I was just reminded of an incident while reading this entry on the Three Angry Guys site.
Jason wrote about a female performance artist who stripped naked at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the "adventure" that ensued. I was feeling sorry for myself having not been there to see such an uninhibited act, and I was reminded of a time when I went with a Japanese photographer friend to a gay nightclub in Vancouver. It started off being nothing special... a typical visit to a gay club (except for the fact that this Japanese girl was not typical in that she danced right away without having to get drunk to do it) with the usual sorts hanging out, dancing and scoping the place for that one special boy to take home.
It got really crowded after a while making it both difficult to dance and wander around or sit and drink but our attention turned to this very fit young man with those black biking shorts who began dancing on a speaker. It turned out that he was paid to dance there which makes sense. Neither of us could shake the feeling that he had a sock or two shoved down the front of his shorts because surely he couldn't be THAT big. We thought it must have been for dramatic effect but later discovered, after he had removed those biking shorts that it was no optical illusion. Even I had a hard time believing it but my friend summed it up in her own words as we left that night. She simply said "Thank you" and then "I never expected in my life to see something like that in anything but photos."
We never spoke of it again but I thought of it today after my post earlier.
Which is mainly because I wondered whether gay and straight men have this issue in common. I imagine that they would think about for different reasons but surely there is some sort of mental comparison. Kind of like the way women strive for some sort of ideal...
What do you say? Care to share your thoughts on this one?
Jason wrote about a female performance artist who stripped naked at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the "adventure" that ensued. I was feeling sorry for myself having not been there to see such an uninhibited act, and I was reminded of a time when I went with a Japanese photographer friend to a gay nightclub in Vancouver. It started off being nothing special... a typical visit to a gay club (except for the fact that this Japanese girl was not typical in that she danced right away without having to get drunk to do it) with the usual sorts hanging out, dancing and scoping the place for that one special boy to take home.
It got really crowded after a while making it both difficult to dance and wander around or sit and drink but our attention turned to this very fit young man with those black biking shorts who began dancing on a speaker. It turned out that he was paid to dance there which makes sense. Neither of us could shake the feeling that he had a sock or two shoved down the front of his shorts because surely he couldn't be THAT big. We thought it must have been for dramatic effect but later discovered, after he had removed those biking shorts that it was no optical illusion. Even I had a hard time believing it but my friend summed it up in her own words as we left that night. She simply said "Thank you" and then "I never expected in my life to see something like that in anything but photos."
We never spoke of it again but I thought of it today after my post earlier.
Which is mainly because I wondered whether gay and straight men have this issue in common. I imagine that they would think about for different reasons but surely there is some sort of mental comparison. Kind of like the way women strive for some sort of ideal...
What do you say? Care to share your thoughts on this one?
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