# Is Gay Sex Beautiful? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738 "2017-04-04T16:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/1 "2017-04-04T16:22:48Z")
(This is my first poll, well, ever. So please bear with me, if I don’t do it right at first:).) I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think gay sex is beautiful. It is as close as two men can get together. That’s my view of it, at least. Anyways, I have been on these boards for some time now. And I have noticed, the vast majority of you are decidedly not homophobic, whatever other political affiliation you may have. So I have to ask you: **Do you think gay sex is beautiful?** Or do you perhaps not feel gay sex is beautiful? As I said, this is not for the homophobes. We know you reasons. I actually would be interested in hearing why someone who supports gay rights, would not think it is beautiful. So please explain your answers, if you feel you can. (As I said, my first poll. So hopefully I won’t mess it up in any way.) In any event, thank you all who reply (and respond):). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/2 "2017-04-04T16:26:36Z")
All sex between two equals is(or can be) beautiful…as long as no mirrors are involved. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/3 "2017-04-04T16:30:37Z")
Sex is pretty gross really. Two naked bodies, slapping together, making all sorts of offensive noises as air gets pushed in and (inevitably) makes it way back out! ---
**Author:** ![Navy\_draftee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ec9cab/32.png) [@Navy\_draftee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navy_draftee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/4 "2017-04-04T16:31:07Z")
* * * > [@Jim\_B](#): > > (This is my first poll, well, ever. So please bear with me, if I don’t do it right at first:).) > > I don’t know about the rest of you, but I think gay sex is beautiful. It is as close as two men can get together. That’s my view of it, at least. > > Anyways, I have been on these boards for some time now. And I have noticed, the vast majority of you are decidedly not homophobic, whatever other political affiliation you may have. > > So I have to ask you: **Do you think gay sex is beautiful?** Or do you perhaps not feel gay sex is beautiful? As I said, this is not for the homophobes. We know you reasons. I actually would be interested in hearing why someone who supports gay rights, would not think it is beautiful. So please explain your answers, if you feel you can. > > (As I said, my first poll. So hopefully I won’t mess it up in any way.) > > In any event, thank you all who reply (and respond):). **BARF** ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/5 "2017-04-04T16:31:57Z")
It’s a loving, intimate act between two people giving themselves to one another in mutual pleasure. But I wouldn’t want to watch it. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/6 "2017-04-04T16:33:03Z")
I think sex _is_ beautiful, in the experiencing. The actual visual, no, not beautiful. Straight or gay. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/7 "2017-04-04T16:34:20Z")
> [@Navy\_draftee](#): > > * * * > > **BARF** Care to elaborate? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/8 "2017-04-04T16:37:16Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Sex is pretty gross really. Two naked bodies, slapping together, making all sorts of offensive noises as air gets pushed in and (inevitably) makes it way back out! Agreed. Sex, gay or straight, is pretty gross. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/9 "2017-04-04T16:43:07Z")
Other people having sex is not “beautiful” – but it may be appealing to view (for other reasons) it if it inspires me to desire to be a participant. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/10 "2017-04-04T16:43:52Z")
All _real_ sex is gross from an in-person third-person perspective. Any kind of sex can be made to _look_ beautiful by an artist, like in a photograph or a film or a painting or a drawing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/11 "2017-04-04T16:45:20Z")
Yes, sex is pretty ugly for 99.9 % of the population. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/12 "2017-04-04T16:49:37Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I think sex _is_ beautiful, in the experiencing. The actual visual, no, not beautiful. > > Straight or gay. That about sums it up for me. Pretty much like childbirth. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/13 "2017-04-04T16:52:24Z")
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield ---
**Author:** ![Navy\_draftee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ec9cab/32.png) [@Navy\_draftee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Navy_draftee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/14 "2017-04-04T17:01:05Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Care to elaborate? enough said ! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/15 "2017-04-04T17:01:42Z")
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? I have no quarrel with anyone else who finds it beautiful, but I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/16 "2017-04-04T17:03:07Z")
Wrong question. I think you meant to ask whether gay sex is more or less or just as beautiful as straight sex. It’s an odd question anyway. Outside of art, nobody’s sex is supposed to be beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/17 "2017-04-04T17:03:47Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Sex is pretty gross really. Two naked bodies, slapping together, making all sorts of offensive noises as air gets pushed in and (inevitably) makes it way back out! This. The feelings lovers have for each other are beautiful, and I’m sure it feels beautiful to the participants in the moment, but the visuals, not so much. It’s the difference between catching a whiff of exquisite perfume and finding out what it’s really made of. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/18 "2017-04-04T17:07:26Z")
All beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I am sure that there are many (including, I presume, most gay men) to whom gay sex is beautiful, but I’m not one of them. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/19 "2017-04-04T17:11:15Z")
I’m all for gay rights but I’m heterosexual myself and don’t find men sexually attractive. As such, watching two men have sex holds little interest for me and certainly no perceived “beauty”. That’s not a judgment call – it just ain’t my thing. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/20 "2017-04-04T18:03:01Z")
We have a whole set of built-in biological instincts to avoid other people’s biological fluids and orifices. And then we have _another_ even stronger set of instincts to override the first set when sex is involved. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738.md?page=2)