Very cool YouTube guy

I'm going to give you guys a channel on Youtube that you really have to watch.  But there is a catch:  you have to promise me that you'll watch his videos in chronological order!  Seriously, no peeking at the latest videos, because then you'll ruin the element of "coolness" in his postings.  (I've discovered that he's recently changed his profile picture, so this may become a bit more problematic).

His channel AreYouSuprised  was started before the US ban on gays in the military was lifted.  He posts his thoughts (without revealing his face or identity) about being gay in the military and (even worse) coming from Alabama, where people tend to have sun burned necks. (I think only Americans will understand this last sentence).

When the ban is officially lifted, he takes the step of not only revealing his face, but also......well, you should watch to find that out, it's worth it and a bit uplifting.

International "relations"

Since I began my tireless research (yeah, that's a good word - let's call it research) on www.gayromeo.com (or www.planetromeo.com for those of you logging in at work) there has been one thing that has given me a whole new faith in mankind.  I know this may sound a bit dramatic at first, but just read on.

During the course of my research, I've taken the opportunity to look at countless profiles of guys in countries to which I happen to have a current fetish attraction to.  Lately, that seems to be guys in the Middle East.  Jewish or Arab, I don't care - they're all cut and smoking hot.  (If my friends ever found out that I was attracted to guys with hair on their chest, I'm certain that they would have me committed to an insane asylum, as all I'm life I've been into young hairless twink boys - so let's keep this our little secret, ok?)

But I digress.  How, you're probably asking yourselves at this point, does smithster11's facination with Middle Eastern men translate into a newly found hope and faith in mankind?  Well, it's this:

No matter where you're from, no matter what your religion, no matter if you are gay or bi...we all just want to get laid!  We truly are all alike and want the same things in life.  Look at profiles from anywhere in the world and you'll see that they all look pretty much the same (pictures of penises, naked bodies (if you've got a nice one to show) and the stated desire of wanting sex.

So if we've got a base to understand mankind and we see that deep down we are all pretty much alike, how hard can it be to achieve world peace?  Let's get started, one guy at a time.

Porn is getting.....serious

Anyone notice that porn is getting really intense lately?  And by intense I mean really, really hard core.  Stuff I wouldn't have expected to see so widely available without going to some seedy bookstore in Amsterdam for, now seems to be common everyday stuff.  People are getting pretty used to it too, I think.  Fisting - been there done that.  Pissing - old hat. Sex with animals - yawn.  Bareback - sure.

I've wondered about the reasons for this and I can really only come up with one thing.  Just as capitalism relys on growth for it's survival, porn always needs to go to that next level to keep the people coming (pun intended).  And I think the thing that is astonishing is the speed with which it's progressed.

Immoral and wrong?  Maybe.  But can they just get rid of that damn automatic renewal requirement?

Please comment if you have a view, I'd really appreciate hearing from you.

Cruising in the modern world

Imagine a time before the internet and being gay. (Those readers younger than 20 won't have a clue about this).  Getting sex was a long drawn out affair, especially if you were nervous about not being out.  Either you furtively bought some kind of gay sex mag (heart pounding, palms sweaty wondering if the lady behind the counter would make some kind of nasty remark or worse....call your Mother and ask if she knew what her little boy was doing!) or you spent hours in some cold park or drafty train station toilet hoping something under the age of 40 would show up.

If you went the magazine route, you had to write a note and go to the post office to mail it to someone you really had no idea of what they looked like!  Then you wait for days/weeks for a response that may or may not come and hope that your mother didn't open the damn mail.  Phew....all of this just to try and get laid.

If you went the park or toilet route, then at least you could see what you were getting, but dammit there was always the cold and the fear of being murdered - actually neither of which are really that pleasant.

Alas, the dawn of the internet era!  At the beginning you could only read ads and reply to them in the comfort of your own home, but much to your concern the damn dial up modem and computer were in the freaking living room.  And then there was the worry about those pesky "cookies" that were like bread crumbs in the forest leading your nosy sister to find your most hidden secrets.

But soon the concept of "Privacy" was formed!  (Seriously, why do you think all the browsers now have a "private browsing" option???  Trust me, it's not so that your family will find out that you have a secret Swiss bank account that you were using)  Things are beginning to get a bit easier and you can pretty much now cruise the sordid gay world to your horny little hearts content.

But there was a dark side to all of this.  People could now get picky!  You may actually have to experience total and utter rejection from people YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW!  On the other hand, before you went on a date you could not only know how old they were (well, usually... but there are lots of exceptions) and what their name was, but.....you can know if they're top/bottom, how big their dicks are (a future post will be dedicated to this) and whether they're into fisting or not.  Sheesh, so many choices!  Sometimes perhaps a few too many choices...have you ever been to a grocery store and looked at the variety of breakfast cereals and wonder who the hell needs this many cereals?  

Do you decide not to meet someone who is "into" some weird fetish?  (again, a topic for a future post) Maybe the guy is the best thing in the world or you could spend the rest of your lives together with, but you decide not to.  You know, there is such a thing as "too much information".  Whatever happened to finding out about people by actually talking and spending time with them?

I know, I am sounding like an old fart who pines away for old time "values".  Talk about values nowadays and what do you get back...a "lol".  But anyway, it's all for the good and life must go on.  Who am I to stand in the way of progress??.  Just don't take things to seriously, be careful and you'll have a lot of fun out there.  I know I am.