A Huffington Post survey of 4,000 gay men revealed that, despite the efforts of the gay political power-pushers to remake the homosexual image as literally dying for monogamy, domesticity, and marriage, gay men are still extremely sexually promiscuous. The most telling findings: 83% of those surveyed have sent an electronic picture of their genitals; 69% of those who use gay apps are looking for a hook-up; and 30% do not need to see a face-pic before hooking-up.
What this survey reveals is that gay men, in particular, are highly concentrated on sex and arranging and being involved in a series of, oftentimes anonymous or certainly fleeting, sexual encounters. Another interesting question from the survey showed that 59% of gay men ask about penis size on dating apps. Again, this represents the completely physical-fixated world that gay men live in; a mentality which perceives sexual exploration as a means to self-expression; with the phallus as the ultimate symbol of attaining masculine perfection. Yet, this hook-up culture, once firmly stationed in the bathhouses and sex-clubs, as was still the case for my generation, tragically gave rise to the horror of AIDS. Although fewer men are dying, the infection rate in the gale male population remains high: “Gay and bisexual men make up about 2% of the overall population, but account for approximately two-thirds of all new HIV infections each year. Data included in CDC’s 2013 National HIV Prevention Progress Report show that there was a 12% increase in new infections among gay and bisexual men overall between 2008 and 2010, and a 22% increase among young gay and bisexual men aged 13-24.”