It's co-authored by Eric Anderson, Adi Adams and Ian Rivers. Sociologist Eric Anderson, Professor of Sports Studies at Winchester University, now joins me. Now you say in the introduction to your fascinating paper - you say in the introduction that this heterosexual kissing acquires a great deal of significance from the one drop theory of homosexuality - tell me what that is. The one drop theory of sexuality comes from the theory of race, the one drop theory of race, in which one drop of non-white blood made one ostensibly not white. And I've taken it to apply to sexuality where I call it the one time rule of homosexuality.Īnd what this simply means is that one drop of a gay act, a behaviour that's coded as indicative of homosexuality, in the life of a heterosexual has polluted his entire heterosexual life. The opposite is not true - so an openly gay man could have sex with a woman once and nobody says 'oh well, maybe he's actually straight'. So it's a one way rule for this drop - for this one time rule, and it's decreasing. Tell me just a bit about the people that you interviewed, who were they? You're looking at students here, young men and teenagers you go out in search of evidence that in fact heterosexual kissing can take place without any implications for this having some significance in relation to homosexuality or possible homosexuality.
