MMA: Gay For Pay

Back in 2008 Mark Simpson asked a simple question: how gay is MMA? And the simple answer was: VERY! His steamy description of a live fight he attended sounded (deliberately of course) like a review of the latest homo porno: ‘Mac Danzig is still on his back; his sweaty, pumped, almost translu­cently white torso is flushed with [...]

In Defence Of… Johann Hari

I never thought I’d be saying this, but I want to defend Johann Hari today. Not for his confessed plagiarism, or for the fact he is terrible at writing. His prose gives me what I can only describe as abjection, which I suppose is a sort of achievement. Not for his politics, especially his gayism, [...]

Obscenity Discourse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2012/jan/06/michael-peacock-obscenity-trial?newsfeed=true In an unusual move, the Guardian, the ‘liberal voice’ of Britain, which is normally the feminist voice, and the puritanical voice, has come out in favour of a man who sells hardcore S and M m/m porn. Why this strange turnaround? Well, if we look a bit more closely at their discourse, we can [...]

Men and Women Are Not So Different Shocker!

‘According to a new study by researchers at Ohio State University, the oft-cited statistic that men think about sex, on average, about once every seven seconds can safely be put to bed—in a college-age population of 163 mixed-gender respondents, the median frequency of sexual thoughts for men was just 19. Women, meanwhile, weren’t far behind [...]

Belle de Jour by Numbers

Belle de Jour, now known as Dr Brooke Magnanti, is writing a book called Sexonomics. She is blogging about the topics that will be covered in the book: mainly pornography, sex work and the sex industry. It is a critical look at the media, research and feminist analyses of these areas. It sounds great, but [...]

Hello, Kitty – Stryker responds to my ‘female gaze’ critique

http://androaperture.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/poll-whatre-you-looking-at/ This is Kitty’s comment in full from the previous post below. I have added some notes in response in bold. Anyone else got anything to say on it? ‘Theory does turn me on. And it turns on a lot of my friends. QRG, I’ve seen that you’e had this argument with other people doing [...]

Gazing at Men, Gazing.

QRG has been getting into a spot of bother-again-about the ‘female gaze’ again! This time by arguing with Kitty Stryker, who has recently set up the Andro Aperture Project. http://androaperture.wordpress.com/ This is what she says about the project (emphasis mine): ‘Andro-Aperture is a mini-crusade for the appreciation of male beauty in all its forms- sexy [...]

Disembodied Limbs

I can’t get this image out of my head. I keep going back to it to try and work out what the guy is holding. My perverse imagination has decided it is part of a body the delicious model has recently dismembered. Any other ideas?

Raw Sex

One reason I don’t get as wound up about the ‘lack’ of decent pornography that features men’s bodies, as Some People, is that I find plenty of very hot images in realms that are not officially classed as ‘porn’. AND they are free or cheaper than the vast majority of porn. How many M/M/m S [...]

The Tyranny of Beauty

Can you have beautiful buff boy fatigue? Beautiful, buff, hairless chest, pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful, buff, hairless chest, a hint of sensitivity in the expression, pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful buff, hairless chest, a hint of sensitivity in the expression, homogenous homoerotics pretty young white boy fatigue? Beautiful buff, hairless chest, a [...]