@Mellow Malevolent
@Peaches Demure
Regarding the "do gay men have anal sex as a requirement" question, I think it's important to remember that "identified as gay" is a big factor here. If you're committed enough to the bit to identify as gay for the purposes of a study, you're much more likely to be taking it up the ass.
The kind of homosexual who is insecure about having "real sex" is going to be motivated to have anal sex, and that same kind of guy is likely to identify strongly with the "gay identity". I've gone into more detail on this subject
here in the woman hate thread (I don't hate women, just wanted to ask the fellas for their thoughts on some things).
This kind of gay gets defensive when you question why anal is the big thing. After all, don't women have buttholes too? Wouldn't the gayest form of sex be the one with only the man parts? Anal sex havers will not answer these questions, and instead will sputter impotently and homosexually while they accuse you of being a "virgin" (when, ironically, they're doing what some women do to "preserve" their virginity). I have a hunch that some guy like Crowley started it; he called it the "eye of Horus" and had occult dudes sodomize him to get "magical powers".
A lot of guys like the idea of anal sex in the abstract, but wouldn't do it IRL. I've known people like this who were e-boyfriends for the better part of a decade before shacking up and realizing that neither of them was a furry rabbit or wolf-man, and that
fantasy porn anatomy doesn't apply to the real world (they're still very close housemates). I think it's why pornographic material drawn by gay men who've actually committed sodomy IRL has a much darker tone to it. As I've said
here: non-reproductive sexuality is only ever materially "potent" in a negative sense, as in the case of bug-chasing. Anal especially, in real life, appears to be just fundamentally aesthetically horrible. You have to
develop a taste for the death-feeling behind it; it is very clearly not a sexual organ.
As far as whether there's "different kinds of gays", the answer is definitely yes. There's absolutely a kind of guy who has sex with men purely for auto-erotic ego and sexual validation; I've known some of these guys. There's also another kind that really and genuinely thirsts after dudes in a genuinely almost impressive (but moreso worrying) way. Guys who tread the line between lust and cannibalistic hunger. There's all kinds of behaviours and the "gay identity" is a
19th century fabrication.
You could argue that non-anal stuff is "better", and I'm sure that's true in a relative sense, but honestly I think it's better to
aim beyond sexuality entirely.
If you've never had your prostate massaged you don't know what you're missing. It's not called 'the male g-spot' for nothing. You will cum buckets
Yeah and if I shoot up some heroin I bet it'll feel great too. No thank you. I don't need to start developing irresistible coom cravings in my butthole.
"I feel like a bit of an outcast from most trans femmes because usually they're more bottoms"
In what other group of people would this kind of subject even come up, let alone be something that'd make you an "outcast"? Imagine being with your friends or community and feeling like an "outcast" because you don't like the same sex positions. Who in your community would even know that? Do these guys not have friends beyond cooming?