And man crushes … I would say I’m 99 percent straight with my 1 percent being those moments where noticing or thinking what would it be like to have sex with a guy.” - Ben, age 22 “I’ve had bromances, I guess you could say.
We never kissed, but emotionally we kissed.” - Kevin, age 19 “I wrestled with this guy, my drill partner, and we got very close. “He opened my eyes that it is not wrong for a straight guy to have attractions or crushes on other guys.” - Brady, age 18 “If I were to meet a man who I was attracted to, I would not be afraid to be attracted to them.” - Demetri, age 19 I have man crushes when a male is so cool … I like the idea of male fluidity.” - Leo, age 21
Here’s a small sampling of what they’ve told me. The 40 young men I interviewed for my book would disagree. Perhaps if a young woman were to make the same claims as these men, we wouldn’t be surprised: Women, not men, are supposedly fluid in their sexual and romantic lives. When I tell people about my work, they often assume these men are joking, or that they are really closeted gays. In it, I draw from the experiences of young men to make the case that an increasing number say they’re straight, but feel a slight but enduring sexual or romantic desire for men. I even borrowed his words as the title for my new book, Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity Among Men. Hutcherson typifies the young men (he’s 25 years old) I’ve interviewed over the years in my work as a research psychologist: those who embrace sexual ambiguity over neat and simple identity boxes. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded.”Īt the time, the actor’s comments attracted considerable attention from the media, and the interview caught my eye, too. But who knows? In a fucking year, I could meet a guy and be like, ‘Whoa, I’m attracted to this person’ … I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s a good-looking guy,’ you know? I’ve never been, like, ‘Oh, I want to kiss that guy.’ I really love women. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.In 2013, Hunger Games actor Josh Hutcherson told an interviewer for Out magazine that he was, in his own words, “mostly straight.” “Maybe I could say right now I’m 100 percent straight. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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