The Other Closet

MAN SEX, MASTURBATION, SOCIETY

Men like having sex together. I guess there are women who like having sex together too, but I don’t care about that. I only care about man sex. Sex between men. Men masturbating together. Men masturbating each other and enjoying each other. Men connecting and enjoying contact with each other. Masturbation. Making out. Cock sucking.

I like the idea of men bonding with each other through sex. Sex enhancing friendship. Sex as a way to make friends. Making friends through sex. It happens all the time, and it has happened for all time. Whether or not to enshrine homosexuality as a cultural phenomenon, an institution, is an issue. Whether to honor homosexual activity and the friendships that evolve from it is an issue that society has struggled with for several recent decades. Homosexual acts and associations tend historically to be secret, disguised, dishonest. Tradition, religion, culture, and family used to discourage homosexual acts and relationships. It appears now, in our post-modern culture, that society and its institutions embrace, defend, and promote a kind of homosexual presence and sub-culture. Homosexuality is still the other, but it is now the precious, acceptable other. It has been relegated to the storehouse of humane, liberal causes. Homosexuals have become just one more group to feel sorry for. Homosexuals came out of their own traditional, historical closet only to be ushered into the crowded closet of liberal special interests. Society, though more benign, is still playing games with homosexual men and women. Homosexuality is OK in the post-modern millennium, as long as it conforms to liberal biases and expectations.