Well, unfortunately, looks like he's resigning.

Dude. He's resigning over this.

What the fuck.

hes G-A-Y-!
no one in the republican party will want to shake his hand after this!




ok, its been five minutes. we should start taking bets on the next gaypublican to be outed.

Let me post AROUND the issue a wee bit.

Why anonymous sex with strangers? Could have a bit to do with the shame society associates with homosexuality. But honestly, I think thats way less of a reason than the fact that homosexual males have sex with other males.

It's the same reason the public tends to have that much more disdain for gay men than with lesbians. Women are seen as the dam that holds back the tide of wanton whatever that "all men want."

We're disturbed (and perhaps a bit jealous) that two individuals who always want sex have one another to always get it from.

ASSH0LE is specifically addressing the issue of anonymous gay sex. Gay monogamy, and heterosexual anonymous hookups, are actually offtopic here.

My understanding is that heterosexual anonymous sex is pretty different from gay anonymous sex. There is no straight equivalent of the bath house scene (at least not one that doesn't involve rohypnol or something), and girls don't wander around parks at night hoping to have sex with random guys in bushes (unless there's an exchange of money involved).

Those are both legacies of the closet, really, for all that they've been claimed for liberation, too. And they're used to advantage by the closeted.

That's not always true, and in any event yaoi isn't entirely unpopular with women. It seems to me that the more pertinent consideration is an atavistic primate social instinct that equates penetration with social hierarchy. A man who is penetrated is ceding dominance to the penetrator, and therefore become less respectable and more feminine. It violates the instinctive rules of masculinity.

Understand, I'm not saying I agree with that - I think it's an idiotic attitude more suited to gorillas than to humans. But there are a lot of humans out there who have a little too much in common with gorillas, frankly.

Uh, yes. Always. That's what gay cruising is all about.

I thought this was:

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Damn, Zarth, you've encapsulated my thoughts exactly. Even down to considerations of mating apes!

The "general societal mentality" with regard to what seems sexy is largely defined by what seems sexy to heterosexual men.

I was taking that into account. It's still nothing approaching the same level. Seriously.

I mean, I don't want to give you the impression that all gay men are into the cruising scene. I'm not even sure a majority are (I'd have to check figures and get back to you). But within that scene, sexual activity is far, far more anonymous and constant than in any comparable straight scene - again, that doesn't involve some kind of exchange of money.

And cruising - or paying - is definitely favored by the closet cases, because it means they can keep their sexuality securely walled off from the rest of their lives.

Oh. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it refers to the gay cruising scene.

Look me up next time you're in Seattle.

NYTimes has a good article/column on "America's Toe-Tapping Menace" - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/opinion/02macdonald.html?th&emc=th

I like the sentiment it ends on:
"And for our part, let's stop being so surprised when we discover that our public figures have their own complex sex lives, and start being more suspicious when they self-righteously denounce the sex lives of others."

Thanks for posting that article; very interesting, and this quote

says a lot.

Kind of an old article, but this made me laugh.