Top Vs. Bottom: How Geography Affects Your Sexual Preference

Today in fascinating factoids: your preference for giving or receiving during that greatest of gay man pastimes, anal sex, may be heavily affected by the hemisphere you live in. It's so hard to find a good top in Russia.

Our friend over at the always entertaining Manhunt blog, Manhunt Daily, put together lists of countries with the highest percentages of self-identified tops and the highest percentages of self-identified bottoms based on those countries' Manhunt profiles. Sure, it's not exactly the most rigorously scientific study of sexual behavior that we've ever seen, but the results were still pretty fascinating. (Also, according to a 2009 article in Scientific American, "Self-labels are meaningfully correlated with actual sexual behaviors," so they can't be that far off.)

They found that the countries with the highest percentages of tops were all clustered together in northern South America and island nations in the Gulf of Mexico. On the, haha, flip side of the coin, the biggest bottoms almost all came from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Whatever could this possibly mean? Is their something about Spanish and Portuguese that brings out the total top in people? Or maybe a legacy of living under the iron fist of communism has somehow left a whole half of the globe just itching to take it up the butt? Who can say for certain? All we know is that we'll be planning our vacations accordingly.

· A Worldwide View of Tops Vs. Bottoms (manhuntdaily.com)