Sex between consenting adults can be a fun, funny, and even awkward experience, and sometimes those experiences are more about, well, experimenting.
References
Silva, T.
(2021). Neither can his un-straight behavior be dismissed as simply “experimenting.”
Sociologist Tony Silva (2021) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver interviewed straight-identified men who live in rural America—many of whom enjoy hunting, fishing, shooting guns, and other “manly” sports. We ended up back at his place, with several rounds in us and nothing but hormones.
We ended up fooling around — hands and mouths went almost everywhere..."
14."I'm gay, but my best friend is not.
Five take-home messages
- Straight-identified men can exist on a sexual and/or romantic spectrum.
- Straight men can be sexually fluid.
One thing led to another..."
11."I'm straight and have hooked up with men a few times, almost always as an anonymous/discreet encounter. The winners couldn't stop laughing because we both had full chubs by the end of the song."
7."Gay here. Bud-sex cemented their rural masculinity and heterosexuality, and distinguished them from other men who have sex with men.
Giving oral to a dude was pretty meh.
I decided to take a chance and meet him at his house. I told him that I would prefer not. To this day, he's in the top two of the most attractive people I’ve ever hooked up with, lol..."
6."My buddy and I lost a beer pong game, and our losing punishment was that we both had to strip naked and give each other a lap dance. Their narratives show how similar sexual practices carry different meanings across contexts and populations.”
I couldn’t agree more.
After it was general knowledge that I was gay, a handful of my straight guy friends made passes at me from home and in college. It's never a topping/bottoming thing. Never went farther than oral..."
16."I used to kiss my best friend on the lips. Back in high school, we were all very loose with our actions. He is not necessarily secretly hiding his sexuality, nor is he necessarily in denial about the meaning of such attractions.
He took my face in his hands, and we full-on made out with tender fondling and butt groping and everything..."
Source: New York University Press, used with permission
A straight man might identify as straight even though he has sex or falls in love with other men.