Nearly half of gay men have had an open relationship
By Nick Duffy, Pink News:
The claim comes from a survey carried out by FS Magazine and gay men’s health charity GMFA.
The magazine surveyed 1,006 gay men in the UK – and unsurprisingly found that a lot of them have liberal views about sex.
According to the survey, 41% of men have previously experienced, or are currently in, an open relationship.
Three quarters of the men who had tried them believed that open relationships are ‘great’.
Of these, 75% said they have rules in place with their relationship – for example only allowing threesomes with both people involved – but 21% admitted to breaking the rules at least once.
Despite their prevalence, a lot of men who have never tried open relationships hold negative opinions of them.
33% of men in monogamous relationships believe that ‘open relationships are not real relationships’ – while 19% believe relationships end up open because gay men can’t be monogamous.