The Huge Rise In Gay Scat Porn 3

The Sub-Cultural And Societal Issues

3.   The (Uncontrolled..?) Proliferation Of Gay Scat Sites
4.   Freedom Of Expression Or Sick And Depraved....?


3.   The (Uncontrolled..?) Proliferation Of Gay Scat Sites

Like other porn, gay scat sites fall into 2 categories:

• paid subscription sites; and
• free user-generated sites;

How They Proliferate

1.   From our clumsy observations, the proliferation appears to be on the free user generated sites hosted by a third party.  Essentially a person starts a thread uploading pics and vids. Then he invites others to subscribe to his site and submit their contributions.  The site mushrooms and by sheer force of viewer numbers, signs of approval, reciprocal postings and cross referrals, the original user generated site plus the associated user generated sites within "the network", individually and collectively rocket to Pages 1 and 2 of a Google search. And stay there. They leverage off each other. It's impressive.


Shutting Them Down

2.   There's also a (s)cat and mouse game. The third party's terms of use for a user-generated site officially prohibit sexually explicit material. Often a site will disappear, having been shut down, or, the person who started the site will direct viewers to an alternative site sometimes with a less obvious title.  In more devious instances, the apparently user-generated site is in fact a loss leader with free content, effectively a shop front to a paid subscription site.

3.   Where porn is concerned, never under-estimate the tenacity of either a business or a user-generated site.  They are like shops that make counterfeit brand name goods.  As soon as one is shut down, another one pops up - usually under the same ownership.


4.   Freedom Of Expression Or Sick And Depraved.....?

The Popularity Of Extreme

1.  Other than describing them as extreme, (the sites even do that for you) we don't know where we stand on the issue of gay scat porn sites.  Their popularity is undeniable, even if their content is controversial. We suspect popularity and controversy are linked - with large doses of curiosity thrown in from those in a holding pattern looking for the right play partners, or from those who get a vicarious thrill from gay scat porn, but would never do it.


Addiction To Porn A Sickness.....?

2.  It appears to have been gay men who coined the Politically Correct term "recreational drug user".  It was neuro-scientists who coined the term "online porn addiction". When the two clash, there's no happy medium and denial plays a large role in it too. Porn allegedly operates in the same way as a drug. Both alter brain chemistry and behaviour. In other words, one needs more and more of it, just to get the same high.  Scientists have pointed out that the increase in online porn addiction (in heteros and homos) means that viewers are consistently hunting for progressively more extreme porn just to get the same sexual satisfaction.  So is viewing extreme gay porn a sickness.....?  Possibly.


Porn Selfies

3.  What about those who upload images of themselves in gay scat porn.....?  They've taken a leaf out of the usual social media sites (which sociologists claim attract the insecure, the narcissistic, those seeking validation or those bragging to spice up an otherwise mundane life)  and taken it to a whole new extreme level. Some would argue a level of unnecessary and unhealthy depravity.  These are the guys who blatantly walk the talk, with very clear (sometimes too clear) face and body pics.  These are also the guys who encourage their viewers to post their pics on other sites and explicitly offer themselves as available for blackmail - some going so far as to disclose their real names, contact details and place of employment.  Depraved....? Decide for yourselves.


Suppression Of Personal Freedoms And The Rise Of Extreme Porn

4.  There appears to be something else that we suspect is propelling the popularity of extreme gay porn. In the series, The Zombies 2015 - 2017, we referred to the suppression of personal freedoms and civil liberties in the West.  The circumstantial evidence is clear that a dystopian Orwellian society is deliberately taking shape in the West.  Whether it succeeds is another matter.

5. The suppression of personal freedoms and civil liberties together with chronic surveillance has profound political, sociological and psychological results.  Specifically, it creates the mentality of a victim, a faceless statistic, a disposable human drone, a slave.

6.  It's like trapping an animal in a corner and watching its every move.  At first, the animal cowers and appears submissive. Then without warning it unleashes itself full force on those seeking to restrict it.  Its response is unpredictable and extreme.....anything to get its freedom.....

7.  So too, the proliferation of extreme gay porn can be seen in the context of incrementally suppressed personal freedoms, particularly in the West.  These sites represent an absolutely in-your-face response to perceived ham-fisted attempts to control the minutiae of human behaviour.  Not only does it trigger a visceral response, but it goes viral very quickly.  And before you know it, more extreme gay porn sites have sprung up. That triggers the circle of suppression and extreme response.


Coming Up In Part 4:

5.  Faggotry's Dilemma
6.  Condemnation And Censorship Or Tolerance And Diversity.....?

Originally published 21 January 2016
Republished 29 April 2016

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The Huge Rise In Gay Scat Porn 2

The Sub-Cultural And Societal Issues

2.   Why Are So Many Gay Men Into Scat?

1.   Let's get one thing clear.  The fetish for scat and scat porn is not limited to gay men.  It's huge with str8s too and annoyingly easy to run into online, even with seemingly innocent search parameters.

Image taken by FuelMix 28 April 2016, Taste Supermarket.  No copyright claimed.

The Visceral Reaction:  An Immediate Yes Or No

2.   For gay men, scat and scat porn is either met with immediate revulsion or a dark and inexplicable knowing of immediate magnetism.  Like moths to a flame, instinct propels them towards it. They may, or may not, be able to articulate its attraction.  It may be a combination of breaking the (seemingly) ultimate social and sexual taboo with a self-confessed affirmation of having found their sexual niche.

 3.   Online, there are no shortage of stories and personal experiences of how gay men got into scat. For some it appears to have been a secret childhood fascination, or it may have been a drunken curiosity of Truth or Dare, or some element of teenage sexual domination or submission, or a later episode of casual man-to-man sex where scat took place without warning (with or without consent) - all of it culminating with an epiphany that from that day forward, both they and their sexual preferences were forever changed.  In other words, they were hooked - sexually and emotionally. Their viewing of gay scat porn is basically a holding pattern until they find the real thing.


Who's Into It Now 

4.   Historically (and purely unscientifically) it would appear that gay scat was the exclusive territory of older, chubby guys or the leather S&M daddy with the handlebar moustache. There was nothing particularly erotic about it and that genre still continues.

5.   But now, they've got company.  It's surprising how many twinks, 20 something muscle jocks and 30 something athletic types claim online to be into it - or at the very least claim to be totally open minded to it. They are either hooked vicariously on the videos and pics proliferating in cyber, or claim to be actively searching for an eater or a feeder.  For the younger ones, the combination of youth, looks, muscle worship and intense domination of a sub (from whom they might demand or receive voluntary payment and gifts) as well as regular servicing, is a major draw. (We'll ignore the necessity of repaying their student loans).

6.  If there wasn't a demand for gay scat, male escorts advertising online would not even need to mention it.  But they do, either negatively or affirmatively, with correspondingly higher hourly rates.  If they don't explicitly state it, it's alluded to by way of a willingness to answer "special requests".

The Split Personality

7.   If there's one over-arching feature of gay men into scat who've posted their experiences online (and they seem remarkably willing to share) it is the careful honing of a double persona......one is the well groomed, business-travelling Armani suited executive.......the other is either the gym-built, bubble butt Top with one or more regular worshiping subs...........or the cocaine-slamming, poppers-inhaling "worthless" fag sub begging to service. Either way, it's a power - and drug - trip of immense proportions.  One completely dominates, one completely surrenders.


The Health Risks

8.  The health risks are potentially Massive. But that doesn't stop the diehard participants from dispensing online advice in dedicated forums geared to risk-reduction for the newbie and the pro. We don't know what to make of it. The health advice seems to be a combination of prescription and non-prescription medication, scientific and biological data and home remedies rumoured to work.  Sort of like a Community Medicine Practice - only without a license.

9.  And nobody has satisfactorily explained just how one goes about telling one's doctor......

Coming Up In Part 3:

3.  The (Uncontrolled..?) Proliferation Of Gay Scat Sites 
4.  Freedom Of Expression Or Sick And Depraved.....?

Originally published 21 January 2016
Republished 29 April 2016

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The Huge Rise In Gay Scat Porn 1

The Sub-Cultural And Societal Issues

1.   Confronting "It".....Intelligently  
2.   Why Are So Many Gay Men Into Scat..?
3.   The (Uncontrolled..?) Proliferation Of Gay Scat Sites
4.   Freedom Of Expression Or Sick And Depraved.....?
5.   Faggotry's Dilemma 
6.   Condemnation And Censorship Or Tolerance And Diversity.....?


1.   Confronting "It".....Intelligently

Best as we can tell, there are 3 main topics that make gay men nervous:

• Gay Scat Porn;
• Gay Subliminal Porn;
• Gay Devil Worship and Satanic Porn;

Whether it's denial, fear, loathing or ignorance, these subjects exist in real time and in cyber. In fact, they are proliferating in cyber.  They represent the very extreme limits of "the gay lifestyle". We suspect that the numbers of men involved in one or more of them is much higher than anybody would guess.

Constructing an intelligent narrative that confronts the denial, fear, loathing and ignorance that surrounds these subjects is not for the faint-hearted or the easily terrified. The proclivities not only reside deep in the psyches of the individuals who engage in such practices, but reflect what's happening in the very deepest sub-basement of the gay sub-culture.  It's the elevator ride to the very depths.  We're armed and loaded.......




Coming Up In Part 2:  Why Are So Many Gay Men Into Scat.....?

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Gay Blackmail In Hong Kong 5

Received from a reader today (underlining by FuelMix):

Some valuable observations and thoughts in this series of posts. I always hide my kitchen knife (the most dangerous item in my room) when I go out, because I might bring someone back. I usually leave my wallet with a counted small amount of money, let's say 9 x 100 Baht notes, in my room with my guest while I shower alone, and after our encounter count again.

"Why The Gay Saunas Win Most Of The Time " deserves a separate post. Two additional items:

Customers don't use cosmetics in a sauna. Cosmetics is a turn-off for me. I once had a boy who would get up in the morning and then spend half an hour in the bathroom. Means I have to wait half an hour for sex, and then lick and kiss all this stuff off his skin.

There is little talk in saunas. When I observe Thai boys in gay discos in Bangkok, I am often put off by their foul language. 

Unfortunately, for me there is a list of negatives as long, but still saunas beat disco or online.

FuelMix says:

1. OK, OK...we'll republish "Why Gay Saunas Win Most Of The Time" as a separate post. 
2. You haven't witnessed our local Chinese boys and their cosmetics ritual in the saunas have you..?? **snicker**

Alexander Sauna 34

1st Floor, Wing Cheong Building
404 Reclamation Street
Mong Kok
Kowloon
Hong Kong  
MTR: Mong Kok Station, Exit E 1  
Tel: 2148 0400

Open 24 hours
Staff speak good English



Sunday afternoon around 5pm, FuelMix was shopping and scoping deep within the packed streets and alleys of Mong Kok. Idly slurping a glass of fresh sugar cane juice and surveying the surging throng, he felt a tap on his shoulder and wheeled around.  One of his friendly GAM Throats-On-The-Street was grinning at him......

GAMTOTS:  Waaah..!!  FuelMix aaahh..!!  Wha' you thooin heaaa...??  Why you come to Mong Kok..??

FM:  Shopping....Look around....I like Mong Kok, it is real Hong Kong.

GAMTOTS:  Aaiiiyah... so kwowded toooday...so hot too...you go saunah..?

FM:  No not today, just shopping, looking around

GAMTOTS:  Aahh.... come on...!! Handsome boy..!!  When you go saunah, evewwy boy chase you....I know....I see you lah..!!  Toooday day off.....have fun lah...!

FM:  Why don't you have fun today...?

GAMTOTS:  I just finish Alexandah....wah..!!  so bad toooday...

FM:  What happened..?

GAMTOTS:  Many, many fat peeeple..!! sohh fat ah....and soh ugree..!!  I don' low why so many fat ugree peeeple come today....Aaiiiyah.....evewwy ware in Alexandah...all fat, fat peeeple....soh ugree too.  I feel soh sad.  No action, no fun for me.  I go.

FM:  That's too bad. Maybe you went too early.  I haven't been to Alexander for a long time.  Not very sexy place now.  Too many Mainland Chinese for me.

GAMTOTS:  Yyeeesss...not vewwy sexy prace now....becoz evewwy one soh fat and soh ugree..!!

FM:   Maybe change your times, see what happens.

GAMTOTS: But I don' like Mainland Chinese also....always so rude and not clean.

FM:  Yeah, they're everywhere now

GAMTOTS:  OK....I go Langham Place Sopping Mall....Level 5 and Level 6 maybe more fun.

FM:  Shopping..??

GAMTOTS:  No lah..!!  Toilet.  Level 5 and Level 6.  Vewwy kwoozy ah....you don' low..??**

• Readers may submit reviews of gay saunas in any Asian city;
• We reserve the right NOT to publish reviews we deem suspicious, inaccurate or self-serving;
• FuelMix no longer gives personalized sauna advice; 

**  We are simply reporting the conversation.  We do not encourage any form of public illegal behaviour.

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ABC Sauna 27

6/F Cheong Hing Building, 

72 Nathan Road, 

Tsim Sha Tsui, 

Kowloon, Hong Kong
MTR: Tsim Sha Tsui Station, Exit A 2

Tel: 2301 - 4500
Note: NOT open 24 hours. 
Opening times 2pm to 1am.  Call to confirm.
Staff speak good English.




In our post, Frustration and Trends dated 22 February 2013, we said this:

....4.   Expect more ex-European Union types falling over themselves to get here. 

5.   Noticed the number of Russian tourists wandering the streets of Very Rich Megacity? Everything gay is illegal in Russia.  Here's a prediction........it's only a matter of time before Russian guys start showing up at the gay saunas in VRM.  You read it here first.  This blog is already being read in Russia. 

6.   FuelMix is still waiting for the majority of his readers to twig that the gay sauna reviews are as anthropological as they are anatomical.

FYI fag.....

• More Europeans showing up at ABC;
• The Russians have arrived in ABC; 
• (By way of correction, we said above that everything gay is illegal in Russia.  That is not true.  There are gay bars, dance clubs and saunas operating. Have a look here.)

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• We reserve the right NOT to publish reviews we deem suspicious, inaccurate or self-serving;
• FuelMix no longer gives personalized sauna advice; 

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Origin Of The Gay Porn Soundtrack 5

7.  Patrick Cowley And Gay Porn Soundtracks

1.   In 1979, Cowley was approached by John Coletti, owner of the gay porn company, Fox Studio, that was based in Los Angeles.  Coletti had heard about him from Sylvester and asked Cowley to compose the soundtracks to some of his gay porn films. Cowley submitted his college compositions from the 1970s. According to a YouTube commentary by Dark Entries Records, Coletti used a variable speed oscillator to adjust the pitch and speed of the tracks to synchronize them with the porn scenes.

2.   The result was Cowley's music was used on early 1980s Fox's gay porn films like School Daze and Muscle Up.  Here's an example of the porn track, "Mockingbird Dream" from Muscle Up:




3.   Here is another example entitled, "Runner Man" from the Fox porn film, Afternooners, which also contains a montage of Cowley and gay San Francisco of the late 1970s and early 1980s:




4.   In October 2013, to mark what would have been Cowley's 63rd birthday, Dark Entries released a double LP entitled "School Daze", showcasing the music from the porn film School Daze. These are restored productions of tracks that were found on tape reels in storage at Fox Studios.

5.   In October 2015, Dark Entries released Muscle Up, another collection of Cowley's gay porn tracks.  One of the tracks is "Somebody To Love". According to YouTube comments, the blond guy in the porn film is Patrick Cowley.  If true, Cowley was also a composer and part-time porn star. Check out the brazen popper usage as well:

 


6.  The final sample is "Nightcrawler" from the porn film "School Daze", with a scene from "Bore And Stroke":




8.  Conclusion

1.   In this series, we only scratched the surface in describing the talent and work of Patrick Cowley.  Much more can be found on YouTube. A gay pioneer, he led the development of music across different genres from Disco, HiNRG, Electronica and Trance.  Undoubtedly, he originated the hypnotic (and addictive) electronic ambience of a gay porn soundtrack which keeps the viewer glued to the screen.  The fortuitous discovery of many of his reels of electronica in Fox Studios and Megatone Records, plus the work of companies like Dark Entries Records and Honey Soundsystem have ensured that Cowley's legacy lives on.

2.   Cowley died in San Francisco at the age of 32.  He was one of the earliest casualties of AIDS, at a time when it did not have an official name.  His illness was diagnosed as food poisoning and he was sent home after the doctors said there was nothing more they could do.

3.  The best news is that more gay men, cultural historians, music historians, gay porn afficionados, and electronic music enthusiasts are learning about this genius.

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Action Sauna 18

1/F Overseas Building,
417 - 421 Hennessy Road
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong
MTR:  Causeway Bay, Exit B

Telephone: 2893 7027

Note:   

• NOT open 24 hours, except on Saturdays
• Call to confirm opening times. 
• Staff speak English.
• Entry price apparently cheaper than Alexander and Gateway. But check. 

Saturday evening and FuelMix finished his shopping in Causeway Bay. He had an early dinner of Japanese beef curry with rice and hot udon noodles with vegetables.  Or perhaps it was a snack. He might eat again, who knew.  Flipping through his Diary, FuelMix realized it had been 25 weeks - nearly 6 months - since he'd last dropped into Action.

So.....in he went at 6:30pm.

"Waaahhh...!!!" squealed the tired-looking Chinese attendant behind the counter, with 2 very effeminate scowling Oriental staff on either side of him, "Long time no see ahh....handsome boy..!! Why you not come for such long time..?" 

"Nǐ hǎo.....Wǒ máng gōngzuò", replied FuelMix politely in Mandarin.

"Many people here for yooo tooooday...have fun ah..!!"

FuelMix pushed open the door and was taken aback....the place was certainly full of people.  It was also full of something else...

CALORIES......

Yes fags, the premises were (over)loaded with Fat And Fugly GAMs. Everywhere one looked there was another yellow blimp lumbering along.  

FuelMix sighed in disappointment.....6 months absence and he had showed up in great anticipation early on a Saturday evening. Maybe too early, maybe too much anticipation.

"You know...", said a really skinny GAM who sidled up to FuelMix,  "you and I are the only ones here who aren't fat...I think early Saturday evenings to I dunno, maybe 11pm, is happy hour for fat guys...what do you think..?"

We both sighed.

FuelMix left at 9pm.


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2.  FuelMix no longer gives personalized sauna advice; 

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Origin Of The Gay Porn Soundtrack 4

4.   Who Was Patrick Cowley (1950 - 1982)...?

1.   Patrick Cowley was born in Buffalo, New York and at the age of  21, moved to San Francisco.  He studied Music at the City College of San Francisco, specializing in the use of synthesizers.  When studying there...

"..... he was already gleaning musical inspiration from electronic-music pioneers as diverse as Wendy Carlos and Giorgio Moroder. During his studies at City College of San Francisco, he used the school's electronic equipment to synthesize these influences into a project called the Electronic Music Lab. While drifting from advertising-like jingles into more experimental styles, he also modified and built his own analog equipment, which he combined with classic instrumentation to produce what would eventually come to be known as the "San Francisco sound."

---Money Shots - Five Things You Need To Know About Gay Electronic Wizard Patrick Cowley, XLR8R, October 22, 2013

5.   Sylvester And The Rise Of Patrick Cowley 

1.   "Cowley's growing reputation as a local electronic wiz kid began attracting major up-and-coming disco acts. One of these acts was Sylvester, a former member of notorious acid-dropping SF performance troupe the Cockettes, who had maintained a glamorous, androgynous persona to go with his soaring falsetto voice."

 --- -Money Shots - Five Things You Need To Know About Gay Electronic Wizard Patrick Cowley, XLR8R, October 22, 2013

image from Wikipedia

2.   " Cowley met San Francisco-based musician Sylvester in the late 1970s. Sylvester had asked Cowley to join his studio band after hearing some of his early synthesizer recordings. He played synthesizer on Sylvester's 1978 album Step II which included the hits "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" and "Dance (Disco Heat)". In addition he wrote "Stars" and "I Need Somebody To Love Tonight" from his 1979 album Stars. Cowley also joined Sylvester's live band and joined him on several world tours.

---Wikipedia, "Patrick Cowley"

6.   Patrick Cowley And HiNRG Dance Music

1.   While disco music was established in the 1970s, the gay danceclubs in San Francisco became the cutting edge of its evolving sound from the late 1970s into the early 1980s. This sound was heavier and faster, even frenetic.  This was known as  HiNRG and Cowley was deeply involved in its development.  By the early 1980s, HiNRG was being played not only in the danceclubs, but in the gay saunas of San Francisco.  As a resident of San Francisco, Cowley was a frequent visitor to the gay saunas.  His sexual encounters with other men, provided more musical inspiration.  In 1981, Cowley launched Megatone Records, that became synonymous with the HiNRG sound:

Cowley's own hits included "Menergy" in 1981, a frank celebration of the gay club scene, and "Megatron Man", which hit #1 and #2 respectively on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1981. That same year, Patrick Cowley became the DJ at the "Menergy" parties at The EndUp in San Francisco. He also wrote and produced the dance single "Right on Target" for San Francisco artist Paul Parker, which also reached #1 on the Billboard dance chart in 1982. A collaboration with Sylvester, "Do Ya Wanna Funk", made #4 on the Billboard dance chart that same year. Cowley also did a 15'45" long remix of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love", which is now a collector's item."

---Wikipedia, "Patrick Cowley"

2.   Readers will now understand why we featured (the very gay and very talented) Sylvester's iconic, "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" as the introduction to this series in Part 1.


COMING UP IN PART 5:  
7.  Patrick Cowley And Gay Porn Soundtracks

After Healing, Bless Your Scars

In Here And Hereafter 2, we said this:

"2.   Fags and Dignity

Fags constantly clamour for dignity only to degrade each other - whether online or to their face, or behind their backs. How many little deaths must a fag endure in his “community”? Is his buffed bod just an armor plating for a whimpering spirit cowering in the recesses of a wounded psyche?  

An outrageous claim fags make is that they are a “community”. That’s a lie. A “community” implies cohesion. How can there be cohesion when the community consists of so many individually wounded, fractured psyches? FuelMix has often been left speechless at the numbers of deeply lonely, fundamentally unhappy fags, some quite young, for whom living in Fagland (either as a postal code or a state of mind) is a daily accumulation of financial, social and emotional degradation culminating in a fundamental lack of self-worth."


And then, we spotted this.....
Underlining and bold print by FuelMix:

Every wound leaves a physical scar that is different in appearance from your normal skin. It is a lasting reminder that there was once a broken place there which is now healed. Every emotional wound also creates a scar, one that is invisible in the physical world, but very real in the emotional and energetic reality. While physical scars no longer hurt, emotional scars do and they can either be lasting reminders of your pain or confirmations of your healing, growth, and transformation. After healing, bless your scars so their message is one of positive, loving acknowledgement of your transition into wholeness and that your healing is truly complete.

Physical scars are created by the body to replace the skin that has been damaged and they do not look like regular skin. The wound has forever changed the body’s integrity and the scar is a reminder of that healing that occurred there. It brings the skin into wholeness but not by creating an environment that is wound free. Emotional and energetic scars are a similar reminder of a wound that has forever changed the integrity of the energy and emotions in a situation, and within your life path, and they also remind you that this was a place for healing and confirm that healing has occurred.

Scars return the physical, energetic, and emotional bodies into wholeness but not by creating something that allows you to forget that the wound happened. Instead, they remind you that there was once a wound that has now healed so you use the energy of the wound as a source of information. Without the memory of the wound, which created by the scar, it would be easy to repeat lessons again and again because there would be no reminder of the lesson. With the scar there is a permanent reminder of the healing that has been achieved, and by blessing the scar you integrate its lessons that you no longer have to repeat.

Healing and wholeness cannot occur without scars because you require reminders of your journey. But scars are a blessing, not a punishment, as they confirm wholeness and integrity, but not by returning your physical, emotional, and energetic body to your pre-wound condition. Wounds are confirmation of your willingness to fulfill your soul mission and risk being hurt; scars confirm that you were hurt but you have healed and are now re-covered in new levels of understanding.

If you try to heal by not getting wounded, you will never be willing to risk the fullness of any lesson because they all have the potential for wounding. If you see the scars of confirmations of the wounds instead of the healing and return to wholeness, you will see them as a reminder of the pain and forget that they are a sign of your wholeness and new levels of integration.

Bless your scars, all of them, because they represent steps on your journey that you had the courage to take and the strength to overcome. Every lesson will create wounds, places where your lessons were not easily mastered and every wound has a scar, which is a lasting reminder of the battles you have won, and the new levels of understanding you have arrived at victoriously.


---"After Healing, Bless Your Scars" February 24 2016, Copyright (c) 2016 by Jennifer Hoffman. All rights reserved.  You may quote, translate, reprint or refer to this message if you mention the author name and include a working link to:  http://enlighteninglife.com

Origin Of The Gay Porn Soundtrack 3

3.  The Castro:  The Rise Of A Gay Community

Side Headings, underlining, highlighting, bold print and paragraph numberings by FuelMix: 

San Francisco And The Castro 

1.   Homosexuals across America consider San Francisco a "Gay Mecca" thanks to the rise of the distinctive gay community, primarily in the Castro District centered at the intersection of Castro and 18th Streets, a block from upper Market Street. Some estimate that there are as many as 100,000 gay men and lesbians in San Francisco, out of a total population of approximately 750,000. 

2.   The Castro wasn't always a gay neighborhood. Until the early 1960s it was primarily white working-class, predominantly of Irish descent, and better known as "Eureka Valley." But as the post-WWII trend of white flight to the suburbs drew more and more older San Franciscan families out, new groups moved in behind them. In most U.S. cities, such in-migration was typically that of ethnic minorities, mostly blacks, Latinos and Asians. This was also true in San Francisco, but thanks to several coincidences, SF also became home to thousands of gays, and the Castro is the district in which they decided to spend their money, put down roots and make a home. 


The Whore-And-Porn Reputation Of San Francisco

3.   The city was always known for its relatively libertine attitudes towards sex and pleasure. The Barbary Coast and the waterfront brought together travelers, sailors, transients and others in casual encounters far from the prevailing rules "back home." Hundreds of houses of prostitution flourished from the Gold Rush through the early 20th century, followed decades later by the rise of topless bars and strip joints, and the pornographic film industry (The Mitchell Brothers being the best known), all contributing to a sexual openness that gave San Francisco a reputation directly challenging the sexual repressiveness that prevailed in the rest of the country. This in turn made San Francisco an attractive destination for those deemed "outlaws" by the dominant morals of society. 


San Francisco:  Where Gay Men Found Each Other Easily

4.   World War II provided a big impetus for the development of San Francisco's gay community. One and a half million soldiers, 10%+ of which were homosexual, were able to find each other more easily in the marginal districts of San Francisco. Thousands were discharged by the military for homosexuality and were released in San Francisco. Rather than returning to the hinterlands in which they would be stigmatized, many stayed on and after the war they were joined by thousands more who had discovered new identities in the crucible of war.......


The Beat Culture, The Gay Bars, The Gay Saunas

5.   During the 1950s San Francisco also spawned the Beat Culture which shared spaces and attitudes with the incipient gay culture......... The beats expressed a basic rejection of American middle class values, especially the family and suburbanism, which coincided closely with early gay attitudes. Of course, it can be argued that a good deal of gay culture tries to emulate middle class America and its values, helping homosexuality to become more mainstream and less stigmatized. Bars and nightclubs in North Beach and the Tenderloin became important sources of cross-pollination and expansion. 

6.   In 1962 police and alcohol control board harassment led to the establishment of the Tavern Guild, consisting of the owners of primarily gay and bohemian establishments. The Guild became the first overtly gay business association and provided one of the first organizational backbones of the gay community. Earlier, in 1955, the Mattachine Society (one of the first ever gay organizations) had moved its headquarters from Los Angeles to San Francisco and eventually spawned The Advocate, the nation's first gay magazine. 

7.   When it finally closed in 1963, The Black Cat [a gay bar] had broken the barriers that prevented overtly gay bars from existing freely. A 1951 California Supreme Court decision banned the closing down of a bar simply because homosexuals were the usual customers. Manuel Castells convincingly argues in The Grassroots and the City that The Black Cat had also established an important cultural precedent for the gay community: fun and humor. As the community developed, feasts, celebrations, street parties, public and private bars, and bathhouses and sex clubs, became the important forms of cultural expression and sociability, which in turn strongly influenced other communities in San Francisco and beyond. The element of immediate pleasure and fun that gays strove to establish in their daily lives found an emphatic echo and expansion in the hippie movement of the 1960s. The anti-war and counter-culture movements in general provided a relatively pro-pleasure climate for gays.


Gay Organizations And Gay Politics In San Francisco
 
8.   In 1969 there were 50 gay organizations. The famous Stonewall Riot in New York City in June 1969, led to an explosion of gay consciousness and self-organization. By 1973 there were over 800 organizations. Gay bars grew from 58 in 1969 to 234 in 1980. By organizing socially, culturally, and politically, the gay community came into its own in the 1970s. Its best known hero was Harvey Milk, a former camera store owner who used aggressive door-to-door (and bar-to-bar, corner-to-corner) populist organizing techniques to get elected to the city's Board of Supervisors. In fact, his election coincided with the establishment of a new coalition of progressive community organizations that together established a district election system in place of the downtown dominated at-large system, a victory which followed by two years the election of liberal state Senator George Moscone as mayor in 1975. 


9.   The upsurge of anti-gay, homophobic feelings in the United States came to San Francisco, too. In 1978, an ultra-conservative state senator put on the statewide ballot the Briggs Initiative, intended to ban gays from teaching in the public schools. With the energetic participation of Milk and thousands of newly self-empowered gay activists, Briggs was defeated by a sound majority. Not long after the election, a disgruntled conservative ex-cop who had recently resigned his seat on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Dan White, entered City Hall through a side door (one which lacked a metal detector) and murdered Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk. When Dan White was given a virtual slap on the wrist for this cold-blooded murder in a jury trial (the verdict of voluntary manslaughter was handed down on May 21, 1979) one of the biggest riots in SF history exploded in the Civic Center Plaza, known as the White Night Riot.

10.   As Fienstein proceeded with the downtown expansion plans and put community initiatives on hold, gays fragmented along various lines. Under Reagan many conservative assumptions were adapted to, and gay politics became more an interest group and less a progressive agenda. Perhaps the class divisions among gays eroded the earlier Milk/Harry Britt tradition of gay leftism. The AIDS crisis struck in the early 1980s, with thousands of San Francisco's most creative, intelligent and exciting people perishing in the epidemic. Gay politics became very focused on getting resources dedicated to the AIDS situation, or more practically, on the creation of an astounding network of self-help organizations.........

---"The Castro: The Rise of a Gay Community", by Chris Carlsson, 1995 Found SF,  http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Castro:_The_Rise_of_a_Gay_Community


COMING UP IN PART 4:  
 4.  Who Was Patrick Cowley..?

Origin Of The Gay Porn Soundtrack 2

1.   San Francisco In The 1970s

1.  San Francisco in the 1970s was a global hub of culture. It was known worldwide for hippies and radicals. The city was heavily affected by drugs, prostitution and crime. Outcasts and the socially marginalized were attracted by a greater tolerance and acceptability of multi-cultures in the city. It grew as one of world's biggest centres for the LGBT community and LGBT rights........ The rock music known as the San Francisco Sound was performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in the city at the time.

2.  San Francisco was the cradle of the pornography industry in the United States in the 1970s, and led to a dramatic growth of seedy gentleman's clubs, adult movie theatres, peep show booths and sex shops downtown. Many skyscrapers were built in the city during this period. The city is also associated with West Coast Jazz and was one of the major centers of jazz fusion which took off in the 70s.

---from Wikipedia,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_in_the_1970s


2.   Examples Of The San Francisco Sound

"The San Francisco Sound refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based rock groups of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It was associated with the counterculture community in San Francisco during these years". 

---from Wikipedia, San Francisco Sound

• Credence Clearwater Revival
• Jefferson Airplane
• Grateful Dead
• Santana
• Sly And The Family Stone
• Steve Miller Band 
• The Doobie Brothers
• Tower Of Power 

COMING UP IN PART 3: The Castro:  The Rise Of A Gay Community

Fucked Up Fags In Canada

We've said before that Vancouver is a text book example of a dying gay ecosystem and we've analyzed its degeneration in considerable detail in the Gay Vancouver series.

From our actual observations, we maintain that fags in Vancouver are absolutely fucked up in more ways than one. But don't just take our word for it.  "Experts" are now saying fucked-up fags are a Canada-wide phenomenon....

From the Abstract published in the American Journal of Public Health, January 16, 2016: (Underlining and bold print by FuelMix):

Objectives. To investigate the prevalence and co-occurrence of heavy drinking, anxiety, and mood disorders among Canadians who self-identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual.

Methods. Pooled data from the 2007 to 2012 cycles of the Canadian Community Health Survey (n = 222 548) were used to fit logistic regression models controlling for sociodemographic characteristics.

Results. In adjusted logistic regression models, gay or lesbian respondents had greater odds than heterosexual respondents of reporting anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety–mood disorders. Bisexual respondents had greater odds of reporting anxiety disorders, mood disorders, anxiety–mood disorders, and heavy drinking. Gay or lesbian and bisexual respondents had greater odds than heterosexuals of reporting co-occurring anxiety or mood disorders and heavy drinking. The highest rates of disorders were observed among bisexual respondents, with nearly quadruple the rates of anxiety, mood, and combined anxiety and mood disorders relative to heterosexuals and approximately twice the rates of gay or lesbian respondents.

Conclusions. Members of sexual minority groups in Canada, in particular those self-identifying as bisexual, experience disproportionate rates of anxiety and mood disorders, heavy drinking, and co-occurring disorders. (Am J Public Health.

Published online ahead of print March 17, 2016: e1–e7. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303083)

Read More: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303083

If readers only trust their own kind, they can get the story from Gay Times, "Gay Canadians face higher rates of mental health issues", Gay Times 19 March 2016

So there it is......we're sure the nice people who put the stats together meant well.  But we can't help but detect a teeny-weeny bit of Political Correctness, an annoying sugary trait for which Canadians are as renowned as for their other sugary trait, maple syrup.

What appears to be glaringly missing from explicit mention in  the study is......DRUGS....and specifically, a fag's propensity to show up at the Weed, Crystal Meth, Cocaine and Amphetamine Buffet.  And in Canada - particularly the West Coast thereof - that combination of Socio-Liberal-Facist, Politically Correct, Entitlement Mentality leads to many fags using that quaint self-description of "recreational drug user".

We've said several times in this blog that there ain't no such thing. A "recreational drug user" is just a euphemism for "part time addict".

Since drugs alter brain chemistry, it's hardly surprising that Canadian fags are reporting anxiety and mood disorders.

Further, we've also said that Faggotry is a global sub-standard behavioural franchise. In other words, just like the ubiquitous burger franchise, what occurs in one place is mirrored half way around the world.  Drugs are an entrenched, yet tragic, feature of Faggotry wherever one looks.  The reality of the Canadian study is that it would probably be mirrored in any Fagland (remember, our definition of "Fagland" is a postal code and/or a state of mind).

Advocates of Pride talk about gay men being free to be who they are. If the Canadian study is any guide, gay men who are free to fuck themselves up mentally and emotionally (via heavy drinking, drugs, anxiety and mood disorders, all of which are inter-related)  don't appear to be too thrilled with it.

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Origin Of The Gay Porn Soundtrack 1

DISCO > HiNRG > ELECTRONICA > TRANCE 

A fascinating look at the origin of the gay porn soundtrack - and the gay man responsible for its creation PLUS whom he worked with.  A Celebration of Legacy, of a story not that widely known.  Although it should be.......

A new series starting on Fuel Injected Male.

My Way Sauna 13

4th Floor, Kuo Wah Building
340 Hennessy Road
Wanchai
Hong Kong

MTR: Wanchai, Exit A4
Telephone: 25749098
Website: http://www.mywayjungle.com/ 

Note:
1.  My Way Sauna and Jungle Sauna are under the same ownership;
2.  Staff may or may not speak passable English;
3.  All prices and promotions are in Chinese on their website;
4.  My Way Sauna and Jungle Sauna are open 24 hours; 



Thursday evening at MyWay 8pm - 11pm.  Packed and naked but...

In My Way Sauna 12, we said word was out that good looking guys showed up there.  We'd also been hearing it from our friendly-GAM-throats-on the street whining, "Oh FuelMix, YOU should go to My Way.... ALL the good looking guys show up there..."

OK, so after a respectable gap of 9 weeks, FuelMix showed up again. Thursday evenings are Nude Nites and the place gets filled from about 6pm onwards when the office boys adjourn.  There's no shortage of GAM guys coming through the door.  And get this.....they come in all ages.  More on that below.

Were they good looking..?  Some had pleasant faces and slim or gymmish bods, but the majority were NOT. And that was just the twinks and other 20 to 30 somethings. That was kinda shocking. Did we pick the wrong day and the wrong time..?  Had the skinny Fuglies come to My Way..??  Oh yeah.

But even more shocking was the HUGE number of Fugly GAM Chubs - some over 6 feet tall.  We rubbed our eyes in disbelief.....fuckin' Chubs...??!!  And Fugly ones..??!!  In My Way..??!!  FuelMix was momentarily speechless.  It was like spotting a Yeti....you'll know exactly what it is when you see one, but you'll be damned if you can describe it.

But there they were, padding down the corridors, frightening everyone.

For those who didn't know, there is a tanning bed in My Way. It's in the TV room discretely hidden behind a painted wall. There is a coin-operated timer.  Bring your own tanning lotion. We've noticed GAMs actively embracing fake tans in places like My Way, Alexander, ABC and Action.  Some of them are very dark and when in a swimming pool or on the street, look like pieces of shit.  That combination of a yellow skin tone and dark brown Coppertone.....you'll see what we mean.

Oh yeah... we said that the guys come in all ages.  There were some GAM guys in there with impressive gym bods whom we suspect were in their mid 40s or older.  Why do we say that..?  Because when we spotted them in My Way 9 weeks ago, they had GREY hair.  But there they were posing and jacked up  on attitude - with a full head of JET BLACK hair..!! BBWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....!!  Yup.....anything to fit in and delay the ageing process.  Everyone knows that gay men die at 35.  'Coz y'all seen  the ads on Grindr, Scruff and Craigslist....."No one over 35"  Riiiight...??

And the Stand And Model..?  The head swivel to look away as you pass by..?  Oh it's there. Big Time. For all it's logistical advantages, the customer attitude in My Way can either drive one to violence or cascading fits of giggles.  Some customers take themselves waaay too seriously.  To wit, chink is standing under a shower, does a rejection head swivel and covers his crotch with both hands for the duration of his shower.

The attitude of the Management is completely friendly.  The attitude of the customers is another matter.  It's a peculiar form of denial.  They will unashamedly reject a person on visual contact, but will grope, kiss and suck en masse in the very darkest parts of the Dark Area, where the huddle includes the very same person they rejected.  Go figure.

The attitude and the rejections in My Way are offset by the voyeurism. If 2 or more guys enter a room and lock the door, don't assume they're making out.  On more than one occasion as we wandered through the Dark Area,  one of them unlocked the door and stepped out, leaving the other(s) looking sheepish, as they clung to the partition to check out the action in the next room.

How else do we know..??  FuelMix was sitting on a guy's face getting his ass eaten out really well....when 3 chink faces hovered above the partition, illuminated by the purple glow of the dimmer lights. It was a tad surreal.  FuelMix wanted to fart with laughter, but that might have been inconvenient to his service provider.

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