WATCHING NAKED ATTRACTION, which is how I now spend 80 per cent of my waking hours, it occurred to me that the whole world has gone gay. I mean, really: demanding to see a man’s D before committing to a date. Gay men have been doing that for years. Possibly since the Stone Age, when, I imagine, we used cave paintings to etch “dom top seeks bttm” above a stick figure displaying a flatteringly angled boner (can an archaeologist out there corroborate this for me?)
The Channel 4 nude dating show sees contestants choose a match based on isolated parts of their naked bodies (the face is shown last), dismissing one potential partner in each round. During the first episode, presenter Anna Richardson asked a picker, “Have you ever been faced by six penises?” It’s a question which most gay men I know would answer with a nonplussed “yes, obviously” but was apparently a novelty for the straights. And Naked Attraction is just the tip of the iceberg. Has anyone else noticed that in 2016 the average 20-something British man is indistinguishable from a Bel Ami hopeful ? In 1998, author Michael Cunningham wrote that in their baseball caps and basketball shorts “gay men have taken to imitating the boys who tortured them in high school.” Now it seems that things have gone full circle, and the male cast of Ex on The Beach are apparently too busy faketanning and manscaping to realise that their closest aesthetic relative is a tanked-up muscle queen holidaying in Mykonos. It is an undisputed fact that there is nothing in this world — not musicals, not Liza Minnelli, not full penetrative sex between two men — gayer than the sight of TOWIE’s Mark Wright in a pair of Speedos.
“I IMAGINE WE USED CAVE PAINTINGS TO ETCH ‘DOM TOP SEEKS BTTM’ ABOVE A STICK FIGURE DISPLAYING A FLATTERINGLY ANGLED BONER”
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