Hey,
Thanks, Beth, for the clip - very interesting!
One thing that I appreciate about Sha's interviews - and the things some of our favourite models have shared here on the board - is that a great many of our favourite models have been pretty open with their g/f's, that
Broke Straight Boys is a way of supplementing their income, which really doesn't impact on their orientation, or the people they *love*, in a *romantic* way.
One of the things that vexes me the most about gay chat-boards (though this comes up very seldom on THIS chat-board, because I think most of the members here are pretty well-informed about things like this): is the claim that, "Oh well, so-and-so has just done X, or Y, or Z, with a GUY: so he
must be secretly gay". And, of course, that's the prejudice that that Jerry Springer episode was playing off. (Which is kind of a tragedy for the couples concerned, because, it is JUST a prejudice.)
I could sleep with a hundred girls, three hundred times in a row - and I guess even enjoy it to some extent, if it made them smile and feel good and feel HAPPY - because those are natural human physical feelings, that come from the sexual experience, if the partners are friendly, in tune, and know how to "press the right buttons". It could even be a lot of fun! But, it still wouldn't make me straight! Because (I think, anyway) sexual orientation is about the good physical feelings of sex, and the feelings that are deep in your heart and MIND (about caring for another person) - which are two related but discrete and separable things: MERGING, CONNECTING, and going TOGETHER, COMPLETELY.
And, for me, the good feelings of being super FRIENDS with a girl; having fun with her (even sexual fun - though, in full disclosure, I have never had sex with a girl, and probably wouldn't want to - so the guys on
Broke Straight Boys are braver than I am, going against their natural inclinations!); and falling passionately in love and caring for her emotionally AND physically, all at the same time - have never come together, all at once. (And, I am pretty sure they never will ;-)))
I realize that there are, for sure, some models (like maybe, from what I have read, "Tank Shane"???) who used
Broke Straight Boys as an opportunity to explore their own feelings, and discover that they really DID have a romantic connection, for guys. That's all very cool, and I think great for the guys who have done this.
On the other hand, I think it is also very important for people to realize that, for the vast majority of
Broke Straight Boys guys, this is
NOT the scenario ~ and they are just fooling around, making some much-needed cash, making friends, and exploring how much fun sex can be with a friend - without it affecting in the least how their hearts and minds work: and without it affecting in the least, whom they are going to go home and LOVE, in a permanent way. This is ALSO cool: and, frankly, we are the beneficiaries of a new generation of open-minded guys who
understand this.
I ALSO think it is very cool that quite a number of our favourite
Broke Straight Boys models have been very open, with their g/f's, that
Broke Straight Boys is something they're doing to pay the bills - and that the g/f's are often fine with that, as long as the guys are honest. (As with Jason, as he told us last week.)
I just wish. . . that people across the Internet, could understand the realities of all this a little more fully, and generously. And, Beth, I wish the girls on that SHOW could have understood it more fully, too! (They might just have LOST a great boyfriend, or two!)
"A" XOXOXOXOXO
P.S. I am sorry I didn't address bisexuality in this comment: it is real, and ought to be discussed (and support GIVEN to our bisexual friends) -but perhaps that is a subject for a different thread.
