Downing sees this “identity discrepant viewing” as “some level of evidence” of fluidity in sexual attraction, at least in terms of what people are watching.
Their sexual behavior and sexual identity seem to line up. When his team looked at the data, they confirmed that the straight men didn’t report having sex with men, and the gay men (outside of a very small fraction) didn’t report having sex with women. Downing, the study’s lead researcher, had the same question. But when one out of five self-identified straight men reports watching gay porn, it prompts the further question: Are these men really straight, or are they down-low/straight-identified bisexual men?ĭr. So what gives? It’s no giant leap to hypothesize why gay men might enjoy watching straight porn: to watch straight guys. Among them: that 55 percent of gay men watch straight porn, and 21 percent of straight men watch gay porn.
A new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, which examined the porn-viewing habits of 821 gay, straight, and bisexual men from around the country, found a number of unexpected results.
