# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/21 "2017-04-04T18:08:46Z")
This OP consistently produces some, um, interesting threads. 🙂 ---
**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, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/22 "2017-04-04T18:12:26Z")
No, I don’t think watching one man trying to give another a colonoscopy “beautiful” Strange that ANYONE would ! ---
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/23 "2017-04-04T18:14:05Z")
> [@Navy\_draftee](#): > > No, I don’t think watching one man trying to give another a colonoscopy “beautiful” > > Strange that ANYONE would ! Yeah…that’s what I thought you meant. Thanks for the confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/24 "2017-04-04T18:26:02Z")
Not only beautiful (if the dudes in question are), but hot as hell. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/25 "2017-04-04T18:28:51Z")
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/26 "2017-04-04T18:29:26Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I think sex _is_ beautiful, in the experiencing. The actual visual, no, not beautiful. > > Straight or gay. There’s a multi-billion dollar industry that suggests otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/27 "2017-04-04T18:48:34Z")
I’m with those who say observing sex isn’t necessarily “beautiful.” It can be erotic, titillating, disgusting, funny, interesting, but doesn’t strike me as observably “beautiful.” I might consider the people involved to be “beautiful”-- male or female. But to see two people making love, I’d use any one of those adjectives above before I used “beautiful.” Now the actual \*experience \*of sex can be a beautiful thing. Were I one to enjoy the amorous affections of another man, then yes, I would find gay sex to be beautiful. As I am sexually wired, no. ---
**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, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/28 "2017-04-04T18:52:40Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > There’s a multi-billion dollar industry that suggests otherwise. That industry is quite adept at faking what sex is like in order to make it look appealing and exciting on camera. ---
**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, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/29 "2017-04-04T18:53:57Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > There’s a multi-billion dollar industry that suggests otherwise. If we all had porn-star bodies and dimensions, then yeah, we’d all make beautiful sex. When my husband is having sex by himself, it’s beautiful. When I’m added to the equation, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/30 "2017-04-04T19:14:44Z")
It can be beautiful or it can be disturbingly awful. A lot like other renditions of sex, in other words. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/31 "2017-04-04T19:17:05Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > There’s a multi-billion dollar industry that suggests otherwise. I’d argue that even very pretty people having unrealistically neat and tidy sex isn’t usually _beautiful_ on film. Arousing, maybe - but not aesthetically beautiful. At least to my eyes. I think artistic still photography can sometimes capture aesthetic beauty in that moment, but I don’t think film/video has it so easy. But it doesn’t have to be beautiful - arousal sells. Sex is a lot of sweating, grunting and bodily fluids. There is nothing wrong with that and it can be quite stimulating to watch for some of us. But beautiful? Nah. Unless, as I suspect the OP meant, we’re talking about spiritual beauty. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/32 "2017-04-04T19:21:09Z")
Kinda depends on the people involved, and which sex act they are preforming. Unattractive (especially if they are, literally, ugly) people having sex is unlikely to be seen as beautiful. It’s hard to imagine wanting to watch two hairy, overweight guys going at it. Two slender, well endowed women pleasing each other… not so bad!! ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/33 "2017-04-04T19:26:09Z")
> [@Tranquilis](#): > > Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. > ~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield > [@](#): > > Sex is a very narrow avenue. You only have so many holes and parts, and eventually, you run out of things to do. Doug Stanhope ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/34 "2017-04-04T19:49:09Z")
> [@Navy\_draftee](#): > > No, I don’t think watching one man trying to give another a colonoscopy “beautiful” > > Strange that ANYONE would ! How do you feel about watching a man give a woman a gynecological exam? I’m pretty much of a prude, so I don’t like watching anything past what is shown on network TV or in R-rated movies. That said, I equally enjoy the romance of lovemaking scenes between two men, two women, or a man and a woman. There are many filmed scenes of two men together, some of them very strongly implying sex, that I find beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/35 "2017-04-04T19:57:10Z")
**Navy draftee** , you are receiving this warning for Being a Jerk, which is our main board rule. You will need to find a way to express yourself and your opinions without being demeaning to groups of people. > [@Navy\_draftee](#): > > No, I don’t think watching one man trying to give another a colonoscopy “beautiful” > > Strange that ANYONE would ! ---
**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, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/36 "2017-04-04T19:59:15Z")
I can see the beauty in watching two or more people trying to pleasure each other, as opposed to just trying to pleasure themselves. ---
**Author:** ![dirty\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@dirty\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirty_hippie)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/37 "2017-04-04T20:18:16Z")
Whether homosexual or heterosexual, I find licking someone’s anus to be disgusting. Sent from my C6916 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/38 "2017-04-04T20:26:35Z")
When I see Botticelli’s _Venus_, I think, “That’s a really hot babe. I want to nail her.” When I see Michaelangelo’s _David_, I think, “Egad. I hope I don’t look that silly when I’m naked.” ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/39 "2017-04-04T20:28:10Z")
> [@dirty\_hippie](#): > > Whether homosexual or heterosexual, I find licking someone’s anus to be disgusting. > > Sent from my C6916 using Tapatalk Sure, but how do you feel about someone licking _your_ anus? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738/40 "2017-04-04T20:33:52Z")
I don’t find anyone’s sex beautiful, really. Not even my own. I didn’t vote in the poll because I don’t want to make it seem like I don’t find gay sex beautiful based on the fact that it’s gay. Love and passion are pretty beautiful, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-gay-sex-beautiful/783738.md?page=3)