Are gay men really given over to bizarre sexual practices?

[Politruk]

I men, more bizarre than homosexuality itself.

There is a stereotype -- which never seems to be applied to lesbians -- that if you're gay, then you MUST be into BDSM, or into kink far weirder.

Does this have any basis in fact?

For instance, if horror writer Clive Barker were straight, would there perhaps not be quite so much body horror in his fiction?

 

[Politruk]

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[Rainblow]

I have a feeling some gay men are into kinks, some are vanilla and some are somewhere in between You know, just like everyone else.

 

[Politruk]

Put it this way: Could Pier Paolo Pasoilini have made Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom if he had been straight?