MAGA broke Grindr... Again...
MAGA broke Grindr... Again...
“How do you know you don’t like fucking men? Have you tried it? I know I’m super duper straight because I fuck a guy every week just to make sure I still don’t like it.”
Watching them process that is wild.
Love that the two of you answered this at the same exact minute
What’s a switch then, or am i just hallucinating new terms here?
Switch is going between Dom and sub. Like being Dom top to sub top or sub bottom to Dom bottom.
Typically a Dom bottom is called a power bottom and a Dom top could call himself a Dom top or power top.
Love that the two of you answered this at the same exact minute
What’s a switch then, or am i just hallucinating new terms here?
In addition to the other informative answers, the “serious” reply to the first question would be “no, not really”. I’ll summon up a “Tales of Time Forgotten” blog post on the matter, as best as I understand it, with the recommendation to read the original if you can.
The difficulty with understanding Ancient Greek sexuality from our modern perspective is that they didn’t strictly think in two genders so much as a scale of masculinity, or something close to it. Accordingly, sexuality wasn’t thought of in terms of hetero- or homo-, but as an act of the less masculine party receiving the more masculine one. The expectation then was that your role and choice of partners would evolve throughout our life and progress along the expected social hierarchy.
An adolescent boy in his mid-to-late-teens (~14-18) was expected to be courted by young men (in their twenties) and eventually choose a lover (although suitors did have to work for it and being “easy” was shameful).
It’s worth noting that there was a distinction between (adolescent) boys/girls and children, which were off limits. Obviously, adolescents are still vulnerable and the whole thing is still messed up by most modern western standards. “Not quite as bad” is still bad.
Eventually, they’d reach adulthood and thus become (young) men themselves and were expected to strive and even compete for the affections of boys.
In their late twenties to early thirties, men were expected to proceed to mature adulthood, losing interest in boys and seeking a girl to marry instead (with much of the same expectations as before, though arrangement of marriages typically gave girls much less choice).
Any significant deviation from that expected course would, of course, be considered shameful. There might have been some leeway on the age brackets, but the “direction” of the age dynamic was quite firm, and men seeking out or receiving other men was seen as unnatural and effeminate.
Female sexuality is much less well-attested, just as women in general are less “visible” in most sources, and somewhat contradictory. On one hand, Sappho of Lesbos achieved quite a reputation, but she was writing ~500 BCE. On the other, some sources written in the first and second century CE strongly condemn it. One woman is criticised for loving boys, which would fit with the expectation that both women and boys were to “receive” men.
This might have been a shift over time, but the scarcity of evidence makes it hard to pin it to that cause alone.
On the whole, it’s pretty clear that a male vers would not have been “fine” by any standard. Men were to be tops, boys to be bottoms and mature adults were to be interested in girls and women alone.
The ancient Greeks have a longstanding reputation in modern culture for their alleged tolerance of homosexuality—a reputation that has been so thoroughly ingrained that a common euphemism for the word homosexuality itself is “Greek love.” Additionally, the modern English word lesbian, referring to a female homosexual, comes directly from the name of a Greek island … Continue reading "Just How Gay Were the Ancient Greeks Really?"
Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?
Don’t worry, I brought protection to keep it from being gay.
pulls out a package of new socks
A Republican manufacturer running for governor in Wisconsin as a conservative supporter of “family values” and President Donald Trump followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that Bill Berrien, the CEO of Pindel Global Precision and one of two announced 2026 Republican candidates for governor, unfollowed several accounts in recent days after the newspaper asked about the matter.
A Republican manufacturer running for governor in Wisconsin as a conservative supporter of “family values” and President Donald Trump followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that Bill Berrien unfollowed several of the writers in recent days after the newspaper asked about them. Berrien is one of two announced 2026 Republican candidates for governor. He downplayed any concerns about his online activity, calling it “some stupid articles I read years ago.” In a post on X, he derided the story as “garbage political hits.”
If you are confident with your sexuality, why would it bother you what others do? It is not like it can switch who you are attracted to.
The only exception I see are the people who got convinced that gays can influence that their kids will be gays. That’s a bit harder to convince it is a bullshit.
convinced that gays can influence that their kids will be gays
if that’s how it works, then just influence your kid to be straight again, problem solved.
Think about how often a preacher is caught with a guy, that preacher is usually one of the more hateful ones.
(I’m not referring to Catholics here, they’ve to get their house in order and stop protecting monsters. )
Self-loathing bisexuals.
“If I can choose not to be gay, so can you.”