It as ‘strictly physical’ nonetheless, a quarter of men not in relationships described Whereas 62% of those with regular partners but not in a relationship descried Over eighty per cent of men in relationshipsĭescribed their partnership with words such as ‘committed’, ‘companions’ and ‘romantic’, Relationship had one or multiple partners. However the length of the relationship had no bearing on whether men in that Of relationships were more than 10 years old and over 64% over three years old. Through an app, but even in older men, online was by far the most common way ofĬonsidered themselves in a relationship had had longer relationships, onĪverage, than men who had regular partners but were not in a relationship: 24%
More younger than older men had met online or Only 14% of men in a relationship had met at a gay venue andġ6% through friends or family. Or through a phone app 50% of men who said they were in a relationship had met their partner online or through an app and 72% of men who said they had regular partners but were not in a relationship. The majority of men had met partners online Untested men were the most likely to say they only had one regular partner –īut were also less likely to say they were in a committed relationship. Multiple partners than one partner, but were also more likely to be in a relationship: HIV-positive men were more likely to have Influenced by heterosexual behaviour norms whereas older men take a more TheĪuthors comment that this may be partly because young men are more likely to be Partners, but also more likely to consider they were in a relationship. Conversely, men aged over 36 were more likely to have multiple Likely to have one regular partner rather than multiple partners, but were less likely to consider themselves ‘in a The men” compared with 38% with one regular partner. Regular partners said that if they were dating, “we should stop having sex with Not last’ but interestingly, men who had no regular partners actually had higherĮxpectations of monogamy should they have a relationship 47% of men with no No regular partners were much more likely to agree that gay relationships ‘do Men who said they were not in a relationship and men who had
Words they would use to describe their relationships, those in emotionally-committed relationships
Longstanding, but less emotionally-committed relationships. Particular, they have tended to classify partnerships as either ‘primary’ or ‘casual’,īut this misses out a large proportion of men who had regular and sometimes Surveys have failed to capture the complexity of gay men’s relationships. The authors of the ‘Monopoly’ study comment that previous Regular partner did not see themselves as being in a relationship. Thing: a large proportion of men describing themselves as ‘being in a relationship’Īlso had partners outside the relationship, and a lot of men with only one Furthermore it found that these categories were not at all the same Of gay men who are in emotionally committed relationships, and in monogamous A large survey conducted through gay dating sites and Facebook inĪustralia has found that previous surveys may have overestimated the proportion