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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Crushed! Women no longer centre of attention shocker…

Tube Crush   seems so inevitable, I am kind of surprised it didn’t happen sooner. The website, http://www.tubecrush.net/ set up recently by a group of friends (men and women), is a new online hit. People are asked to send in photos of hot men they have spotted on London’s Underground system, that they have taken surreptitiously [...]

Unethical Sluts

‘Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so’. Nick often recalls that line from a John Berryman poem (is it one of the Dream Songs?) on a midweek evening like this. Dinner has been consumed, half a bottle of Sauvignon stares back at him from the coffee table, whispering, silently, ‘finish me’. The TV [...]

Geek Porn

Looks like The Black Spark has taken all but two of his videos offline. I told you he may spoil the fun soon… Black Spark And The Clouds, the recently discovered ‘New Gay Art Film’ sensation really really is asking to be analysed within an inch of his life. But I don’t want to spoil [...]