Straight-Curious: Explanation of Gay Sex and Dating Slang
Article Title: Making Sense of Gay Sex & Dating Lingo You May Have Heard
The article Str8Curious, part of the monthly AskMen column, provides lifestyle advice from openly gay expert Joey Skladany. Skladany addresses various queries from heterosexual men about sex, dating, and the LGBTQ+ community. Joey provides honest advice, clears misconceptions, and is frank about homosexual topics. Those interested in asking questions can contact Joey directly on Instagram or via email.
Reader Question: Ronald, a recently out gay man later in life from Evanston, IL, asks for explanations about various terms related to gay men and gay sex.
The Answer: Joey acknowledges that the terms might come across as confusing. He informs that many unique (and often amusing) terms have been devised by gay men to describe typical body types, sex preferences, and archetypes in their community.
These terms may often come across as honor badges but Joey reminds us that these aren’t meant to be overarching labels. People are complex and can fit into more than one group, sometimes depending on their daily situations.
Joey provides insights into numerous popular names, phrases, and expressions along with their meanings. Though these meanings may have different interpretations in different regions, Joey advises to always choose your words wisely and to ask if something might be offensive.
Glossary of Gay terms: Joey explains a few terms like barebacking (Anal sex without condoms), Bator (individual who prefers masturbation over any other sex activity), BDSM (acronym for bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism). Other terms include bull (an extra-large, beefy bodybuilder), bussy (a ‘boy pussy), and chub (an overweight man or a semi-erection). Terms like cub, circuit queen, cruising, and daddy are explained as well. The list is continued with the explanation of terms like dom, edging, fem, fox, furry, gayby, gaysian, gold star gay, heteroflexible, JO, jock, masc, NSA, otter, pig, poz, pup, queer, rosebud, scat, side, size queen, sounding, sub, trade, trans, twink, twunk, UC, vers/switch, watersports and wolf.
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