Letter From An Alien: A Dangerous Method

Some notes on seeing A Dangerous Method: I hate Keira Knight­ley usu­ally but I thought she acted quite well in this. I liked how her con­tor­tions of emo­tional pain were exactly the same expres­sions in tone, as when she was approach­ing orgasm due to the beat­ings from Jung. The por­trayal of female masochism as a result of [...]

Letter From An Alien: It’s Over, Roland

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/a-marine-comes-home.html This photo has gone viral recently. It was first posted on a ‘Gay Marines’ FB page and has since been sent round the internet, with the tagline ‘Gay Marine Comes Home’. You know me. I am an out and proud ‘homophile’. I am bordering on being a homo myself.  My blog archives are full [...]

What Do Men Want? #2 Reference to: @marksimpsonist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2105472/Crying-films-cuddling-sofa-enjoying-bubble-baths-Its-end-macho-man-era-women-prefer-way.html Lately I have noticed the Daily Mail becoming a bit more pro-metrosexual than in previous years, and MUCH less metro-phobic than most other papers including the ‘liberal’ broadsheet, The Guardian. So I was not surprised to read an upbeat DM article this week, about how men are changing and becoming ‘softer’ and more open [...]

Going Anonymous

Following the realisation that Mark Simpson had taken my IP address and banned me from viewing his blog, I have had a crash course in becoming an internet nerd. I installed a TOR browser which enables me to surf the net anonymously* and to access Simpson’s blog without him knowing it is me. I then [...]

The Naked Muse

Coming up in London this week is an exhibition called The Naked Muse.  Pictures of naked men are usually of interest to me, so I thought I’d find out a bit more about it. Full details of the exhibition, featuring black and white photos of men poets in the nuddy, and the calendar to go [...]

A Note About Mark Simpson’s Blog @marksimpsonist

As people know Mark Simpson and I fell out a while back. Since then he has blocked me on facebook, removed my blogs from his blogroll, etc. Now he has banned me from viewing his blog altogether. I use a proxy server and can access his blog there. But any links to his blog from [...]

The Death Of Childhood

http://lawandsexuality.blogspot.com/2012/02/sexy-boy-and-treasure-island-media.html Law and Sexuality Blog has an interesting article about a M/m porn company, TIM which has been marketing its wares with images of young boys. You can read the whole article here. In it Chris, an academic, writes: ‘there is the less radical, but perhaps no less controversial idea that children can be sexual beings. [...]

In Defence Of… Masochism

Full disclosure: I am a full-blown, perverse, emotional and sometimes physical masochist. To be honest, I – and  Freud - think masochism is actually an aspect of all of our psyches and sexualities. Maybe to a greater or lesser degree depending on the person, but on some level or another we can all relate to the [...]

Space

The Marvellous Slope Show is back! Season Two of the story of superficial, homophobic lesbians Desiree and Ingrid kicks off with a poignant (but hilarious) episode called ‘Taking Space’ http://theslopeshow.com/2012/02/14/season-2-episode-1-taking-space/ This reminds me of the song: Space, by Pulp. The lyrics of the album version begin: You said you wanted some space … Well is [...]

Best Sex Writing 2012: A Review

Being lectured by Susie Bright about sex is not my idea of fun. So maybe choosing to read a book, about sex, introduced and curated by the American sex positive ‘sexpert’ and activist was a mistake. But non, je ne regrette rien, and this is why. The collection of 24 essays, with forewords by Susie [...]