This Week in Sex: The Gay Video Conservatives Are Obsessed With
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Conservative group obsessed with gay sex video
Remember that Ugandan minister whose anti-gay video made it around the internet a few months ago? Infamous for the regrettable line, “Eat da poo poo”? It was some intense homophobia, wrapped in a preacher’s fascination with gay porn, wrapped in a viral video. Well, this kind of reminds me of that.
A conservative group is up in arms about an amateur video of gay sex at Texas A&M that features sex therapist Cay Crow giving advice on "butt play" and some pseudo-NSFW footage.
Now, I say "pseudo," because the footage in question is little more than a prostate exam — it shows a gloved finger being inserting into someone's nether regions, from an angle that barely results in visible penetration. Still, this hasn't stopped people from flying off the handle about the clip while at the same time breathlessly circulating it.
The Texas Aggie Conservatives are the ones doing most of the leg work, though, as member Justin Pulliam reveals, they seem to have little understanding of college life in general, much less homosexuality.
"Most people at the university do not agree with having casual sex, or homosexual sex, or having sex outside of marriage," he claims. Now, although Texas A&M is ranked #17 on the Princeton Review's LGBT Unfriendly list, I highly doubt that a majority of students on any college campus, even a highly conservative one, disapprove of casual or pre-marital sex.
So even though it's a relatively vanilla sexual maneuver (as far as butt play is concerned), and one that even has its place in heterosexual intercourse, the conservatives are agitated and really, really fascinated by it — but if it's so disgusting, why does everybody have to see it?
The group's website features an embedded version of the clip (that they edited and produced!) with the disclaimer that it's "probably too sick for any sane person to watch," which you would think disqualifies the whole group that just spent hours editing it from any kind of judgment.
Commentarium (22 Comments)
What's all that crap about the British being repressed? we're not in the fucking Victorian era sitting giggling at each others ankles.
And that 9% might mean something if it was given some context, where the hell this statistic came from and how high it is in other countries. On it's own it's just trivial.
I though the same, on both counts (I'm not British). I think it's unfair to compare 1970s Britain with modern Britain. My mother's credit card was cancelled in the 70s when she was married because now that she had a husband "she didn't need it anymore" according the credit card company. Not to say a cancelled credit card is anywhere near as abominable as administering a virginity test, but the point is those were different times. Yes, it's shocking considering it wasn't that long ago, though still absurd to make the comparison. I would also be surprised to find out that the majority of the actual British population both knew and supported this "testing", so again unfair to attack them with stereotypes. As for the 9%, I would love to see how that compares to the rest of Europe (or the rest of the world for that matter). I'm going to guess it's on the low end of the [questionable] statistics ladder. Personally I'm appalled at the name-calling in this article.
PS - The thought of sitting around giggling at one another's ankles made me giggle.
"I highly doubt that a majority of students on any college campus, even a highly conservative one, disapprove of casual or pre-marital sex."
Definitely false. Students at BYU would disapprove of casual or pre-marital sex by an overwhelming margin.
Mormons! HA. I think he meant a normal college campus.
I graduated from Texas A&M University. That kid needs to get out more because there is as much sex going on all around him as any other university. The conservative nutcases are very vocal on that campus, but hardly speak for the student body in general. I dated an RA whose job description included giving out condoms in emergencies. His supply was always running out.
I am inspired to explore the idea of "condom emergencies"...
BTW, here here on ER's comment. The British are not the stereotypes we see in movies. In my experience British men are the opposite of sexually repressed.
who wrote this? sounds like it was written by someone barely literate in english.
I really cannot stand the constant heavy-handed labelling going on throughout this piece. Xenophobic/ Christian nut-case/ repressed and hypocritical Brits... It's oh-so depressing to hear such a negative, judgemental tone. Some maturity, please.
Like a couple of other comments on here I just wanted to say that it's not the first time I've read an article calling the British repressed and it's as far from true as you can get. Everyone here (expect some religious types) is having sex, and they are all open about it.
Perhaps they worked the other way. That is they were checking to see that married immigrants were not virgins. This isn't any nicer but it is more logical. I can imagine our own INS getting ideas from these disclosures.
To me, it seems more likely that this came out of some fear/hysteria that the women were contriving stories about arranged marriages to circumvent British immigration policy. If women coming in to get married were "supposed" to be virgins and NOT pregnant, you can see some asshole gov't official deciding that a vaginal exam might be a good way to catch those who are lying about the whole arranged marriage bit. I seriously doubt the test was ever conceived as a way of keeping out "immoral ladies" as the writer suggests was surely the case. Just to be clear, I agree that this is reprehensible, I just don't think Hooksexup touches on any relevant points.
I don't the history of Asian immigrants to Britain, but in the US at least, Asian women immigrants were mostly sex slaves and prostitutes at first and among the yellow fear was the fear of "immoral ladies".
Yeah, total misunderstanding of the virginity test story.
It was nothing to do with morality. It was to check if they were already married are therfore breaching immigration rules. A quick google will show you.
Still totally appalling, mind!
Oh, and I think it also stumbles on the different meaning Britain and the US attach to the word "Asian".
When we say it we mean "from the Indian subcontinent".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't our colonial cousins in the States understand it to mean "from South East Asia or China"?
Superior thinking deonmstrtead above. Thanks!
Very true! Makes a chgnae to see someone spell it out like that. :)
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