Ryan-wrote in their accompanying New York Times opinion piece that they had asked 784 college students to rate their sexual orientation on a 10-point scale and then told them to sort “images and words indicative of hetero- and homosexuality” into categories.
Two authors on the study-psychologists Richard M. (As GQ sarcastically put it in response to the Goodman news: “Anti-Gay Ohio Republican Resigns After, Surprise, Having Sex with a Man in the State Capitol.”)Ī 2012 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology generated a fair number of headlines that year-including The New York Times’ “Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay”-for suggesting that some self-avowed straight people who showed signs of same-sex desire were more likely to hold discriminatory attitudes. The LGBT community will never tire of bringing up the long history of Republican gay sex scandals every time new-and increasingly unsurprising-allegations emerge, precisely because they seem to be so predictable in hindsight. Republican.”Īs more information about their alleged misdeeds emerges-Goodman now stands accused of fondling an 18-year-old man at a conservative event, and of pursuing several young gay men-there is a certain grim catharsis in seeing such hypocrisy exposed. More strident was Goodman who, as the Columbus Dispatch reported, “consistently touted his faith and conservative values,” with a Twitter bio that read: “Christian. Shortey has reportedly decided this week to plead guilty to a child sex trafficking charge.īoth Goodman and Shortey are married men who were clear political opponents of the LGBT community while in office.Īfter Shortey was arrested, the Associated Press noted that he “routinely” voted for anti-LGBT bills, quoting the director of the LGBT advocacy organization Freedom Oklahoma who said, “He was never vitriolic about it, but he would make the bad votes.” Ralph Shortey resigned after being hit with child prostitution charges for allegedly soliciting sex from a 17-year-old boy. Here are 70 sex memes that capture the universal experience of gettin' it on.In March, former Oklahoma state Sen. For some reason, a lot of them involve SpongeBob SquarePants, which is either brilliant, or horrifying or a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. Whether it’s just you and Pornhub for the night, or you have finally taken the perfect nude and want to share it with the world, these pearls of wisdom (or should that be pearl necklaces of wisdom?) will speak to your soul. Why bother composing a lengthy play-by-play of last night’s adventures in the group chat when you can just copy-and-paste a meme and say “omg it me”?īelow you’ll find an expertly curated collection of insight and observations from some of the dirtiest minds on Twitter and Instagram which sum up exactly how it feels to be horny. But the internet says it all better, and more succinctly, and frankly, a damn sight funnier.
There are countless sexy books, movies, TV shows, and stand-up specials out there dedicated to the intricacies, etiquette and expectations of getting laid. Sometimes, all you can do is laugh about it. But don't worry the awkwardness is part of being a human who enjoys sex.
While it would be nice for all our hookups to be set to romantic orchestral scores and culminate in simultaneous orgasms for all parties, the reality is that sex is often awkward, messy, and embarrassing (see: these people who injured themselves doing the deed). There's the sex that we see in movies.and then there's the sex that happens in real life.