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This is immersive research, and his thick description of big gay men’s lives is carefully wrought.
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Despite his confessed anxiety about groups (which makes his choice of PhD subject an interesting one) he spent nearly three years executing a painstaking ethnography of their world, attending their bar nights, kaffeeklatsches, restaurant outings, pot-luck dinners, holiday bashes, pool parties, game and movie nights, and weekend retreats.
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The subjects of Jason Whitesel’s book, which grew out of a doctoral thesis, are members of Girth and Mirth, a Midwestern American social club for big gay men. What if you are middle-aged and not just chubby but downright fat? Then see how your gay capital dribbles away. This has been in many ways wonderful to see, but there are downsides. In order to escape shame, gay identity has polished up masculinity. I feel a mixture of pleasure in their achievement and concern at the pressure underlying such physical perfection. I live in Brighton near the park that hosts Pride, and every August I see thousands of these men streaming past. Through symbolic and real labour, this type of gayness has become aspirational. Young gay men have become icons of modernity, their bodies sculpted, moisturised and sweet-smelling. Gay men are under intense pressure to perform like so many Duracell bunnies at the gym, building smooth and muscular bodies for the society of the spectacle. But those of us who are old enough will remember that Robinson’s voice was filled with dark irony, and that gay life remains hard work. This legacy has resulted in a reverse discourse – or a compensation narrative, depending on your point of view – where everyone, as Tom Robinson sang, is now glad to be gay. Stereotypes of previous eras contain enough sadness, shame and tragedy to fill a well of loneliness. We're also on Facebook & Google+.Modern Western gay identity has worked hard at desirability. Follow Life's Little Mysteries on Twitter llmysteries. But as for why genetic factors would exist that make men gay, it appears that these genes make women, as well as gay men, alluring to other men.įollow Natalie Wolchover on Twitter nattyover. He noted that environmental factors - including the level of exposure to certain hormones in the womb - also play a role in molding male sexuality. "It is quite possible that there are several influences on forming a homosexual orientation," said Gerulf Rieger, a sexual orientation researcher at Cornell University. Of course, no single factor can account for the varied array of sexual orientations that exist, in men as well as in women. The new study will appear in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Attracting and choosing from the best males enables these women to produce more offspring, he noted.
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"In other words, compared to the others, perfect for a male," Camperio Ciani said. Turns out, the moms and aunts of gay men have an advantage over the moms and aunts of straight men for several reasons: They are more fertile, displaying fewer gynecological disorders or complications during pregnancy they are more extroverted, as well as funnier, happier and more relaxed and they have fewer family problems and social anxieties. The androphilic pattern that we found is about females who increase their reproductive value to attract the best males," Camperio Ciani told Life's Little Mysteries. "High fecundity, that means having more babies, is not about pleasure in sex, nor is it about promiscuity.
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Rather than making women more attracted to men, the "gay man gene" appears to make these women more attractive to men. But after investigating the characteristics of 161 female maternal relatives of homosexual and heterosexual men, the researchers have adjusted their hypothesis. Previously, the Italian researchers suggested that the "gay man gene" might simply increase androphilia, or attraction to men, thereby making the males who possess the gene homosexual and the females who possess it more promiscuous. But how might the "gay man gene" make females more reproductively successful? A new study by Camperio Ciani and his team addresses the question for the first time.