Yes, you read the headline correctly. It's a burning national issue; did young gay and bi-sexual men enjoy their first same sex "penetrative" experience and what did that experience mean for their "sexual trajectory"? This scientific puzzler is being examined by the National Institutes of Health, who were given more than $400,000 in taxpayer money to answer it. Washington Free Beacon: The four-year study, being conducted by Johns Hopkins University, is examining the “meaning and function” of first “penetrative same-sex sexual experiences.” “Prior work has demonstrated that same-sex relationship trajectories support the development of self-esteem in young gay and bisexual men, while opposite same-sex relationships may be associated with homonegativity,” a grant for the project, which began in 2012, states. “Little is known about the meaning and function of first same-sex experience in...(Read Full Post)