Who are we?

The Kinsey Scale

0- Exclusively straight

1- Predominantly straight, only incidentally gay

2- Predominantly straight, but more than incidentally gay

3- Equally straight and gay

4- Predominantly gay, but more than incidentally straight

5- Predominantly gay, only incidentally straight

6- Exclusively gay

Whatever our real orientations may be on the straight-gay, Kinsey scale, how we actually identify ourselves is something else.  How the world knows us—our public identities—may be at odds with how we privately identify ourselves (or are willing to share with a friend or a few others).

References:

http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/

On Masturbation: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html#masturbation

For more on Kinsey’s orientation (a “3” on his scale), see the Cinema Clip: http://artofmalemasturbation.tumblr.com/post/16471268453/cinema-clips-series-doing-path-breaking-research

Kinsey on Mastturbation

Kinsey and his associates see masturbation as a major sexual outlet, nocturnal emission (a “wet dream”) and intercourse the other two. We begin here a review of Kinsey’s pioneering work on human sexuality.

Chapter 14

MASTURBATION

Source of Photo: http://sublimecock.tumblr.com/post/16748503301/how-we-jack-529

DEFINITION

The term masturbation may be applied to any sort of self stimulation which brings erotic arousal.  Since … all tactile responses … are basic to sexual activity, there is considerable justice in extending the concept of masturbation to all situations in which there is tactile stimulation….  As … usually employed, the word “masturbation” refers to any self stimulation which is deliberate and designed to effect erotic arousal…. (p. 497)

INCIDENCES

·      Ultimately about 92 per cent of the total [male] population is involved in masturbation which leads to orgasm….  More individuals (96%) of the college level and 95 per cent of the high school group, are ultimately included, fewer (89%) of the males who never go beyond grade school…. (p. 499)

·      For two-thirds (68.4%) of the boys, self masturbation provides the first ejaculation. For most of the other boys, nocturnal emissions and heterosexual coitus provide the first ejaculation.  There is little variation in these data for different social levels. (p. 499)

·      There are some boys who masturbate quite specifically and with some frequency from the age of two or three…. Most boys are ten, eleven or twelve years old before they become involved…. (p. 501)

FREQUENCY

·      For most males, of every social level, masturbation provides the chief source of sexual outlet in early adolescence.  It is at that period that the activity reaches its highest frequencies…. In the present records [i.e., 1948—Ed.], the highest rating males were masturbating with average frequencies of 23 per week in early adolescence.  These maximum average frequencies drop to 15 per week by twenty years of age, to 6 per week by fifty years of age, and to once in two weeks at sixty years of age…. (p. 506)

·      For the active population, average frequencies of masturbation in early adolescence are nearly two and a half (2.4) per week, but a goodly number (17%) of the boys at that age may average four to seven times a week, or oftener….  From the early teens, the frequencies of masturbation drop steadily into old age. (pp. 506-07)

·      In all groups, masturbation after marriage occurs … [but] with reduced frequencies…. (p. 507)

SOURCE: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E.Martin, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders Co., 1948).

Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 

Gay or bi men or women in the military can now be free to be who they are.  It’s about time! 

      We’ll need to watch how the Defense Department implements repeal of DADT*: what times or places will gay or bi men and women in uniform have to relate to each other intimately. In this regard, will they be treated equally with their straight comrades?

*Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 

On this blog, we can all be who we are!

From February 14th and 15th, 2011 Postings:

Valentine’s Day: Straight, Bi and Gay Couples 

We celebrate in this blog the special relationships we all have or want to establish, whether straight, bi or gay.  We masturbate not only when we are alone, but sometimes with our partners.  Maybe we give or get a helping hand every now and then….

Kissing Your Guy 

… Some of us gay and bi guys fantasize kissing the man we love (others of us actually get to do it)….