Mostly Straight
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Mostly Straight

Sexual Fluidity among Men

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eBook - PDF

Mostly Straight

Sexual Fluidity among Men

About this book

Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you're straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those categories are too rigid. They are, they insist, "mostly straight." They're straight, but they feel a slight but enduring romantic or sexual desire for men. To the uninitiated, this may not make sense. How can a man be "mostly" straight? Ritch Savin-Williams introduces us to this new world by bringing us the stories of young men who consider themselves to be mostly straight or sexually fluid. By hearing about their lives, we discover a radically new way of understanding sexual and romantic development that upends what we thought we knew about men.

Today there are more mostly straight young men than there are gay and bisexual young men combined. Based on cutting-edge research, Savin-Williams explores the personal stories of forty young men to help us understand the biological and psychological factors that led them to become mostly straight and the cultural forces that are loosening the sexual bind that many boys and young men experience. These young men tell us how their lives have been influenced by their "drop of gayness," from their earliest sexual memories and crushes to their sexual behavior as teenagers and their relationships as young adults. Mostly Straight shows us how these young men are forging a new personal identity that confounds both traditional ideas and conventional scientific opinion.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. The Sexual Neverlands
  7. Straight but Not Narrow
  8. Dillon
  9. Sexual and Romantic Spectrums
  10. Romantic Orientation
  11. Sexual and Romantic Fluidity
  12. It Is Who I Am
  13. Straight, but Not Totally Straight
  14. Demetri
  15. Ricky
  16. Chris
  17. Progressive Mostly Straight
  18. It’s about the Sex
  19. Five Young Men
  20. Ryan
  21. Kyle
  22. It’s about the Romance
  23. Two Romantic Young Men
  24. Jay
  25. It’s about the Sex and the Romance
  26. Joel
  27. Chandler
  28. Do Mostly Straight Youth Exist?
  29. Dillon Returns
  30. Developmental Trajectories
  31. If You Believe You Are Mostly Straight
  32. Escaping the Sexual Neverlands
  33. Appendix A: Methods
  34. Appendix B: Mostly Straight Science
  35. Notes
  36. Acknowledgments
  37. Index