I Don’t Think Your Dad’s Ready (for the homoerotics of Arnie)

Someone on twitter this week was talking about how she tried to explain to her Dad the ‘homoerotic subtexts’ in the 1980s Hollywood film, The Lost Boys. But he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) see it, and thought it was just a movie about vampires. This led me to introduce her to the work of Mark MetroDad Simpson. [...]

A Spot Of Bother – A Critique of a Sex Research Critique

According to Dr Petra Boynton, academic and ‘sexologist’, a recent study about the elusive g-spot (in women) is rubbish. This rubbish research has been reported in the media as truth. So she has critiqued the media reporting, based on her own knowledge of sex research and how it gets communicated to the public. So far so [...]

Feminism Is Creepy (and full of contradictions)

‘I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo, what the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.’ What is the worst thing you can call a man? According to feminism, it seems the worst thing you can call a man is a ‘woman’ or a ‘girl’. Most feminist writing on masculinity focuses on ‘misogyny’. If [...]

Metro -A- Sexual ?

David Jay is the poster boy for the asexuality movement. I don’t know about you, but judging by his ability to embrace the camera’s gaze, I am wondering if he does not desire to be desired  as much as any metrosexy young man today. Maybe David doesn’t need to have sex with anyone else, because he is [...]

We’re All Queer In The End: Review of The Declining Significance Of Homophobia

This is another version of my review of  Mark McCormack s new book on Declining Homophobia. ——————————————– The Declining Significance of Homophobia, by Mark McCormack, is, according to its author, a ‘good news story’. The good news being that homophobia amongst young people is on the wane. His research with mainly young men students in three English [...]

Why Feminism Is Wrong About Patriarchy by Typhon Blue

Typhon blue, who sometimes comments here at QRGHQ, is, according to her profile on her own blog: ‘a Canadian in her thirties. She writes about the state of decay in the relationship between the genders in our culture with a focus on men’s vulnerability and women’s agency. She is also currently working on a sci-fi [...]

Best Sex Writing Blog Tour

Earlier this year I wrote a review of  Best Sex Writing 2012, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Now the book is on a Blog Tour and I am delighted to be taking part. You can buy the book from Amazon.com  and Amazon.co.uk Here is a section of my review, followed by an extract from one of my favourite pieces in [...]

The Possibility Of Independent Thinking

‘The entire gay male community seems at times to be colluding against the possibility of independent thinking. The gay rights movement, too often, is focused on theatrics rather than on discourse; we want to be entertained and flattered, not criticised’. – John Weir in Anti Gay (1996 ed. Mark Simpson). I was delighted to have [...]

Better Go Now – New Song From Police Dog Hogan

I first heard about Police Dog Hogan when one of the band members, Tim Dowling wrote a quite self-depreciating piece in the Guardian about how he’d taken up the banjo, and was doing some gigs with a bluegrass band. He is one of few writers in the Graun whose prose I enjoy reading, but whilst [...]

Smashwords Reverse Censorship Decision

This is an email I received on March 13, 2012 Smashwords author/publisher update:  PayPal Reverses Proposed Censorship Great news.  Yesterday afternoon I met with PayPal at their office in San Jose, where they informed me of their decision to modify their policies to allow legal fiction. Effective last night, we rolled back the Smashwords Terms [...]