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Gay-for-Pay Away: Bad Behavior, Confirmation Bias, and the Blame Game (opens the original)
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Gay-for-pay is having another moment.Depending on how long it takes me to publish this, some of the stories that inspired this essay may already be old news. Such is life in the age of TikTok, X, OnlyFans, and 24-hour outrage cycles.Recently, adult creator Jake Andrich, better known as Jakipz, faced backlash after saying he didn’t “particularly” support the LGBTQ+ community. It was an interesting (read: asinine) thing to say when a sizeable portion of your audience consists
Falling Forward: Marching Toward New Terrain (opens the original)
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Last month, I lost Jack, my 20-year-old cat. If you’ve followed Str8 No Chaser for a while, you may have heard me refer to Jack as my co-writer and moral support. He was there through long hours and nights of researching, writing, refining, and finalizing several essays. He’d curl up next to me, well past midnight, often until the sun came up.Twenty years is a long time to share a life, so Jack’s absence has required some adjusting. Even now, as I write this, I’m in my bedroom because the living
Black Men in Gay Erotica: The Physique Era (opens the original)
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Military Trade: The Marine Who Fixed Hollywood (opens the original)
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In January 1942, an 18-year-old farm boy from Illinois boarded a train for California. His mother tearfully objected when he announced he was joining the Marines. He went anyway. Pearl Harbor was barely a month behind them, patriotism swept through the country, and he and his best friend wanted in on the action. It was the enlistee’s first time away from home. But San Diego awaited along with twelve weeks of recruit training and a war whose scale none of them could have predicted.At five foot te
Soldier as Fantasy: The Physique Era (opens the original)
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Servicemen have long occupied a formative space in gay erotica, decades before military-themed hardcore content. During the physique era, soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen appeared consistently in still photography that promoted strength, discipline, youth, beauty, and virility. And for many gay men, these images became a defining visual language of desire.It was no accident that military men became so prominent in physique imagery. World War II marked the first time millions of young men w
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