Heteroflexible

...orientation may not be a choice, but sexual identity is. The more closely a person’s professed sexual identity reflects his behavior, and the more closely his behavior reflects his desires, the less fucked-up and conflicted he’s likely to be. So if a guy is attracted to men and women equally, and he sleeps with both men and women, and he falls in love with men and women, he should identify as bisexual, since the bisexual label most accurately describes who he is and what his partners can expect from him. If a guy’s sexual and emotional desires are overwhelmingly hetero, on the other hand, but he likes to suck cock once in a great while, then identifying as bisexual is rather misleading. A guy who’s exclusively into women emotionally and 95 percent into women sexually probably shouldn’t tell anyone he’s bi. Better he should round himself up to 100 percent hetero in casual conversations and tell people he’s straight–not because it’s convenient or safer in the closet, or because Dan Savage doesn’t think bisexuals exist. (Believe me, they do, and I’m going to hear from them this week.) No, he should tell people he’s straight because “straight” most accurately describes who he is. See how that works? Your most recent column is the first I’ve heard about straight guys wanting to get blowjobs from other guys. I have to question if there are really as many gay-curious straight men as you suggest. Speaking as a straight male, I don’t want a guy to suck my cock, and it strikes me as odd that I’d be in the minority with my “no man-on-man cocksucking, please” stance as a straight man. Anyway, love the column. Insert Clever Descriptive Pseudonym Here Ahem. The straight guys whose letters you object to, ICDPH, weren’t looking for some guy to suck their cocks. Quite the contrary: They wanted to suck cock themselves. Most straight men who wanna have a homosexual experience wanna suck dick and get fucked, probably because those acts violate every straight man’s it’s-an-exit-not-an-entry, silly-faggot-dicks-are-for-chicks, no-way-dude taboos–and violating taboos, as any Catholic priest can tell you, is hot, hot, hot. As for your other concerns, WBCS and other straight-identified guys who fantasize about sucking cock represent a small minority of straight men, and nothing I’ve ever written could be interpreted as implying otherwise. I do get a lot of mail from straight guys who wanna suck cock, as I said in my column, but I recognize that my sample is skewed. Straight guys curious about sucking cock are more likely to write me than Abigail “Call the Cops” Van Buren. A permissive gay male advice columnist is a better bet for sympathetic cocksucking advice and/or the website address of particularly hot male escorts. (Here are few: www.davidinseattle.com, www.dannyjock.com, www.bitesizedblond.com.) But while my sample is skewed, I don’t think the phenomenon of straight male wannabe cocksuckers is as rare as you and other insecure straight men would like to believe. According to the authors of Sex In America, a book based on a groundbreaking sex study conducted by the University of Chicago in the early 1990s, while just 2.8 percent of American men identified as gay, almost 10 percent of men have had a homosexual experience. That means almost seven percent of the “straight” men in America have sucked a little cock–and that was back in 1992, before heteroflexibility came into vogue. By no means are cocksucking straight guys the majority, ICDPH, but there would appear to be millions of straight male cocksuckers out there–and not just wannabes, mind you, but havedones. Do you have any idea what it is about cocksucking that seems appealing to so many otherwise “straight” guys? Help Us, My Mentor, Explain Random Solicitudes Heterosexual men become aroused when researchers show them films of other men’s hard cocks, HUMMERS, which explains why there’s so much cock in porn produced for straight men. It stands to reason that a small number of cock-obsessed straight men might let their obsessions get the better of them and take a walk on the wild side. Some advice for WBCS from a straight guy who was once in his shoes: 1. Do it. 2. Do it safely. Trust me: Crabs suck, and they’re the least of your worries. And don’t do it behind a significant other’s back. That’s neither safe nor fair. 3. Can’t find a partner? The Internet is a bi-curious guy’s best friend. Online you’re almost guaranteed to meet someone you wouldn’t normally come into contact with, so discretion becomes a lot easier. Sucked A Few Cocks And Lived To Tell About It Glad to hear there are so many guys like me out there–essentially straight men who like to suck cock. My solution to the safe vs. discreet dilemma was to find married guys like myself who were looking for the same thing. WBCS should find a man who likes to get off with a guy a COUPLE times a year, and make him your cocksucking buddy. Happily Married Cocksucker Thanks for sharing, SAFCALTTAI and HMC. I have been totally confused about where my love life is going. I consider myself to be gay, but just two weeks ago I met a girl, and it was love at first sight. I have been putting off asking her out on a “date” because I don’t want to hurt her to satisfy my curiosity about heterosexual sex. I’m deeply confused about this. What should I do? Gay And Confused Hey, maybe you’re bi. If so, buy yourself some Peruvian drawstring pants, a beret, and a Guatemalan handbag. Once you’re bisexually attired, sit down and write an angry letter to any snarky gay advice columnist who dares to perpetuate the myth of bisexual fashion disasters. Once that’s done, TELL THIS GIRL YOU WANNA FUCK HER. Share your inner conflict with her (women dig that inner conflict shit), and see what she says. If she says yes, FUCK HER, if she says no, go find some nice boy to fuck until you feel like your old faggot-assed self again. Next week in Savage Love: Letters from red-blooded American straight boys who wanna fuck women, eat pussy, drink beer, and watch girl-on-girl porn. mail@savagelove.net