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Study: One Third
of Male College Cheerleaders Had Gay Sex

Study: One Third
of Male College Cheerleaders Had Gay Sex

ScienceDaily.com reports that in a study of male college cheerleaders who had played football in high school, more than one third of the subjects said they have had sexual relations with other men.

ScienceDaily.com reports that in a study of male college cheerleaders who had played football in high school, more than one third of the subjects said they have had sexual relations with other men. Nineteen out of 47 subjects said they had engaged in sexual acts with other men, ranging from kissing to mutual masturbation and oral sex.

Sociologist Eric Anderson, who conducted the study, said the results show society's increasing acceptance of gays. He also said that many of the sexual acts were viewed by participants as different forms of hazing and team bonding.

"The evidence supports my assertion that homophobia is on the rapid decline among male team-sport athletes in North America at all levels of play," he writes in his study "Being Masculine Is Not About Whom You Sleep With: Heterosexual Athletes Contesting Masculinity and the One-Time Rule of Homosexuality." It will be published in the journal Sex Roles in January, according to ScienceDaily.com.

"My informants do not feel that their same-sex sex jeopardizes their socially perceived heterosexual identities, at least within the cheerleading culture," Anderson said. "In other words, having gay sex does not automatically make them gay in masculine peer culture." (The Advocate)

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