I don't understand the whole thing about taking it up the arse being the worst thing that can happen. For me (no disrespect intended) fucking a guy, oral etc are worse but I suppose everyone's different.
Yeah, I can completely see your point - as far as I know, most straight guys do need to participate in a lot of anti-gay talk (including "oh it's fine for the gays! Yeah, if I were gay, I would totally bum him. Gays are great! But I'm definitely NOT gay, oh no, I'm ALL about boobs! BOOBS, I say! BOOOOBS!!") for the purposes of establishing themselves within same-sex friendship/social groups; they will also usually talk this way around a straight woman if she inquires about his sexuality.
And I think it's often awkward for anyone to talk about intimate details of their most private sexual thoughts and fantasies in a general friendship group so it makes perfect sense in a way and is very common. I do not talk about whether or not I'd do gay-for-pay with the majority of people I know, even if we're having quite a sexually-open conversation already - possibly because I wouldn't want to have an argument about whether or not I'm secretly gay when I'm pretty sure I do know my own sexual orientation!
So talk is talk. I don't think there's a rule out there about not being allowed to contemplate selling your anal virginity as a straight guy - I don't think you necessarily have to therefore have secret gay/bi fantasies at all. This whole situation is probably vaguely similar to me being totally prepared to have full-on lesbian sex if someone seriously offered to pay me ?1000 for a half hour, but for less than that, nope, I am too straight to have any personal interest in it and so just would rather not bother.
(Oh but wait - aren't all women supposed to be secretly bisexual? I'm pretty sure that's in the "Rulez Of Sex" book, as written by Cosmo/Men's Health, too, but I guess I haven't read my copy yet.

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(Sorry Cat - I definitely don't mean any of this as an attack on you or your post! If I sound sarcastic, it's only towards what I think are restrictive gender/sexuality stereotypes, and I'm only writing out my point of view in a general way/in order to support Mr Average's idea because his view resonates with me. I know you said you were only talking from your friends' reported experiences, and he and I are just doing the same based on our personal experience.

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