Stud, Great question and I am just guessing and said Gay Men !!
Thanks!
I think I read originally it was a thing that took off with gay men in San Francisco in the 70s, but that now they're as popular with straight guys too, so I really can't answer the question myself and just wondered!
Forgot to add, so if you see a man with a PA, do you tend to assume he is gay ?
Forgot to add, so if you see a man with a PA, do you tend to assume he is gay ?
Well if I am seeing him and his prince albert, he probably is undressed getting ready to do something gay with me. lol
Of course I could be lurking at the gym or some glory hole but then that's kind of gay also. lol
Just wondering, do you think PA piercings are more popular with gay or straight men, or no difference??
I used to know a doctor with a PA. He would shower and walk around naked at the gym. He was married but I always suspected he was bi. Anyway, the thing that amazed me was the number of straight guys that would ask him about the PA. He loved to talk about it so he never seemed to mind.
Thanks for the replies. Was that right about PAs becoming popular mainly through the gay commmunity in 1970s SF?
When the war was over (WWII), many of the men returning home got into biker culture, which had always maintained some of the edgier body mods, tattoos, piercings, etc. Many of those men were gay, and from this culture, the leatherman and the BDSM community,
That's interesting to know. I came out and straight into the leather culture in Sydney. It was the dominate culture and the most exciting for me and yeah I met men with piercings in their cocks, nipples, ball sac etc... I loved that time
Isn't this exactly what @Nudistpig said a few post up?I think the question is too fuzzy to properly answer.
Are we talking about a group of, say, 100 random men? Or two equal groups of men, one group gay, the other straight? Because the answer to each of those two set ups us going to be considerably different.
Allow me to illustrate.
Scenario one: 100 random men.
Out of that 100 men, let's say that 10% are gay, leaving 90 straight.
(For our purposes here, we'll need to bypass the bi guys. Sorry. Also 10% gay is very likely NOT an accurate ratio.)
Scenario two: 100 straight men compared to 100 gay men.
Now let's say that 30% of gay guys and 20% of straights have PAs giving the gay guys a 10% advantage.
I've no clue if this is accurate but it serves to illustrate the point.
Scenario one means that of the 10 gay guys, 3 have PAs. But 18 of the 90 straight guys have PAs which is considerably more than the gays have, even though the gay guys' % of PA owners is bigger than the straight guys'.
But in scenario two, 100 guys in each group means that 30 gay guys have PAs vs 20 of the straight guys do.
Now my guess is that yes, more gay guys, out of the total gay guys, have PAs than straight guys out of the total straight guys do. And I'd suggest that this may simply be because gay guys are used to not being "normal" and are less likely to see PAs as "weird". So one-to one, yes, I'd expect gays to have more PAs. But in overall population, the few straights daring enough to go that route still outnumber the pierced gays.