For brain candy, I often turn to TLC and its exploitative “reality shows” which seems in some ways to replace the live “freak shows” located outside of circus tents. One of my current favorites is “Extreme Cheapskates.”
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When I first started working here a long time ago, I reviewed porn. One of my challenges was to not only find different words that mean cock, but to actually describe cocks specifically in terms other than size (of the lack thereof). What I fo
Does Bigger Mean Better?: Thoughts About A Book for "Size Queens"
In 1985, a book came out called How to Enlarge Your Penis. Yes, instructions on how to get that all powerful king of dicks that many men have always wanted. According to the book, by someone with a degree in history (what does history have to do with
Retrostuds of the Past: Focus on Lee Ryder
We at Bijou carry back issues of Manshots magazines, which was, I think, in its heyday (the late eighties and early nineties), offered a sophisticated approach to gay porn; its video reviews were generally cogent and intelligent, even scholarly. It t
Retrostuds of the Past: Focus on Pierce Daniels
“Pierce is quite stunning and every time I look at him I do get a bit weak. Looking at his photos that night I began to want to see him naked immediately.” – randyblue.com I must say I agree with the above quote, especially after looking at some of t
Retrostuds of the Past: Focus on Gino Colbert
I first encountered Gino Colbert in his youthful glory, in a spanking fetish film Bijou Video carries called Disciplining the Undisciplined Athlete. Gino, playing a short in stature boxer with a chip on his shoulder, and Michael Ryan spank each other
Retrostuds of the Past: Focus on David Ashfield
The facts (courtesy of Back2Stonewall.com): David Ashfield was one of the biggest names of 1980s porn, making dozens of movies and appearing in plenty more as a stunt dick. He was slim, born in 1960, had a huge and thick cut penis and topped (al
Retrostuds of the Past: The Inimitable, Luminous George Payne
The crowd historian Elias Canetti claims in Crowds and Power that invisible crowds have always existed. The most numerous, according to him, are those microscopic entities like bacteria and sperm. Crowds of them that can't be cou
One Ringy-Dingy, Two Ringy-Dingy: The Fun Days of Phone Before Cellphones
I am of a “certain age” that remembers prank phone calls, heavy phone books, payphones (do any exist anywhere these days?), and calling the operator. And, gasp, rotary phones. We had two rotary phones, one on the kitchen wall, and one down in
Weird People on the Bus
I've seen them on television and the movies, and I've even been in them (well, when you're from Cicero, Illinois, you've got to do something), but what exactly is a dive bar? Or more specifically, a gay dive bar? The ones I have seen on televi
Alexander the Gay
“326 BCE – Gay/bisexual military leader Alexander the Great completes conquest of most of the then known Western world, converting millions of people to Hellenistic culture and launching the Hellenistic Age.” I found this on a gay timeline someo
Daddy the magazine, with its clever subtitle "Prime Beef, Aged to Perfection," appeared in late 1989 as a quarterly, digest-sized publication.
The magazine has consistently focused on the erotic appeal of the older man/father-figure and his relationship with a younger man through fiction, artwork, and photographs of models.
I'll start with a cliché: a picture is worth a thousand words.
DSI acquitted on obscenity charges!
Who? What? Where?
Why would this story make the front cover of the then fledgling gay newspaper, The Advocate, in September 1967?
The 1960s may have been swinging and sexually liberating for some heterosexual segments of the population (were there any openly gay hippies?), but a gay person could still get arrested for kissing a member of the same sex in public, could not join the military (which could be a way to avoid the draft, then going on because of the Vietnam War), and could be fired from a job because of his/her orientation.
No, this is not an incentive to fuck (that could happen later after viewing).
A co-worker of mine handed me a list he found on the Internet. I don't know how reliable the source is, and issues of what turns people on tend to be vague. In fact, it seems like every hour there's a list that pops up somewhere, ten body parts women find attractive in men, or what a gay guy finds hot on another guy, etcetera, etcetera.
