It’s OK to get
involved in a
bit of man-on-
man action.IT’S AFTER-HOURS AT
A BAR IN THE CITY AND
KELLY, A STRAIGHT,
19-YEAR-OLD UNIVERSITY
STUDENT, IS MAKING OUT
WITH A GAY GUY.
They’d met the previous day
at a social-media marketing
conference and become fast
friends, sitting side by side
while Kelly trolled Tinder
and he swiped through his
Grindr. He made her laugh
when he showed her that he’d
packed an extra suitcase filled
only with shoes. But he was
also, in Kelly’s eyes, super-hot.
“We started dancing, and
it just happened. Like, Oh, hey,
this feels right,” she recalls. It
wasn’t the first time Kelly had
made out with a gay man...
and it probably won’t be the
last. Her friends make fun of
her for it, but she doesn’t care.
In fact, she says, “Queer guys
are my type.” There have been
other make-out sessions andhook-ups (but not intercourse)
with “effeminate” guys who
were either gay or seemed like
they “swung both ways”, she
says. A recent summer fling
was a bisexual guy who was
usually with men.
Straight guys have long
salivated over same-sex lady
action: “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!” is
the rallying cry of the basic
bro six beers deep at the bar,
urging his girl friends to go
at it for his enjoyment. Pretty
much every threesome in pop
culture shows one lucky man
sandwiched between two hot,
sultry women (Vicky Cristina
Barcelona, Savages, Wild
Things), whether lesbians or
just conveniently gorgeous,
sexually fluid women.It’s been more hush-hush- and can feel more taboo –
but some straight women feel
the same way about gay men.
Like Kelly, some are down
to make out or hook up with
them in real life, a community
that reluctantly calls itself
girlfags or “girls who like boys
who like boys”. But far more
common is to fantasise about
two hot guys having hot sex.
Last year, researchers at
the University of Montreal
asked 1516 people about their
sexual fantasies and found
that approximately 1 in 5
women are attracted to the
idea of two men having sex.
Out and proud gay stars are
total heartthrobs. Remember
the rabid Matt Bomer fan >
love & lust
COSMOPOLITAN November 2015 131
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