Q Please settle a difference of opinion that stumped our small group at the coffee shop: Why do guys wear socks on their feet in porn? I say it’s a tradition. My friends claim it is a foot-fetish thing. My credibility rides on this, so thanks for answering. —Socked in Denver
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A The most obvious possibility: the strap-on was a late Christmas gift presented to him to be used on him, not by him. A slightly less obvious possibility: some small-dicked men—ones who are not at all insecure—use strap-ons on partners who enjoy a “filled-up” feeling from time to time. The least obvious possibility: the man on the airplane was a female-to-male transsexual who, like a lot of forward-thinking FTMs, declined to get an expensive phalloplasty during his transition and the pretty much nonfunctional penis a phalloplasty “endows” an FTM with. Instead, he invested in a high-quality, looks-like-a-prick, feels-like-a-sneaker strap-on. If your gay friends couldn’t come up with any of these answers, SEI12E, you need smarter, more insightful, more credible gay friends.
Q Longtime reader, first-time writer.
Q Dan, your advice to LIMP—the man who was reluctant to use a vibrator on/with his wife—was right on! I’m a 34-year-old woman who needs a vibrator to get off, and for years I felt “defective.” My husband didn’t exactly help at first, but he eventually asked me to show him how I did it. He wanted to try. Bingo—the look on my face was all he needed; he was a convert from that moment on.
“Any decision Barack Obama makes can cause a stir. He invited Rick Warren, a popular pastor, to say a few words at his inauguration. The aim was to stroke conservative Christians, thereby fostering a warm feeling of national unity. But some of Mr. Obama’s gay supporters were appalled. Though hardly a fire-breather by the standards of Southern Baptists, Mr. Warren holds old-fashioned views about homosexuality. Bloggers lamented Mr. Obama’s ‘betrayal.’ Dan Savage, a gay columnist, urged his readers to protest by coining a new meaning for ‘Saddleback’—the name of Mr. Warren’s church. Many of the suggestions were unprintable.”
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