So there I was, on a website that pictured a guy with a baseball bat up his ass.
Is this hot, ya think? Or is this disgusting?
So I surfed to another site filled with stills of hunky guys I’d never seen; but then I started reading, and it turned out the author trolls Facebook and Flickr for guys who post pix to draw chicks.
He drools over them because they’re Straight. Occasionally he gets a little lightbulb and wonders why he’s always wanting guys he can’t get.
You set it up that way, dude, so enjoy the payoff. It made me sad, because he’s an intelligent fellow who writes well.
So I surfed to another website, containing more pictures of Orgasm By Degradation, plus illiterate fantasy-rants aimed at guys sucking cock and getting fucked. “Pig,” “cum dump,” you’ve heard the litany.
And the thing is, he’s a bottom. The pictures he posts are the fantasies he has. He’s calling himself the same filthy names he calls the guys just like him—maybe guys like you.
A little verbal abuse never hurt anyone, but is this what Harvey Milk died for?
If you really want to find homophobia on the internet, go to the pornographic websites of Gay men. The self-hatred we have is far worse than anything out of rightwing crackpots.
It troubles me, because somehow we’ve not, in this 40th anniversary year after Stonewall, learned the most basic lessons of pride and self-regard applied to our sex lives.
We understand the politics and media wars now—but we haven’t thought through how pride might change our sex lives. It creates new boundaries; it sets new limits. “Oh, we hate limits! Up with piggies, we’re all piggies!”
Suck off a homophobe if you want, but I don’t want to be near one, Gay or not. Baseball bats? They don’t even wiggle.
I do agree, some sleaze is really hot—Harvey wasn’t above it and I’m not either. We’re really not liberated men if we don’t open ourselves to all the possibilities of sex. But from there, from that menu of possibilities, we have to pick and choose in our own best interest.
Otherwise you could end up with a bat up your ass, and I’m sorry, that’s just crazy. Orgasm by Degradation is a soul-killer.
And over time, you’ll stop getting off anymore, none of the degradation will go far enough. Your mind will constantly create new humiliations, and none of the scenes will be graphic enough, none of the men filthy enough. You’ll get jaded. Mr. Willie will fall asleep. You’ll be greased up and pounding while he’s making ZZZs.
Is that really what we want our children to be learning, that whoredom is the road to nirvana? Is this the liberated “culture” we’re bequeathing to them?
It’s based on self-destructive, internalized homophobia, as if we are lesser men. We aren’t.
That’s the message of this blog, apparently. Yes, love power as the essence of masculinity, but use it wisely.
Don’t do the baseball bats; suck you some toes, attached to a guy who talks dirty to you:

I’ve stayed away from this blog for over a month now, and I’m surprised to be writing even this. I found that within just a few weeks of starting it, I’d said what I had to say. But today I have to return to it with this post. I don’t want to lecture, I don’t want to sermonize, but I do want to say some positive things I’ve learned over the years about being Gay. Freddy, if it ain’t positive, it ain’t Gay lib.
A Gay guy who’s a real man is the sexiest guy there is. He’s the most open-minded, the freest man of all.
And the thing is, we get to define what’s a real man. We can be anything we want, and everything we dreamed of.
I happen to like traditional masculinity in a Gay context; that’s just me. You can be whatever you want to be. If you like to play dress-up or anything else, go for it. It’s your right in a democratic society, and don’t let anyone take it away from you ’cause your dress is nicer than theirs is.
But: I like muscle. I like power. I like deep voices. I like boots. I like responsibility. I like paying my bills. I like sports. I like working out. I like staying home. I like clean and sober. I like good friends and one overriding relationship. I like monogamy, because it’s the best sex.
My fantasy about this next shot? It’s a Tuesday, they’re just watching TV.

On Tuesdays I like fucking. I like getting my dick sucked. I like a boy who calls me sir, not because I make him but because he has that much respect and love for me.
(And okay, yeah, I make him sometimes, ’cause that’s our private sleaze.)
Even as I criticize these other websites and the homophobia I see in them, I can identify somewhat with where they’re coming from. Sometimes I think they’re all Baby Boomers who grew up in the bad old days and tried to make things better, but didn’t always know how. Other times I see they’re not “fat-and-fifty” at all; they’re younger than I am. And I think, “Guys, didn’t anyone ever sit you down and show you how to keep Pat Robertson out of your bedroom and out of your head?”
But the answer is no, no one ever did that. So in the constant pursuit of orgasm, they often find the loss of power stimulating—and I couldn’t agree more. But there’s a right way and a wrong way.
Orgasm by Degradation is a horrible mistake, because it reinforces the most ancient notions in your head that you are an inferior male unfit to be called a man. You’re not!
You’re not, you’re not, you’re not. (Okay, I got that out of the way.)
The question is, what’s better about being a Gay man? A lot. No one’s trading places but we’ve got a lot of advantages.
1. Being Gay makes you smarter.
I don’t want to stereotype Straight guys, but the reason I don’t turn on to them, unlike the blogger who disqualifies everyone reading this as inadequate, is because their culture is so low to the ground. NASCAR, shoot-’em-ups, car chases, fart jokes—for this we’ve occupied the planet for 300,000 years?
2. Being Gay makes you tougher.
They seem to believe that watching war movies and cop shows teaches them how to act when confronted with danger. But we know danger from walking down the street every day; who do you suppose gets more practice in toughness?
3. Being Gay makes us freer with our bodies.
Gay guys are much more experimental sexually than Straight guys. I have no patience with “tops” who don’t want their prostates massaged. They’re too fucking stupid to tell what time it is. Think this guy’s butt isn’t alive?

Your asshole is the best thing ever invented. But to Straight guys it’s way off limits; they’re afraid they’d enjoy it too much. Somebody might make fun of them. They might have homosexual tendencies. Oh, the horror! What if they got attacked for being Gay? They’d turn tail and run. They always do; the worst oppression in the world is what Straight guys go through—from other Straight guys who are even more insecure.
What’s the #1 observation of Straight women about their lovers? “Men’s egos are so fragile.”
Straight guys who like Gay guys are some of the best friends you’ll ever have.
4. Gay guys get to fuck without making babies.
Believe me, most of them would much rather do that too. Kids are expensive, they tie you down. When they’re not being darling, they piss and shit in your face—and that’s when they’re 16.
5. Gay guys get to enjoy power, strength, muscle, courage and hardness in ourselves and each other.
I totally love it when Current Boy works out, gets hard, makes a smart decision, solves a problem, is kind to animals, sends his mother an e-card, sings in the shower, says something funny, puts together a meal, speaks out on an issue, defends the flag or gets misty over that Boyle lady on YouTube. He’s a whole human being, and he isn’t afraid of himself.
The Boy just likes to get fucked.

I try to nurture him the best I can, because he needs that, we all do. He’s allowed to feel all his feelings, from complete submission to total domination. These tend to happen in separate places (work and home), but it’s not like we’ve never switched. He has a right to get aggressive, a right to cry, a right to laugh.
I love this boy, and it wouldn’t work if he were Straight, or I had to degrade him, or he had to be degraded.
A baseball bat may certify that you’re the “cum slut pig” of jackoff fantasies, but it never washes the car, or brings you a sandwich, or tells you you’re right when the people at work are so fucked up.
It’s just a baseball bat, and you deserve better; we all do.++