houses

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Pics.

Breaking News--Unsafe Sex Linked to Low Self-Esteem!

(Jeebus, how many times do we have to rediscover this?)

@13 - My, you are persistent, aren't you?

Awesome that a major university funds such a study. Oh, in Canada. You don't say?

Let's not neglect the professor's hilarious coinage of the term "erotic capital" as the measurement of a person's desirability.

I'd like to see if the desirability is determined using a set of objective (and objectively applied) criteria, or if there's some subjectivity in the mix, i.e. cute guy doesn't think he's cute, and so is at risk. The current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior isn't online with Seattle Public Library databases yet - curses.

Pretty trumphs everything. Duh.

My tuition went to this? Fuck! Where's my student centre?

"Ugly and Desperate" would be a more apt title for this post than "Hot and Safe".

People who can't get any will get it anywhere they can. Duh.

Ugly people unite!?!

Maybe ugly people should just be happy with other ugly people. Then they wouldn't be so desperate to hook a hottie.

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Before anyone told me I was attractive (and I'm not anymore), I did anything and everything, and was pretty risky. I punished myself for eating, too. Maybe it's just a side effect of dating men.

@22. No, it's a side effect of dating "guys." Dating men is a whole 'nother thing.

I learned the truth at 17/That love was made for beauty queens...

Before trashing the article, its method, its conclusion, it would probably help if you would read it first. As someone who HAS read the study, its much more sophisticated and qualified then the media blurb, and certainly the discussion on this forum.