How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization - Cathy Crimmins [39]
The taboo aspect of anal sex between a man and a woman has made it a popular heterosexual porn subject for years. But recently the idea of a man penetrating a woman’s anus is becoming more “normal” or mainstream. Two heterosexual male pornographers, Buttman (John Staggliano) and Seymore Butts (Adam Glasser), have done the most to focus on the female rear end in their pornographic video businesses. Between them they’ve sold hundreds of thousands of titles such as Where the Sun Don’t Shine, Tushy Tahitian Style, Wise Crack, and International Tushy. Adam Glasser has even been the focus of a reality series on Showtime, Family Business, in which he’s depicted as a small-time businessman who just happens to shoot films about anal sex and female ejaculation.
Now the anal “craze,” if you want to call it that, is going into a new phase. The final anal frontier is being broached by heterosexual men. More and more straight men are discovering the joys of prostate stimulation, and are asking for help in learning how to get stimulated.
The Bend Over, Boyfriend videotape series has sold thousands of copies via the Internet and heterosexual sex-toy catalogs. Conceived, written, and produced by women, the tapes feature Dr. Carol Queen and her boyfriend showing heterosexual America how a gal can penetrate her man with a strap-on dildo.
Anal sex toys are now popular in straight markets, too. A gay male friend was the first person to tell me about the Aneros. “You should check this out,” he said, “because it’s being sold mostly to straight guys.”
The Aneros is a plastic shoehorn-like insert that fits snugly into the anus and presses on the prostate, enhancing the male orgasm. Grant Stoddard, the heterosexual “science” columnist for the erotic online magazine Nerve, was assigned to experiment with the Aneros, and despite being terrified beforehand, gave the device a glowing review after getting off to a rocky start:
But after a while, I lost patience with the instruction manual—which read like an unabridged copy of the Talmud—and I decided to go with my instincts and what I’d gleaned from the website. The idea is that with some practice, you can reach orgasm just by squeezing your sphincter, without even touching your penis.
After about ten minutes of serious squeezing, I was totally tuckered out and starting to feel a bit silly, what with the toy’s handle protruding like an albino ram’s horn from between my cheeks. I admitted defeat and rolled onto my back to bang one out in the old-school fashion. Lying on my back must have shifted the position of the toy, because I almost dropped sauce immediately and had to concentrate hard not to. When I came shortly thereafter, the feeling was much more intense than normal.
The Aneros website is chock-full of delighted testimonials from heterosexual men. Most of them repeatedly emphasize how cool their wives think the Aneros is, and how virile they are within their romantic, heterosexual relationships.
Congratulations, heterosexuals! You’ve been touched by an anal. And you should thank gay men for bringing up the subject.
Book Three
Soul
Chapter 7
Movies: My Favorite Things
Because I just went gay all of a sudden!
—Cary Grant as paleontologist David Huxley in Bringing Up Baby, explaining why he is wearing a pink-feathered negligee
Thanks to the silver screen, your neurosis has got style.
—Donald in The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley
Queers are just better! I’d be so proud if you was a fag and had a nice beautician boyfriend. . . . I worry that you’ll work in an office, have children, celebrate wedding anniversaries. The world of a heterosexual is a sick and boring life.
—Aunt Ida (Edith Massey) in John Waters’s Female Trouble
Come out, come out, wherever you are . . .
—Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz
Gay men have always been enthusiastic cineastes,