Do women like gay men

Many women are attracted to the fearlessness and lack of self-consciousness in gay men. In many ways, gay men and straight women are a perfect pairing. For the most part. Straight women are attracted to men and so fiction that puts two men together especially appeals to them.

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It’s not quite as objectifying as the way straight men are with lesbians, but I think it follows that same thought pattern. Evolutionary psychology and human mating can help explain why relationships between straight women and gay men tend to flourish, the author writes. Highlights • Attractive women may befriend gay men to mitigate heightened mating threats. • Thus, we predicted that these women would value gay men's advice and friendship.

• Attractive women are more likely to be deceived by straight men and straight women. • Attractive women place high value on gay men's nonsexual desire and mating. In a pair of studies on the intimacy of interactions between over heterosexual women and their male conversation partners, researchers found that the women had friendlier, more open interactions with gay men who disclosed their sexual orientation compared to men who revealed that they were straight.

Posted March 30, Reviewed by Jessica Schrader. Francis Xavier University. Can men and women ever just be friends? A recent study published in Psychological Science has attempted to answer this question by exploring the differences in how friendships develop between women and men as a function of the man's sexual identity.

In other words, they examined how friendship development varies based on whether a straight woman is making friends with a gay man or a straight man. Past research has shown that straight women and gay men form close relationships due to an apparent increased willingness to engage in intimate conversations 1. Some have suggested that this may be because straight men and women are perceived as having less in common with each other compared to straight women and gay men 2.

This explanation, however, is based on the stereotypical assumptions about gay men and femininity.

Consequently, researchers at the University of Texas explored an alternate potential explanation: Straight women may develop friendships with gay men more easily than they do with straight men, because when interacting with gay men, the necessity of worrying about whether the potential friend will seek to gain sexual access to them has been removed from the equation 3.

In other words, concerns about miscommunication over sexual interest may make straight women more hesitant when interacting with straight men. Two studies were conducted. The first asked women to predict their levels of comfort when engaging in hypothetical conversations with men. Participants were asked to imagine sitting in a waiting room with a male stranger who initiated a conversation with them. Initially, women provided ratings of how comfortable they would be interacting with this stranger based on a generic scenario in which they were unaware of the hypothetical man's sexual identity.

Participants again indicated how comfortable they thought they would be while continuing to interact with the man after learning of his sexual identity either gay or straight. The women reported greater comfort levels when interacting with gay men compared to straight men. They were more intimate, positive, and engaging, orientating their bodies towards the man, and their conversations lasted longer.

This novel research provides insight into the development of friendships—both those between straight men and women, as well as gay men and straight women. Thus, with respect to the original question of whether men and women can ever "just be friends," the answer may hinge on whether that man is gay or straight. If he is straight, anxiety and concern about his sexual intentions will delay the development of a trusting and close friendship, perhaps, in some cases, even indefinitely.

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