cross-postowane z: https://szmer.info/post/4076080

To be clear, I want to mention right away that I’m not a homophobe; I’m a filo-homo person. Gays shouldn’t be condemned. Everyone should be tolerant and love one another. Spread love…

»Don’t you guys think that more and more diudes are starting to look like gays and generally tolerate homosexual behavior in themselves and experiment? Because I’m hearing more and more often that a man chose men over women, or that guys did something together while drunk… How much is this phenomenon increasing? «

Do you think a certain steady trend is continuing? More and more people are discussing topics related to homosexuality.

I’ll finish the rest of my argument in the comments, because a lot of time has been spent on pleasantries. Not everyone wants to read everything. »WARMING: This discussion is intended for emotionally mature individuals.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Ugh. I’m from a highly religious country and some of our religious right have this misconception that LGBTQ+ people all move from one drug fuelled orgy carnivale to the next, make out in the streets and that they shouldn’t be allowed to mix with children because they will end up influencing their fragile minds. Heavy on anecdote and empty on fact.

  • Vibi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    I don’t even understand what’s being asked. Women can be gay, so the title itself is baffling. Implying that men wearing pink or any type of physical presentation implies anything about someone’s sexuality is just weird. Yes, as society moves past its weird obsessions about people’s sexuality, we’ll see more of every type of couple and relationship dynamics.

  • AntyReddit@szmer.infoOP
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    3 months ago

    What is: look like gay. It’s not just about clothing, but men in pink??? Pink on male is so popular. You know, there are certain typical clothing elements—rainbows, etc. There’s more and more strange expression in men.

    There’s increasing recognition of ASD, is strongly associated with being gay in scientific discourse…

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10280200/

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37346988/

    In some charts from one study, there’s also a noticeable trend among men. This is likely due to the common lie where a bisexual identifies as straight, or a gay man says he’s bi or straight. For peace of mind, for example. For women, being a lesbian carries fewer social consequences. It’s a presumed statistical effect. I’ve also learned from various forums that many men who identify as heterosexual have received oral sex from a gay friend. I know there are men who enjoy sex with another man but don’t like cuddling with them. Once, a friend in class—an openly gay guy—almost laid on top of me. My high school athlete friends often touched each other and made comments. It seemed like just slapping and grabbing, but you know. Once they even started playing with each other’s balls. In fact, I’ve been touched the most in my life by other guys, usually through slapping or fighting- by the accident. Men sometimes like to pretend to be gay for laughs, for example, dancing together or pretending to flirt. On the other hand—hungry men think of bread.

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Dude, you’re way overthinking simple things. Humans generally like sex. Some humans like sex with men, some with women, some with both. Due to social pressures a lot are not willing to admit what they like, but that’s beside the point.
      Edit: and fashion changes through different mechanisms only tangentially related to sex.

        • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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          3 months ago

          First a disclaimer - I’m not a historian but I’m very interested in history. And based on my general feeling no there hasn’t been much change in same-sex attraction in humans in the last 4500 years. There has been a change in the way it’s talked about though. A couple of hundred years ago they wouldn’t be using concepts like “gay” or “straight”, but we have more than enough evidence same-sex relationships were practiced.

          Of course given that statistics as a science only existed for the last 150 years we only have anectotal evidence rather than hard numbers.

          By the way the reason I chose the number 4500 years is because that’s when we have the earliest confirmed same-sex marriage.

          History is fascinating, hope I gave you some inspiration to explore :)

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Be aware that your above conclusions and assumptions are based on false premises and faulty logic from a position of apparent ignorance based on a very limited moment in culture and time and none of what I’ve read here has any bearing on your question or the prevalence of homosexuality.

      To the post question: no, there’s no evidence of that.

      To all of your other concerns(?), you would do well to read up on the as-old-as-time and as-broad-as-the-globe history of homosexuality and queer culture, which is infinitely broader and more involved than the anecdotes you’ve thrown out which don’t have anything to do with your topic.

      Time to read.