The future of gay sex | Dazed

Against a resurgent anti-LGBTQ+ movement and the homophobic backlash inspired by monkeypox, it’s time for gay men to reject respectability and reclaim a politics of sexual freedom

This article is part of our Future of Sex season – a series of features investigating the future of sex, relationships, dating, sex work and sex worker rights; tech; taboos; and the next socio-political sexual frontiers. When gay sex is discussed today, it’s almost always in negative terms. ‘Hook-up culture’ is pathologised as a consequence of childhood trauma and low self-esteem; the prevalence of non-monogamy points to our outsize libido and inability to commit; and when evidence suggests that Grindr can be bad for our mental health, we tend to blame this on the sex it facilitates, rather th

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