Gay Men On Craigslist ads Don’t want Men who Identify as Gay

Oh girl…..

A study conducted by Eric Schrimshaw, PhD, at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Martin J. Downing, Jr., PhD, of the National Development and Research Institutes, found evidence that men having sex with men use the Internet to find sexual partners who do not identify as gay, either to fulfill a fantasy or because it allows anonymous sexual encounters without discovery. The findings are online in the journal, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, published by the American Psychological Association.

Among the ads studied, 11% were placed by men seeking non-gay-identified NGI partners. Although men who posted NGI-seeking ads were more likely to self-identify as bisexual, married, and/or discreet and to seek out an anonymous encounter relative to the ads of comparison men, only 24% of online advertisements seeking NGI men were posted by men who were themselves non-gay-identified. This suggests that many of the posts are placed by gay men seeking NGI men, perceived by some gay men to be more masculine, dominant, or “straight-acting.”

And we needed a study for this?? 

via One in 10 male, same-sex Craigslist ads seek men who don’t identify as gay.

  1. Jim Hlavac
    Jim Hlavac03-31-2014

    those are “bisexuals.” –

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