Kinky gay men who are open and honest with partners are more likely to have better mental health

Gay men have revealed the fetishes they don’t want others to know about.

XTube surveyed their users to determine and rank which fetishes they get turned most on by.

The winner was ‘partialism’, also known as a fetish for a particular part of the body. This could be anything from feet to a hairy chest.

Role play was second on the list, while narratophilia (or dirty talk) was third on the list.

The answers was collected from over 3,000 gay or bisexual men over the age of 18.

Fetishes

The full list:

1. Partialism (9.54%)

2. Role play (8.24%)

3. Narratophilia [or dirty talk] (7.55%)

4. Uniforms [firefighters, soldiers etc] (7.41%)

5. Bondage (7.31%)

6. Submission (7. 3%)

7. Exhibitionism [sex in a place you can get caught] (6.28%)

8. Voyeurism [watching others have sex] (4.7%)

9. Maschalagnia [armpits] (3.4%)

10. Macrophilia [someone being bigger than you] (2.79%)

11. Olfactophilia [smells and odors] (2.52%)

12. Clothing fetishism [leather, rubber] (2.14%)

13. Underwear fetishism [jockstraps, etc] (2.01%)

14. Ablutophilia [baths, showers] (1.78%)

15. Technosexuality [robots, toys etc] (1.4%)

16. Medical fetishism [doctors etc] (1.36%)

17. Podophilia [feet] (1.24%)

18. Coulrophilia [clowns] (1.11%)

19. Sitophilia [food] (1%)

20. Pygophilia [bums] (0.79%)

21. Transvestophilia [wearing clothing typically worn by the opposite gender] (0.65%)

22. Toonophilia [cartoons] (0.3%)

Kink and mental health

If you are kinky, psychotherapists advise to share it with your partners if you already have good communication.

Also, some studies say people who do engage in kink are more likely to have positive mental health.

Deborah Fields, a kink-specialist and psychotherapist, told Gay Star News: ‘[There are studies that say] people who are kinky are more likely to be ok with themselves. People who are kinky tend to have better mental health than people who are not.

‘It’s a hard one to judge. I see a lot of mental health issues. However, do I see any more mental health issues than those outside of the kink community. No.

‘I think what kinky people do is talk more. We have to talk about our shit more than someone that doesn’t. You’re negotiating consent. That community, we, are more likely to discuss things and be open about mental health upfront. The idea of being risk-aware is also including mental health.

‘Research says we’re quite ok. However, there’s no widespread research that has yet to look at the kink community.

New calls for Kink to be added to LGBTI acronym

What do you think?

There are new calls for the letter ‘K’ (which stands for ‘Kink’) to join the LGBTI initialism.

According The Gay UK, the full all-inclusive list of initials is now: LGBTQQICAAAPF2K+

Breaking this down, the letters stand for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Agender, Ally, Pansexual, Polysexual, Friends and Family, Two Spirit and Kink.

But many took to Twitter to respond with confusion to the addition of ‘k’ to the list.

Some called out the fact kink is not a sexuality or a gender identity.

Vonny Leclerk said: ‘There’s now a K for Kink in the LGBT+ acronym. Really? Is kinkiness now viewed as a sexual orientation?’

Twitter user Sister Outrider wrote: ‘Just no. [It] is not a sexual orientation. People with sexual kinks do not face any structural or systematic discrimination as a result of those proclivities.’

‘Isn’t Pride all about celebrating who you have sex with?’

Previous forums on the subject also discuss the appropriateness of adding kink to the acronym.

On a previous MacRumors forum, one user wrote: ‘The queer community is already incredibly sexualized.’

‘One major problem I have with including kink in the LGBTQ+ community is it makes LGBTQ+ spaces inappropriate for minors. LGBTQ+ youth need safe spaces to express themselves and any struggles they may be facing as a result of their identity,’ they said.

But then another came to kink’s defence: ‘Personally, I see the sexual aspect of gay pride parades being the participants giving the finger to the people grossed out by the sexual aspect of their relationship as if that’s the only thing it is about.’

Then another said: ‘Isn’t Pride all about celebrating who you have sex with?’

What do you think?

Who watches the most kink and BDSM porn out of gay, bisexual or straight men?

Other findings include how one in five straight men watches gay porn

A new study has surveyed the porn-viewing habits of 821 gay, straight and bisexual men from across the US, and the results are very revealing.

One in five straight men watches gay porn and 55% of gay men watches straight porn.

Other findings included how bisexual men were far less interested in kink or BDSM than their straight or gay counterparts.

Dr Martin J Downing, the lead researcher, was surprised to find how 21% of men, who say they only had sex with women, would watch two men having sex together on screen.

He found sexual behavior and sexual identity seems to line up, with straight men having sex with women and (apart from a rare few) gay men having sex with men.

Downing said this ‘identity discrepant viewing’ as ‘some level of evidence’ of fluidity in sexual attraction, at least in the habits of what porn they watch.

Bisexual men displayed different porn-viewing habits to gay or straight men, with bis saying they watch guy-on-guy porn just as must as gay men do and watching guy-on-girl porn almost as much as straight men. They also reported watching a significant amount of ‘bisexual porn’, with two men and one woman or two women and one man.

Downing said this proves bisexual men are not ‘watered down gays or heterosexuals’.

‘[Bisexual men] are more like heterosexual men in some things, and more like gay men in other things, but that’s a reflection of their own unique attractions,’ he wrote in Archives of Sexual Behavior.

‘They’re not identical to either group in terms of their porn viewing, which I think is really interesting for understanding bisexuality.’

Both bi and straight men watched solo masturbation more than gay men (60% compared to less than 50%), and bi men were far less interested in porn involving BDSM or other kinks (13.7%) than straight (24.6%) or gay (27.9%). However, gay men were far more likely to watch videos involving fisting, felching or water sports.

Reference

• Gay Men Reveal the Fetishes They Don’t Want Others to Know About, Gay Star News, 22 May 2019, by Joe Morgan https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gay-men-reveal-the-fetishes-they-dont-want-others-to-know-about/#gs.6wpdah
• New calls for Kink to be added to LGBTI acronym, Gay Star News, 2 February 2018, by James Besanvalle https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/group-wants-k-kink-added-lgbti/#gs.dliasc
• Who watches the most kink and BDSM porn out of gay, bisexual or straight men?, Gay Star News, 5 January 2017, by Joe Morgan https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/watches-kink-bdsm-porn-gay-bisexual-straight-men/#gs.6wu0io