Why is drug usage so high amongst Homosexuals?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independen...ong-gays-8165971.html

/// coping mechanism in the face of homophobia or just hectic partying? ///

[Kerosene]

Who knows - guilt?

[Baldric]

Gotta cope with it somehow!

[237SJ]

Hectic partying.

[sandyRoe]

Bit of both?

[sp1814]

kerosene

Guilt?

For what?

[sp1814]

Baldric

Gotta cope with what, specifically?

[Kerosene]

sp,

'Guilt' at indulging in unnatural sex. That's my opinion of one man inserting his penis into another's bum, or one woman inserting her fingers - or whatever - into another's vagina.

Just my honest opinion?

[sir.prize]

AOG - any idea why Kero introduced the word 'guilt' to this thread?

[Baldric]

Taking comments from some of your answers recently,
"I saw it a Gay Magazine"
"My taste in men"
I would imagine you have a good idea!

[daffy654]

Kerosene, not all gay men have penetrative sex with each other. There are other ways to show affection and lust you know.

[McMouse]

Researchers looked at 4,000 people over 2 years.........doesn't seem like an in depth survey. I'm sure if you questioned 4,000 young men living on inner city estates you'd find few gays but and enourmous number of drug users.

[daffy654]

I think the results of this survey may be skewed by the demographic. Picking purely students at university as your only participants is stupid for this type of survey.

[sp1814]

AOG

There may be another explanation - generally speaking, the LGBT community have a greater amount of disposable income, plus more time to socialise (because as a percentage, fewer gay couples have kids with the attendant huge expense in terms of time and money that having kids demand).

In addition to this, gay men tend to go clubbing for longer than their straight counterparts and when you add in extra spending power...).

As to the idea that drug-taking can somehow be a coping mechanism to deal with homophobia...not too sure about that.

I think it might have more to do with going out on a Saturday and enjoying 'party drugs'.

I say that because interestingly, the least sociable drug in the study is heroin...and heroin is the very opposite of a party drug.

[sp1814]

kerosene

I think you might be surprised at how gay men see themselves. Perhaps if you surveyed 100 gay men fifty years ago, there would be a much higher degree of 'guilt' amongst gay men, because of the illegality thing.

However, now the scene is a lot more different.

Of course, there are gay men and lesbians, who for whatever reason, have a degree of self-hate or guilt - but I am sure this is a minority.

The majority of same sex partners are besides themselves with gratitude because they're with someone who knows exactly what they want!

Win-win.

[seadogg]

Did the survey specify any differences between men and women? My daughter is in a lesbian relationship and neither she, her partner, nor her friends feel the need for drugs and seem to lead conventional lives.

Maybe its different in the big cities.

[sp1814]

kerosene

Just thought - do straight men feel guilty for indulging in anything other than vaginal intercourse?

You know - the whole gamut of 'extra-curricular' stuff a man and woman can get up to?

[Kerosene]

"Not all gay men have penatrative sex.."

Well, I bow to your seemingly obvious knowledge of that, daffy. However, your observation is wide of the mark in the context of my remarks which in no way made such an accusation regarding "all" homosexual males. It's those individuals who DO to whom my comments are attributed.

sp,

"..do straight men feel guilty.." etc etc

Are you making the assumption that I, as a heterosexual male, take part in anything but vaginal sex? That's a bit personal, ain't it? Especially when we hardly know each other! My mummy warned me about your 'type', ducky!

[sp1814]

kerosene

In what way am I assuming you're a heterosexual male?

I don't even know if you're male or female.

I asked your opinion about heterosexual men, because you gave a theory about why gay men feel guilt about having penetrative sex.

[Baldric]

Just remembered this;

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1172804.html

[sir.prize]

sp1814 - it is a lost cause trying to get sensible answers from high and mighty Kero. He is just a manipulator and thrives purely on baiting and controversial posts. If one has the mind to waste an hour - or two, they would determine the man is off the rails by reading his historical threads.