[lit-ideas] Re: Correction and Weight Watchers (1974)
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 10:14:02 -0400
And, for the record, it isn't just "gay porn" that I find trashy. I find
all "porn" trashy.
Amusing as hell, but nevertheless trashy.
Erin
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From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> In my opinion, when it comes to "gay porn", all of it is trashy. Trashy
is
> a universal characteristic of what I would qualify as "gay porn" and my
use
> of the word did was not meant to imply that there was an alternative such
as
> classy. And I didn't mean domestic strippers (though I couldn't fathom
> there being many imports), I meant domestic beer. It was the domestic
beer
> that was overpriced. I have no idea how much the strippers were. We just
> went for a laugh.
>
> Erin
>
>
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> From: "andy amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 9:56 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Correction and Weight Watchers (1974)
>
>
> > You wrote
> > That one was shown to me by my friend Alex, last night, when we were
> drinking
> > six packs in the gay bookstore where he used to be employed, flipping
> through
> > trashy gay porn,
> >
> >
> > A.A. What is trashy gay porn? Presumably if there is trashy porn, then
> there is classy porn, straight or gay, correct? Does perfectly shaped
> genitalia make classy porn, or is it perhaps the absence of certain
> elements?
> >
> >
> > Erin: and preparing for our excursion to the Brass Rail, a strip
> > club down the road with over priced domestic and bad uncoordinated
> strippers
> > with stupid names like "Star". All in typical Friday,
> >
> >
> > A.A. Interesting. What are domestic strippers, and, since vendors
charge
> what the market will bare, uh, bear, in what way are these strippers
> overpriced?
> >
> > As I said in an earlier post, I never particularly cared about
> homosexuality, but lately it seems to be everywhere. One thing I noticed
is
> that gay guys have an aura around them of perpetual adolescence. I'm
almost
> tempted to think they shave their legs, especially if they're going to be
> wearing skirts. I know drag is popular among gays. So are gay men really
> men or are they wanna be women who are in a sense attracted to the
opposite
> sex, which is to say, to men?
> >
> > My outsider's perspective also tells me that getting old for gay men is
> harder than for straight men. Youth and the body beautiful are highly
> prized in the gay community, echoing the way neurotic straight men dump
> their mates for younger women. Since we all lose our charms in the end,
is
> the gay lifestyle really so gay? I have also read that domestic violence
is
> a serious problem in the gay community, so gayness doesn't necessarily (or
> perhaps even usually) bring bonded bliss.
> >
> > Regarding Jullie Krueger's idea that girls like gays on dates because
> there's no pressure to have sex with them, perhaps its the gays who like
the
> girls on dates. Gays, to my knowledge, live for sex, which they have
almost
> compulsively with other men. Does this beg the question that when sex is
so
> all pervasive with a compulsive edge to it, is it really fun? And what is
> someone who routinely reads porn really reading, since porn is basically
the
> same thing over and over.
> >
> >
> > A.A.
> >
> >
> >
> > Erin
> >
> >
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