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In the present article we analyze the polymorphous prejudice against Lesbians and Gays using a sample of Portuguese heterosexual individuals. We tested the differential importance of demographic, ideological, and psychological-level variables predicting this phenomenon. Results show that male Catholic right-wing respondents with less LG friends are the ones exhibiting higher polymorphous prejudice. Nevertheless, the introduction of psychologicallevel variables in the regression models increased the explained variance of polymorphous prejudice, above and beyond the remaining predictors. Also, different patterns of results are obtained when regression analyses are deployed at the level of the sub-scales of polymorphous prejudice. Results are discussed within the light of contemporary sexual prejudice frameworks, and the utility of results to intervention with discriminated LG individuals is reviewed.

The aim of this study is to understand how men experience sexual behavior in relation to dominant masculine norms in heteronormative social organizations. After a systematic search and a careful study selection process, we analyzed 15 scientific qualitative studies on men's sexual practices that draw on hegemonic masculinity. We then carried out a thematic synthesis of the results that collectively covered 438 male narratives ranging in age from 11 to 71. The results include (hetero)sex as a signifier of manhood, male sexual collectivity; sexual hierarchies; sexual risk; and the invisibility of sexual diversity. This meta-synthesis emphasizes the complex relationship between male sexuality and the influence of hegemonic masculinity, revealing important health and well-being effects on men. Also, this highlights a dynamic relationship that affects not only men but also their partners in sexual relationships.

This article explores the concept of sexual fluidity and its applicability to men’s sexual experiences by approaching the surveillance and control of hegemonic masculinity. We carried out semi-structured interviews with 15 participants aged between 20 and 53 who state having experienced sexual fluidity. The analysis conveys how sexuality is a work in progress while highlighting the intersections of masculinities and sexualities in a heteronormative, mononormative, sexually rigid, and hegemonically masculine social context. The results indicate the potential flexibility, malleability, and changeability of all sexual identities, orientations, and experiences when disengaging from a heteronormative approach in sexual relations.

Hegemonic masculinity constitutes a relevant tool for understanding the genderization processes prevailing in men's sexualities. Hence, we deployed this concept as a resource to analyse how sexual fluidity might apply to the sexuality of nonheterosexual men and how they experienced this. We carried out semi-structured interviews with 15 participants, ranging from 20 to 53 years old, who all reported having experienced sexual fluidity. This article presents experiences of sexual fluidity as a shifting identity amidst flexible sexual activities and concerns over normativity through personal and social reactions taking place in a heterostable social world. These results exhibit the negotiations of sexual fluidity with hegemonic masculinities, both reproduced and questioned.