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Religion There's Nothing Gay About The Anal Aisle At a Bible Belt Porn Shop
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:23 PM
Most people—we're talking real numbers here—who "want to use anus for sex" are straight.
A higher percentage of gay men engage in anal intercourse, of course, but when it comes to actual numbers—hard numbers—straight people appropriate the anus for unintended uses in much greater numbers than gay people do. And lesbians, as I've pointed out, don't have anuses. So lesbians are clearly God's chosen (if constipated) people.
Anal sex is a lot like sit-ups, brunch, and nipple rings—it's not just for gay men anymore.
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Brunch was never a gay thing. I always thought it was a visiting-with-your-Ashkenazi-Jewish-older-relatives thing. Why else would it center around lox&bagel so much?
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I go to medical school in the bible belt and I tried to convince people of this fact (more straight people have anal sex than gay people) during a discussion on HIV transmission and anal sex (crazy christian one said "you mean gays" when I brought up transmission rates for the receiving partner in anal intercourse). I was afeared for my life.
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@ 1 - No, he's right. We really don't have anuses. We traded them in for flannel and birkenstocks when we got our official rugmunchers membership cards.
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If God had intended for men to have sex with each other, he would have given them cocks, mouths, hands, asses, thighs and armpits. And feet.
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@4
Did you explain how that accounts for the fact that homosexual men are 38X as likely to get/give AIDS as heterosexuals?
Did you explain how that accounts for the fact that homosexual men are 38X as likely to get/give AIDS as heterosexuals?
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And this is why statistics is a backassward science.
Yes, the percentage of gay men who participate in anal sex is higher than the percentage of straight men who participate in anal sex BUT because there are more straight men (or at least men who identify themselves as straight) than gay men this means that the actual number of straight men who participate in anal sex is larger than the number of gay men even though close to all gay men participate in anal sex (if the percentage previously offered of 93% is correct).
Although I am not sure how you count who is gay, straight, transgendered, bi-curious, etc... I don't recall seeing that question on the last census poll.
Yes, the percentage of gay men who participate in anal sex is higher than the percentage of straight men who participate in anal sex BUT because there are more straight men (or at least men who identify themselves as straight) than gay men this means that the actual number of straight men who participate in anal sex is larger than the number of gay men even though close to all gay men participate in anal sex (if the percentage previously offered of 93% is correct).
Although I am not sure how you count who is gay, straight, transgendered, bi-curious, etc... I don't recall seeing that question on the last census poll.
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Wait, Dan's announcing there's more straight people than gay people? That's some hard reporting there, mate.
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@16: That's quite the revelation for Dan. :)
But seriously, what this really means is:
(Percentage of straight men who like the butt * number of straight men) > (Percentage of gay men who like the butt * number of gay men).
Which also shouldn't be shocking to anyone (heh. Or crimson shocking!), but is likely also true.
But seriously, what this really means is:
(Percentage of straight men who like the butt * number of straight men) > (Percentage of gay men who like the butt * number of gay men).
Which also shouldn't be shocking to anyone (heh. Or crimson shocking!), but is likely also true.
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@13: What Dan is saying is that if you want to get rid of all the people who "want to use the anus for sex," you'll have to get rid of a lot of straight people. Me, for example.
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Totally apart from Dan's valid point about absolute numbers -- do these wingnuts really believe by preventing gay men from marrying they can also prevent them from having anal sex? Like they're all going to sit around thinking "Darn, can't have sex outside marriage, can't get married, guess it's celibacy for me!"?
If anything, legalizing gay marriage will cut down on the total amount of anal sex had by gays -- at least if Dan's letters about the typical development of the sex life of married couples are anything to go by.
If anything, legalizing gay marriage will cut down on the total amount of anal sex had by gays -- at least if Dan's letters about the typical development of the sex life of married couples are anything to go by.
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Wait, did Glen Beck really come out in favor of gay marriage? (as per the article Dan linked) Really?! Huh. Wow.
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