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Scholars in Bondage: Camille Paglia On How Dogma Dominates Studies Of Kink

By Mark Adnum / Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

The recent call to ban Routledge’s new Porn Studies Journal — a petition with almost 1,000 names, many of them PhD students and their teachers — showed just how polluted and irrelevant much of the academic world has become. Quasi-religious atmospheres of anti-learning have attracted dogmatic activists rather than enterprising thinkers, who avoid or have abandoned universities in their droves.

Guys I Wanted To Fuck In High School, Part 4. (Senior Year)

By Conner Habib / Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Guys I Wanted To Fuck in High School is a series of short essays about growing up frustrated in small-town Pennsylvania. (This is the last entry in the series, and wil be followed up later this year with a series of limited edition print chapbooks, each with a different cover by a different artist.) View other entries in the series, and this original print, at my blog.

THE INNER CIRCLE: FACELIFT, BETTER

By An Unpaid Intern / Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Have you seen the Inner Circle lately? Our member’s area is still stuffed full of the best gay porn, but all our theatres (there’s dozens of them) now have a much more intuitive layout. You can search inside each theatre and every scene has preview thumbnails and text summaries, so you can zap to exactly what’s going to get you off.

The Sexy Kaleidoscope of Shungaboy

By Mark Adnum / Monday, May 20th, 2013

The artist Shungaboy creates gorgeous paintings that celebrate male beauty and the thrill of desire. Inspired by the different kinds of men that he meets in real life, his work is a joyous combination of fantasy and the everyday. There’s something riotously real in the paintings, with a bonus throwback to an aesthetic of another time with sailors, boxers and what looks to be a slinky hustler here and there.

How To Have Sex In An Epidemic: 30 Years On

By Mark Adnum / Saturday, May 18th, 2013

I think it’s very disappointing that this week’s 30th anniversary of the publication of How To Have Sex In An Epidemic is not only going unnoticed by almost every single gay media outlet online and off, but that the anniversary takes place in an atmosphere where many gay men celebrate what seems to me to be a passionate ignorance about the fact that HIV exists and that bottoming with multiple partners but no condoms is the very thing that is perpetuating an epidemic that need not continue.

INNER CIRCLE THEATRES UPDATED FOR TABLETS AND PHONES

By Mark Adnum / Friday, May 17th, 2013

Check out the new look of the Inner Circle Theatres! Far nicer, with a cleaner layout that provides nice matchbox size images of every scene so you can find exactly what you want. Now compatible with all mobile hardware such as tablets and phones. Behold the gay porn magnificence.

Gay Porn With Polish: Q & A With Michael Lucas

By Mark Adnum / Thursday, May 16th, 2013

Michael Lucas is the founder of Lucas Entertainment. Born in Russia and based in New York City he directs, produces and performs in superlative gay porn films, many set in gorgeous locations all over the world. Also a passionate critic and activist, Michael Lucas isn’t guided by dogma and is equally forthright about the things some gay men choose to do, as well as some of the things they have done to them.

Sounding: Ouch!

By Mark Adnum / Thursday, May 16th, 2013

I remember having a swab once. She used a Q-tip and only dipped it a half-inch into the eye of my penis and it was easily the most painful medical experience I have ever been through. So, I don’t really have a huge urge to try sounding, where pipes, pens and chains are inserted into the urethra. But some guys like it, and who am I to judge?