Please help define "1% gay"?

[jason_els]

The 1% thing started on this site as a way for the straight members to offer their support/demonstrate lack of homophobia to the gay members. It's simply a sign of support and solidarity. LPSG was recognized early on as a unique place where gay and straight members existed in an unusual harmony. We may fight about a lot of things but almost never is there any gay vs. straight bullshit.

Pecker or RoysToy might be able to remember just when and where it started. I've forgotten.

 

[D_Andreas Sukov]

what? 1% guys get these offers? im 10% and get squat! i think o might get some more now though

 

[bigbull29]

If you're male and enjoy being male, you have to have at least some attraction to you maleness (ideal-looking penises, in general). That doesn't necessarily mean that all straight men want to go out and suck big dicks. But just look how excited so many heterosexual men get over big dicks while watching porn (again, not that they all secretly want to play with one, but they sure do like to seem them).

Please don't feed me that silliness that men are just "props" in porn straight men. If that were the case, lesbian porn would reign among all other genres. Yes it's a fact that most men want to see DICK --particularly big, beautiful ones (other men's body parts are probably a bit less important for very heterosexual men, though).

 

[houtx48]

100% str8's on a gay dick website?................that's the story and i'm sticking to it.

 

[jetjok9]

Out here in good ol' Berkeley, we have another way to quantify this stuff. Gay, Gold Gay, and Platinum Gay. Gay means "most" of the time. Gold gay means maybe kissed & fondled a gal but no intercourse. Platinum gay means never kissed, fondled or f**ked a gal. 1% or 99% gay? Who knows: I'm Platinum. Don't think ol' Sequioa here would tolerate a close encounter of a pussy kind.

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

The 1% thing started on this site as a way for the straight members to offer their support/demonstrate lack of homophobia to the gay members. It's simply a sign of support and solidarity. LPSG was recognized early on as a unique place where gay and straight members existed in an unusual harmony. We may fight about a lot of things but almost never is there any gay vs. straight bullshit.

Pecker or RoysToy might be able to remember just when and where it started. I've forgotten.

Well whatever the original purpose of the 1%, and I think indicating that you're 1% gay is an extremely imperfect expression of solidarity btw :biggrin1:, I think the uses of percentages has become a lot more complicated.

I think the 1% is perhaps the most difficult to define because there seem to be two basic kinds of use of it.

There seem to be those who use 1% straight or gay to indicate a reality, perhaps something they admit to having done in the past or something they admit the possibility of doing some day. Or perhaps, things they have thought about doing or can see themselves thinking about doing.

Then there seem to be those who use the 1% to indicate how they wish people to see them, regardless of reality ( indeed I think this is how 100% is used quite often also), I suppose this would include the show of solidarity your talking about Jason.


The problem is that these uses of this percentage-language are not mutually intelligible, those who use them to indicate reality presume (rightly or wrongly ) that others use them in this way and Vice Versa.

This presumably is the origin of the need to define 1% to create a mutually recongnisable universal, a base point. It's interesting that we alight on 1% straight as being so tricky to define.

Unfortunately sexuality isn't like maths, it has no propensity to be used as a universal language because it is an entirely subjective experience. I suggest we leave this strange sexual glyphics alone and accept that just as some ancient alphabets may never be decoded that this particular one is untranslatable.

 

[D_Otis_Criblecoblis]

I think the 1% gay means at least for me, that I can admire a guy's BIG COCK. Maybe even be envious of it. If you see a good looking lady or guy walking down the street and they are good looking does that necessary mean you want to have sex with both? No you just admire beauty. That what 1% gay forme means. You can admire a big cock but still love the titties.....

 

[rubbernuts]

Thanks everyone for all the interesting viewpoints.

 

[wontonhartle]

May have been said before, but I'd say willingness to listen or look and maybe liking it a small bit. It's about not being closed off to the idea of it?

 

[finsuptx]

You can wake up and fix breakfast every morning, and no one is going to call you a Chef. Suck ONE cock at Mardi Gras... and ur forever labelled a cocksucker.

 

[Countryguy63]

You can wake up and fix breakfast every morning, and no one is going to call you a Chef. Suck ONE cock at Mardi Gras... and ur forever labelled a cocksucker.

gosh dang those labels :biggrin1:

 

[Torque8]

IMHO, the guys who say they are 99% straight are uusally more straight than the guys who claim to be 100% straight. Just for the simple fact that the 100% guys seem to be trying too hard. The guys who say 99% straight probably are 100% straight but just have the brains and balls to admit that we all are bisexual to some degree.

EXCEPTION: Some hot guys on here have had 99% straight and 1% gay and they were deluged with PM's saying "Let me help you with that 1%" so they took it back to 100% straight. I think those guys are as masculine and secure as the guys who say 99% straight.

I originally said 1% as I've never sucked another guys cock nor ever had anything up my ass much less bottomed for anyone. Got all kinds of flack for being into muscle worship and slut play with a couple of gym buds so I changed it to 10% which isn't on the mark either.

 

[rob_just_rob]

It means whatever you want it to mean. There will never be consensus.

 

[_avg_]

Okay, to clarify... My original question was simply seeking criteria to help one decide between "99% Straight, 1% Gay" and "100% Straight" when setting up a profile on this site. So maybe sexual attraction is a decider, maybe not.

Well, what accounts for orientation if not the level of sexual attraction? The number of musicals you've attended or how many pink shirts are in your wardrobe? I never understood why anybody would think that 'gayness' comes from anything but an attraction to the same sex...

Really, that's all there is to it: the 100%ers are attracted to only one sex; the rest have some attraction to both.

And to deny the legitimacy of the 100%ers is just as insulting and bigoted as any homophobic rant...

 

[bigbull29]

gosh dang those labels :biggrin1:

I don't like them, either, buddy. Sometimes I want lesbian porn, sometimes I want big dick porn, sometimes I want to worship my own big peter, sometimes I fantasize about being a big-dick construction worker nailing a big-titted broad on the site...and yes, I have man-on-man fantasies, too (2 "male" construction workers kissing and fucking each either...who would ever think?). I just love what I love at that moment!!!!

As Rob said, there will never be a consensus on what 1% gay means. I'm not sure human sexuality cannot be put expressed in percentages anyways.

 

[cdarro]

The amount of opinion masquerading as fact in this (and other threads on this forum) is simply breathtaking.

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

The amount of opinion masquerading as fact in this (and other threads on this forum) is simply breathtaking.

And this post is helpful how ?

 

[cdarro]

And this post is helpful how ?

Just an observation. Didn't realize all posts were required to be "helpful".

 

[BigLittleMan]

ok, let me help you out here...

0% - what guy?

1% - that guy's good-looking

10% - big dick? i'll take a peek

20% - big dick, that's nice

30% - wow, i'm getting a little chub here

40% - don't want to waste this hardon, we might as well jerk off

50% - your hand looks tired, let me help you with that

60% - can i use your hard dick to practice my banana eating skills?

70% - did you say you're a doctor? i could really use a prostate exam...

80% - it's late. stay here and i'll make you some eggs in the morning

90% - have you met my "roommate" mark?

100% - gay marriage? i do!

 

[faceless]

I think that the problem here comes from the assumption that sexual orientation can be represented on a scale, giving it a numerical form, the pH scale for acids and bases is a relevant example here.

Perhaps a categorical representation would be more applicable. The way I see it, straight, gay, and bi are absolute terms. There are no degrees of straightness, so one cannot be said to be more straight that any other person. With this thinking, one's category is decided by what he or she thinks is correct, not by other factors. This is a more robust system, it has fewer problems, but it does not give you the same amount of information.

This is just me being a maths geek though, I don't mean to take anything ways from the percentage system, I thought it was quite interesting when I signed up, but it does have that inherent flaw which can't really be avoided.

My main point is that the value that you take on the scale will mean whatever you want it to mean, its a bit like the amps that go to 11 from Spinal Tap.