Archive for the ‘Gender and sexuality’ Category

Sex in the shadows

March 6, 2016

(There will be stuff about music and some incidental stuff on translation, but there’s also crude mansex in very plain language, so this is certainly not for kids or the sexually modest.)

The latest Daily Jocks ad, with a caption of mine (one you can sing!):

Randy Handy stands in the shadows
While his johns walk in the light
You see the rich guys shine in brightness
But their stud hustler’s out of sight

Randy is prime meat in his rentboy stable, so a 50%-off sale is a real money-saver, guys.

Some background notes on the fantasy in the caption, then lots of words on the source of the caption (meanwhile, think “Mack the Knife”).

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Xmosexual

March 5, 2016

This morning’s Steam Room Stories (videos set in a fictional men’s steamroom, frequented by really fit men of various sexualities talking about sex) looked at Gay Stereotyping, with three instances, together doing a pretty good job of covering the politics of gay sexuality in a few minutes while getting off three entertaining Xmosexual portmanteaus: in order, bromosexual, promosexual, normosexual. You can watch the episode here.

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Tinging the scalene triangle

March 5, 2016

From Daily Jocks on the 2nd, a set of three images for 2eros underwear, with this ad copy (untouched here):

X MARKS THE SPOT

Australian luxury brand 2eros have released The X-Series, a new active underwear collection. Each styles comes in two marle colours, grey and black. It features 2EROS’s signature form fit and singled lined pouch for that enhanced but natural lift. Made from premium Lenzing Modal® which has epitomized pure luxury and softness for over 40 years.

Give your skin the ultimate sensual feeling, the fibre remains wonderfully soft even after repeated washing and retains its color brilliance.

(As you will see in #2 below, the spot that X marks seems to be the anus.)

[Quick addition: I neglected to explain marle. This is the British spelling corresponding to American marl. From NOAD2:

a mottled yarn of differently coloured threads, or fabric made from this yarn: blue marl leggings. ORIGIN late 19th cent.: shortening of marbled.

Similarly, red marl, navy marl, and, yes, grey/gray marl and black marl.]

Below the fold, the three images, in the sequence they came in, with a little tale of a romantic triangle in my captions.

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Trent Atkins, a great bottom

March 4, 2016

(Pretty solidly about men’s bodies and mansex, in very plain street language — which I consider to be the default vocabulary for talking at length about the details of mansex —  but much of it is about the presentation of a sexual self and the structuring of gay porn, and some about the vocabulary for talking about these things. There are sexy images, but none over the line; the X-rated visuals are in an AZBlogX posting “X-rated Trent Atkins”. Still, this posting is absolutely not for kids or the sexually modest.)

I begin with the DVD that in some sense inspired this posting, Trent Atkins’s Best of DVD:

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A smooth (smooth-bodied and clean-shaven) very fit young man with a nicely muscled swimmer’s body; mid-length hair with a bit of blond streaking; an inscrutable facial expression that is neither challenging nor ingratiating; and jeans pulled down in reveal a substantial male ass in tighty-whities. Not exactly a classic twink, but maybe a muscle twink or just a muscle boy. In any case, displaying that ass and making it available for fucking. (This is, after all, a DVD of scenes from gay porn, a context in which an ass displayed like this sends a Fuck Me message.)

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Sex positions in action

March 3, 2016

On AZBlogX this morning, a piece about an ad for the porn flick Uncut & Raw, directed by William Higgins for Channel 1 Releasing, with a shot (#1) from the flick illustrating a particular position for anal intercourse, plus a re-run of a shot (#2) from the earlier flick Distraction, showing a complexly athletic three-way with another position for anal intercourse.

Comments there about some language of mansex: names of positions;  the metaphor in doggie or doggie-style; ride and mount as sexual metaphors; fuck sandwich (and meat in this act), 369, and spitroast+ (and pig in sexual spitroasting) as names of three-man sexual acts. (I note there that fuck sandwich is not in Sheidlower’s The F Word, also not in Green’s Dictionary of Slang.)

Then there’s William Higgins. From Wikipedia:

William Higgins (also “Wim Hof”) is a director of gay pornographic films. His first film, “Boys of Venice,” [Venice CA] was produced in 1979. He has since produced over 140 internationally distributed titles. His films have won several Grabby awards and he is in the GayVN Awards Hall of Fame. He is the founder of the film production company Catalina Video.

One of gay porn’s pioneers, William Higgins began making movies with a distinctive ‘”California look” in the 1970s and directed many of Catalina Video’s greatest hits for nearly two decades. With classic films like Pacific Coast Highway, The Young & the Hung, Sailor in the Wild, Class Reunion, Big Guns, These Bases Are Loaded, Brother Load, Beyond Hawaii, and French Lieutenant’s Boys.

Wikipedia doesn’t say when he was born, but he must be at least in his 60s (and probably in his 70s) now.

Briefly: gaysex, mansex

March 2, 2016

(Inspired by a note from a friend about Jane Ward’s Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, which I’ve written about on this blog before.)

There are sexual encounters often described as “straight men having gay sex”, but the men themselves deny that there is anything gay about it (and they might be to some degree homo-haters, strongly condemnatory of gay men and their cultures): it’s just sex with other men — not involving desire for another man, but having psychological values of its own.

The acts in question are ones that are characteristic of sex between gay men: man fellating man, men taking part in anal intercourse – in street talk, cocksucking and ass-fucking between men. But here the acts are disengaged from same-sex desire, gay identity, and involvement in gay culture. (Note: not every man who experiences strong same-sex desire identifies as gay, and not every man who identifies as gay is involved in some gay subculture — but men who identify as straight but engage in man-man sex deny all of these things, starting with the desire.)

I used to refer to these acts as gay sex or gaysex (coming at these things from the viewpoint of a frankly gay man), but increasingly I’ve shifted to talking about the acts more neutrally, as man-man sex — or, in convenient shorthand, mansex.

News on the sexuality front: the Jocktion Marketplace

March 1, 2016

From Mike McKinley this morning, news of the Jocktion Maketplace (website here). The name Jocktion is a portmanteau of jock ‘athlete’ and auction; the company’s enthusiastic pitch:

Welcome to Jocktion! We’re an online marketplace where the hottest guys sell the highest quality [used sports] gear. Register today to view our sales, check out our models, and participate in our Forums. Interested in selling your own gear? Apply today to earn top dollar on your merchandise. We’re constantly making improvements to our site and new items are being added, so be sure to check back often!

(Sellers pay a fee to list their wares; buyers get in free.)

The company is exploiting what you might call “contact magic”, the idea that clothes (and other artifacts) gain a kind of power from their association with specific people — usually famous people, in this case athletes. Some people will pay money to own a piece of clothing that had been worn by a celebrity. And some men will pay money to own a piece of sports gear that had been worn by a jock; its power lies in the strong masculine associations of men’s athletics.

Two thumbnails of (purported) models for the firm looking tough in their gear:

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Kickboxer displaying his muscular body.

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Football player displaying as much of his muscular body as he can in his shoulder pads, and in compensation doing a cock tease for the viewer.

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Getting Go

February 21, 2016

A wonderful gay-themed 2014 movie — sweet, very hot, touching, and funny — from the same people who brought us Were the World Mine (posted on here) back in 2008. Getting Go was done on an even more minuscule budget than the earlier movie, and with only two characters (called here Go — he’s a gogo dancer, among other things (like a painter) — and Doc — he’s a writer about to graduate from college and go on studying from there); Tanner Cohen, who plays Doc, was the star of the earlier movie, and Matthew Camp, who plays Go, is a designer and performance artist now retired from a solid career as a gogo dancer in NYC.

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The movie is not a porn flick, though it does have serious man-man sex scenes, as well as a lot of romance.

You can watch the trailer for the movie here.

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Mid-February news for penises

February 19, 2016

An accumulation of penis-related items to help fill in that celebratory gap between Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day. Meanwhile, mark your calendars: The annual Penis Festival in Japan will be held on March 15 (which is also the Ides of March).

A bit of musical foolishness, “The Pickle Man”. Then an (apparent) frat boy with a hunger for penis. And two captioned graphic images communicating something rather different from what their creators intended.

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Morning name: Colton Ford

February 18, 2016

The morning name on the 15th, but also discussed some here in my “Young gay love” posting of the 15th (about gay love songs), representing what I suppose we’ll have to call mature gay love — with a link to him performing his gay love song “The Way You Love Me” (“makes me want you more”).

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