The majority of men had met partners online Untested men were the most likely to say they only had one regular partner –īut were also less likely to say they were in a committed relationship. Multiple partners than one partner, but were also more likely to be in a relationship: HIV-positive men were more likely to have Influenced by heterosexual behaviour norms whereas older men take a more TheĪuthors comment that this may be partly because young men are more likely to be Partners, but also more likely to consider they were in a relationship. Conversely, men aged over 36 were more likely to have multiple Likely to have one regular partner rather than multiple partners, but were less likely to consider themselves ‘in a The men” compared with 38% with one regular partner. Regular partners said that if they were dating, “we should stop having sex with Not last’ but interestingly, men who had no regular partners actually had higherĮxpectations of monogamy should they have a relationship 47% of men with no No regular partners were much more likely to agree that gay relationships ‘do Men who said they were not in a relationship and men who had 40% had casual sex – but of these, overĪ third had a boyfriend and another third had more regular 'fuckbuddies'.The men said they had a ‘boyfriend’ – but just under half of them also had To illustrate the complexity of the findings fully: Of the whole sample, 12% had not had sex in the last yearĪnd 36% had had it with just one partner, but 38% had had eight or more Seventy per cent described themselves as having a regular partner.īut only a minority – 44% – said they had just one regular partner the otherĢ6% said they had two or more regular partners (though over half of these said ‘one Three-quarters had ever tested for HIV and half in the last year. In total, 4215 participants took the survey: their averageĪge was 37, 47% were graduates, 81% described themselves as gay and 16%īisexual (6% had a regular female partner), and 5% said they had HIV. Physical relationships the overwhelmingly most popular choice was ‘fuckbuddy’. Used terms like ‘partner’ and ‘boyfriend’, but for those in more purely Words they would use to describe their relationships, those in emotionally-committed relationships
Longstanding, but less emotionally-committed relationships.
Particular, they have tended to classify partnerships as either ‘primary’ or ‘casual’,īut this misses out a large proportion of men who had regular and sometimes Surveys have failed to capture the complexity of gay men’s relationships. The authors of the ‘Monopoly’ study comment that previous Regular partner did not see themselves as being in a relationship. Thing: a large proportion of men describing themselves as ‘being in a relationship’Īlso had partners outside the relationship, and a lot of men with only one Furthermore it found that these categories were not at all the same
Of gay men who are in emotionally committed relationships, and in monogamous A large survey conducted through gay dating sites and Facebook inĪustralia has found that previous surveys may have overestimated the proportion