But stereotypes must be taken with a pinch of salt and only account for a small percentage of the truth. The most common stereotype for a bottom is a younger guy with little body hair, who is on the camp side of the spectrum. The actual reason why some people and tops and others are bottoms is way more complicated than that.

In 2017, a study by University of Toronto Mississauga found that men who showed more masculine personality traits were likely to be tops, while those who had feminine traits were often bottoms.īut this is just one study.