Tank Says A Man Giving Another Man Oral Sex Doesn’t Mean He’s Gay
R&B crooner Tank caused quite the stir on social media after suggesting that a man giving another man oral sex more than once does not define his sexual orientation.
Tank sat down with The Breakfast Club co-host, Angela Yee’s on her Lip Service podcast to promote his latest studio offering, Elevation. They were joined by co-hosts Stephanie Santiago, GiGi Maguire, and Lore’l.
In a segment of the show, Yee got the ball rolling by talking about how she and some girlfriends recently had a discussion about the long list of excuses men come up with when they know they are dead wrong.
When Lore’L chimed in with a story about how a former flame was a terrible liar, Tank chimed in, “He’s not a liar. He just lied twice,” to which Yee inquired, “Doesn’t that make you a liar?”
When Yee countered with, “So, let’s say a guy sucked a dick one time,” to which Tank exclaimed, “Jesus Christ” as he almost choked on his drink. “Let’s say twice,” Yee continued, before rhetorically asking if that would make a man gay.
Much to the ladies’ surprise, the 43-year-old artist responded that oral sex with another man doesn’t necessarily make a man gay. Although he conceded that “twice is excessive,” he asked the ladies to hear him out first before dismissing his argument.
“He sucked a dick once, right? Then, he’s like I’m not sure if I liked it or not. Let me try it again, and then he says, ‘You know what? It’s not for me. Don’t like the taste.’ See what I’m saying?” he elaborated.
“It doesn’t mean he’s gay,” he concluded. “It means he sucked dick twice. The art of being gay is being gay. It’s a continuous state of being.”
This exchange quickly caused debate online, with people on Twitter going back and forth between applauding the singer for his opinion of sex and sexual orientation and others calling his opinion bull.
Tank can just admit he bi sexual . It’s 2019 baby you’re fully accepted but to say giving another man head ain’t gay is just 🥴 baby I –
— Crowned 👑 (@bgmtiara) October 22, 2019
Tank is absolutely right. It has to work both ways. If a self-identified gay man eats a girl out twice and doesn't like it, it doesn't make him straight, right? It's same concept just in reverse no matter how you wanna spin it. You can't pick and choose how and when it works. https://t.co/nCGqWMP9vq
— Ma$on (@FirstGentleman) October 22, 2019
I MIGHT let you get away with sucking a d*** once and be “experimenting”….but if you go BACK to try and suck it AGAIN?? Sis….. #Tank pic.twitter.com/9S97Ac9YXh
— Anastasia Novah (@Jamar84) October 23, 2019
Get with a whole man, undress that man, pull out his paynus with the intent to please, then commence to pleasing…BUT so long as you dont do it more than twice, you aint gay. Yeah…umm…just come out the damn closet #tank and the rest of you's. pic.twitter.com/wIXPWliM4A
— time_stamp (@back2_sleep) October 23, 2019
I mean I sorta kinda agree with Tank. It leaves a gaping question as to what is gay/lesbian/etc then if the acts we’ve abscribed as that for the last 8,000 years aren’t that anymore – “and my answer is always girl IDK. Go ask somebody who does.”😂😂😂
— a princess diana stan account (@seabethree) October 22, 2019
Responding to the online furor, Tank took to Instagram to indicate that he is comfortable with people disagreeing with his point of view.
In his latest Instagram video, Tank asks fans to check out the interview from Angela Yee’s “Lip Service” podcast and indicated that he’s perfectly comfortable with people disagreeing with his point of view. “I said what I said!” he mock-yelled on Instagram, then laughed. “Y’all so goddamn homophobic.”
In the caption of the post, he wrote, “We all are not the same and the beauty of exchanging information is what I enjoy. You don’t have to agree with someone’s difference to not hate them.”
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13 Comments
Ken
October 25, 08:03He’s right. Sex doesn’t necessarily define sexuality. Lots of gay men sleep with women everyday, that doesn’t make them straight. Reverse is the same
Choco
November 23, 12:42Yes, it doesn’t make them straight… It means they are bi…
Mandy
October 25, 08:16This depends on the intent o. Whether he is sucking dick once or twice or thrice, a guy who does that without any pressure — say he wants to pay bills or he has a gun to his head — IS GAY!!! You can’t just wake up one day and want to get some D just laidat and still want to be thought of as straight. No way, Jose.
Tristan
October 25, 10:23I don’t agree with you Mandy. What of me that likes pussy but not attracted to girls. Oh yeah, you heard that right. I’m still as gay af.
Pink Panther
October 25, 11:24You like pussy but are not attracted to girls?
Can you elaborate on this please?
Tristan
October 25, 14:12I don’t get boners at the sight of a fully clothed female nor anyone with an exposed torso. Flaunt your breasts and my John Thomas won’t even budge an inch let alone rise. I’m not turned on by female ass neither.
However, I’m a pussy fetish–I love to see, feel and eat that swollen, throbbing and pink hole–just as I love the sight of dick and bussy. I dont see myself emotionally vulnerable and exposed with ladies, the way I do when I’m with men. I feel like there’s more to just sex(of which I dont have), I need to give a lady to stay attached to her. This may partly be due to the fact that I’m demisexual.
There are nuances in a stereotype and I belong to one of it. I’m a gay man that loves the pleasure that pussy gives but with zero sexual attraction to femininity.
Pink Panther
October 25, 15:30Wow. This is… quite fascinating.
S@mm!e
October 26, 04:36Dude you’re bisexual! Take it or leave it, if you are “gay AF” then you won’t be fantasizing about female pussy… You are Bi.
Mike
October 29, 15:39I would actually just call this a strong fasination with feminity, especially the symbol of it, to your mind that is the pussy. It is not a sexual thing, it’s an identification or association thing. Thing is our brain can not really tell the difference between most conceptual things, on the base level, the stimuli, the reaction is the same, boils down to positive and negative.
For example there is no separate hormones secreted when a person loves chocolate or anything in particular, it’s still the same dopamine, that same dopamine responsible for sexual attraction. On the base level. Same also for repulsion, anger the same chemical duo may vary in degree.
A child who could never bond well with his father or a father figure, and grew up abused by his, would grow up being attracted to older men most likely, chill most guys hide this, but it’s a pattern and it’s real, in a way, in another its not a real attraction but a recognition of a need.
It’s the same thing you’re feeling, if a guy had a pussy, it would probably be a dream come true for you.
Milton
October 25, 12:05Okay… this stroke a cord… forget the post, let’s talk more about this.
trystham
October 25, 10:33What if he is pregnant? You know how all these pregnancy cravings are like.
You wake up tomorrow and resume disliking the agbalumo u ate thru the 3rd trimester
Itz
October 25, 16:29What if u fuck a girl does Dat make u straight do people turn straight once the are married
Black Dynasty
October 26, 08:52He has a valid point, men who identify as gay are married to women and have biological children but are not straight, heck they wouldn’t identify as bi either.
I imagine a few out gay men had sex with women whilst trying to maintain their cover in the closet. The same applies to what tank said.