In my note about the foolish men who think photographs of their phallus is the best way to present themselves this remark inspired a little skepticism:
On gay sites - where enthusiasm for penises is a given - such photos don’t appear.
Ok, there are nitwits everywhere. But I’ve never seen a cock shot on, say, Slaves4Masters.
You see a gay man with even a modestly successful sex life will see more penises within a year or two of coming out than most women will in their lifetimes. Gay men certainly like penises but aren’t devastated by the site of one. And know that unless they are singularly blest theirs won’t inspire awe.
The straight guy - and frustrated closeted bisexual - only knows his own. It is one of the focal points of his universe.
But thinking about it I’ve come to suspect that he isn’t necessarily trying to impress anyone when he posts that photo. He really thinks that is what is valued about him. Hence all the money that is spent on worthless herbal enlargement pills and phalloplasty.
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Very true, I suspect, that straight men have few comparisons to make with their own penis. I certainly know that I have never seen another womans genitalia in the flesh and I am skeptical about the ones I see in photos given the enthusiasm with which they are airbrushed. Perhaps this indicates a similar reason for all the explicit photos of women on their blogs.
I was recently told about an exhibition in the UK of models of rock stars penis’(what is the plural?). The viewer of them was struck by how similar they all were too his own. Indicating to me both his relief and lack of previous exposure to other men.
While I identify as straight, I’m not freaked out by others’ penii. Being involved in the public bdsm community, I see all sorts of genitalia fairly regularly. It’s not a big deal.
But there are always the types who are kind of skittish about other guys’ equipment, and it makes me laugh. “AAAAAAAA IT’S A PENIS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!” I think it’s partially due to the expectation by society that men be manly-man lumberjack types; they’re probably afraid of being seen as less manly, less attractive, if they in some way acknowledge someone else’s hardware.
Right before I saw your comment I was looking at an ad for a gay porn site Straight Hell … somehow all this connects in my mind.
My business partner and our clerk are heterosexual. Recently I bought and we’ve been selling a bunch of Colt Studios stuff: nude photos of big, muscular gay porn stars. The guys I work with don’t blink, make stupid jokes. They just accept it as they do the books of poetry and the rock CDs. The penises bother them not a particle.
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