Some news items you might have missed: • Reddit: Redditors share their stories of coming out to family & friends only to hear, “I know, and….?” Trust me, my besties knew before I did… Continue reading “Coming Out When They Already Knew + More News”
Reddit: ‘Heartstopper’ Bittersweet For Some Gays
Queerty highlighted a thread on Reddit from a couple of months ago that asked if some gays were left a bit bittersweet after watching the acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series Heartstopper. Continue reading “Reddit: ‘Heartstopper’ Bittersweet For Some Gays”
Reddit: ‘The Unspoken Rules Every Gay Guy Should Know’

News Round-Up: March 29, 2022

News Round-Up: January 17, 2022
Some news items you might have missed: • Reddit: A gay Redditor went to meet a date (who he met online) at a boba shop, but ‘Mr. Wrong’ silently left after texting the Redditor telling him he was too short. Continue reading “News Round-Up: January 17, 2022”
Question: What Was Your First Boyfriend Like?
A recent thread on Reddit’s AskGayBros asked the group’s 300k members to chime in about their first relationship: “What was your first boyfriend like?” Continue reading “Question: What Was Your First Boyfriend Like?”
Reddit Thread Shares This Specific Sleep Trick For Guys
A recent thread on Reddit asked gay men if they also do this one particular thing to help them fall asleep at night. Continue reading “Reddit Thread Shares This Specific Sleep Trick For Guys”
Reddit asks ‘What’s The Worst Sex-Ed Advice You Got In School?’

• “Don’t have sex or your penis will fall off.”
• “If you have sex, you will get gonorrhea, and you will die.”
• “Haha, we had an hour and a half long lecture about abstinence, in high school.”
• “Virginity is like a handkerchief. If you let some boy sneeze in it, do you think anyone else would want to use it?”
Of course, masturbation was a big topic:
• “Masturbation elongates your penis. Half of my class was just tugging their slugs for the rest of that afternoon.”
• “When I was homeschooled, my mom told me that masturbating caused cancer because you’d be too aggressive to your ballsack due to ‘the motion.’ I feel bad for my father now.”
• “In seventh grade we had a speaker come talk to the whole school in the auditorium. This motherf**ker told us that if we pleasured ourselves, we were statistically much more likely to be rapists and pedophiles. Every guy in that room including myself felt instantly ashamed. F**k that guy.”
Condom use was addressed from several angles:
• “Condoms are worthless so don’t bother.”
• “Wrap it twice, just as nice.”
• “What you do is you put one on and then ad hot-sauce and then put on the other one. You will notice if one of them breaks.”
Not quite advice, but one Redditor did share a fascinating sex ed ‘factoid’ we’ve never heard:
• “My sex ed teacher told us, ‘Ejaculate is the whitest substance on Earth.'”
Several remembered getting a sex ed/morality lesson using two pieces of tape, like this one:
• “My teacher took two pieces of tape and stuck them to her sleeves. She would then peel them off and re-stick them to her sleeves getting the backside of the tape more linty each time. She said that the pieces of tape were people and every time she put them on her sleeve it represented them having sex with a different person. Eventually, when she put them together, they didn’t stick very well from all shirt fibers and this meant they were so emotionally disconnected they couldn’t form a lasting bond. So don’t have sex or you’ll be a broken shell of a person unable to love.”
And then there are these random thoughts:
• “They didn’t tell us u need to use lube. They just said it’ll work out some way. Fun story: I’m gay sooooooo yeah, that hurt… Like, really really bad.”
• “That lubricants are not needed ‘if the man is doing his job right.'”
• “Not school but my mom told me that anal could get somebody pregnant. But since I’m gay this doesn’t matter.”
• “I was homeschooled. All my dad told me was “you stick it in, you jizz, then it’s over..” Thanks, dad.”
• “It was unsolicited sex advice from a psych TA. ‘Don’t go into dark alleys because you WILL end up having sex in there.’ With whom? No freaking idea. Maybe the weird alley sex goblins.”
• “We were told that a wet dream produced an amount of fluid tantamount to wetting the bed. They didn’t even tell us what fluid it was.”
• “That men had to be circumcised before having sex or the foreskin would rip, leading to all kinds of infections, permanent injury, or even death.”
• “‘Men are completely incapable of controlling themselves.’ Made it sound to everyone like we had no control over our bodies, thoughts, or actions, and that we spray urine and semen at everything that crosses our path.”
Click over to the AskReddit thread for more nuggets of sex-ed here.
Advice: Boyfriend Won’t Wash Properly Because Touching Himself Is ‘Gay?’
A recent post on Reddit asked for advice about a boyfriend who refused to rub-a-dub-dub ‘down there’ because ‘no homo.’ The thread got so much attention the moderators actually removed the original message and locked down the comments. A woman asked what she could do to encourage her 24-year-old boyfriend to have better personal hygiene. Apparently, when she addressed the issue (which came up after they became intimate), “He explained that he doesn’t touch himself there, ever, because it’s gay.” “He thinks washing his penis would be gay,” she continued. “What the hell. In fact, he thinks any touching of anything between his legs is gay.” It seems the most attention his nether regions get is water running down his body during a shower. “This was completely ridiculous and I started asking him what about masturbating?” added the poster. “What about wiping after he poops?” Apparently, the boyfriend explained he gave up on self-love long ago as it began to make him feel ‘weird.’ And he uses a bidet instead of wiping after taking a number two. The poster shared that the boyfriend feels “any contact a guy has with the male ass or pubic areas is in a gay realm.” Even when she tried to tell him that touching his own body wasn’t ‘gay’ (“gay involves other people!”), he was unmoved. 
Some wondered about the logistics of how a guy relieves himself without touching: “How does he pee without touching his dick? I’m imagining a huge mess.” Another logistic question came up about the reality of having sex – apparently, he doesn’t touch his penis then either. The original poster, when asked, added, “I didn’t want to get too graphic but yes the times we’ve had sex he has asked me to position him and also to put on the condom.” Several comments suggested he might need a date with a doctor for a ‘hygiene intervention.’ Many felt the clue phone was ringing, and she might want to answer: “I feel like the fact that he doesn’t wash or touch his own genital area (as genuinely disturbing as that is) is unfortunately only the tip of the iceberg with this whole thing.” What do you think, readers? Is this just an OCD thing? Childhood trauma? When it comes to hygiene, have you ever had to bring up the issue with a partner? Tell us what you think in the comments section. You can read the 1.7K responses over on Reddit here.
#FlashBackFriday – Appreciating David Beckham’s Big, Beautiful…Watch

backside watch. How did I miss this??? The pic of Beckham’s “watch” went viral when an eagle-eyed fan zoomed in on the legendary footballer’s timepiece from Tudor Watches. It turns out the 44-year-old is an ambassador for the brand and wears their Black Bay Bronze diver’s watch. But in close-up, many found something much more interesting to focus on.
The meme is fun, but so are the comments by the thirsty Redditors. Here are just some of the comments from the gays of Reddit showing their appreciation for Beckham’s big, fat, wonderful ‘watch:’ “He has such a nice…watch.” “I need to do things to that watch.” “I want to eat that watch.” “It’s a very form-fitting watch.” “The watch was literally the last thing I noticed.” “What watch?” “Goddamn, he’s got a watch you could bounce a quarter off of. That watch is so nice I wouldn’t mind adjusting it a little bit, and I’m a complete bottom.” But the winner for best response just might have to be: “Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.” And while we’re here, let’s take a quick trip through some of dashing David’s Instagram for some holiday inspiration and woofy goodness. Happy Friday!