That was the salacious front-page block-capitals headline the (now defunct) heavily fragranced men’s magazine Details gave my exclusive ‘undercover’ story for them in May 2006. I was reporting on the globally covered scandal involving US soldiers from the elite 81st Airborne being courts-martialed for appearing in gay porn – from inside,… Read More »‘INSIDE THE SORDID PORN SCANDAL THAT’S ROCKING THE ARMY’
Today’s panics about online onanism are usually based on a cherished, quasi-religious ideal of ‘natural’ and ‘normal sex’. But instead of procreation, they often assume the ‘purpose’ of sex and sexual desire to be (hetero) ‘love and intimacy’ – and cast porn as the satanic lubricant of the fappers’ sins.
Tom of Finland’s drawings are to appear on Finnish stamps this September. What better way to mark the global triumph of his kinky redesign of the male body? After all, Tom’s men were made to be licked from behind.
‘What do women want?’, is the title of a long feature by Amanda Hess at Good Magazine, based around a 25 year-old male (straight) porn star called ‘James Deen’, illustrated with some long-shot snaps of him fully-clothed, lounging around his ‘porn mansion’, looking like a young Roman Abramovich. Despite ‘Deen’… Read More »Straight Sausagefests: The Slutty, Passive Pleasure of Porn
Mark Simpson attends an epic UFC event and finds himself turned on to the charms of ‘gay porn for straight men’. (Originally appeared in Out magazine, June 2008) Imagine the Space Shuttle taking off with a really fat customized exhaust pipe. Or Visigoths sacking Ancient Rome with kicking bass tubes… Read More »Fight Club: How Gay is MMA?