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Gay sexual practices



Circuit party attendance, club drug use, and unsafe sex in gay men.
Just as 'out' gay men have a duty to protect themselves from others forcing their will upon them, men refusing to conform to the label should acknowledge their sacrifice. What does it mean to put a label on your sexuality, to assign a category to your own existence? And where does it come from? Does it result from your actions, or how you feel inside? But just as labels can reassure, they can also confine or confuse, or seem like a restriction to those terrified of being defined by it for ever. You are who you are. James identifies as gay, but his first proper relationship was with a man who did not.


You don’t have to label yourself as gay or straight, but the reasons why matter
Let's talk about gay sex — because even in , misconceptions are seemingly inescapable. Maybe that's because sex between men or women, for that matter is still all but absent from mainstream media. In fact, the Elton John biopic "Rocketman," released in May, is reportedly the first big-budget studio film with a sex scene between two men.
T he number of people believing there is nothing wrong with gay sex has fallen for the first time since the Aids crisis. The findings coincide with the first decrease in more than a decade of people comfortable with pre-marital sex. On the plus side, last week also saw the Commons victory for gay legislation in Northern Ireland. Still, what a hammering same-sex couples have had recently — everything from attacks on buses to Ann Widdecombe the Aunt Lydia of Brexit, anyone? In this context, is the NatCen survey indicative of new attitudes, or yet more evidence that people are feeling bolder about expressing previously veiled prejudices?