With many other options available for gay men to meet each other, Gershen Kaufman, a professor emeritus of psychology at Michigan State University and author of the book 'Coming Out of Shame,' said public cruising is practiced mainly by deeply closeted men. Gay Kisses Involve Assertiveness Lean your body into him and frame your thumb and index finger gently around his jaw. Researchers found that in the majority of the men, a rise in this enzyme was not only detected when looking at same-sex couples kissing, but that it was greater than when looking at the “disgusting” images.
“It is difficult to specifically state what this means,” study author Karen L. “It could mean that participants found the images of male same-sex couples kissing to be equally disgusting as the disgusting images.
It could mean that they had an anxiety response to the male couples kissing and a disgust response to the disgusting images, but that physiologically, we could not tell the difference between these two emotions.”īlair went on to explain that the physiological responses didn’t necessarily align with the participants’ expressed sexual prejudices, meaning the enzyme rise was apparent with both men who said they had no prejudice toward LGBT people and those who said they did.