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Luke's World
The games some gay men play
Three recent internet dating experiences have really got me thinking about how some gay men really like to play games (and I don’t mean the tie me up kind).
Luke's World
The face to face meeting and how to do it with dignity
My good friend Simon, the one who has received the Order of the Honey Badger from the President for dedication to internet dating, was chatting to me recently about some of his experiences and it occurred to us that there were some real no nos around meeting a date face to face.
Luke's World
Sexual baggage
Are you honest about the number of men you’ve had sex with? A recent article in Attitude magazine got me thinking about how I approach this issue. They interviewed ten men and the number of partners ranged from 12 to 500.....
Luke's World
Humans with hearts and souls and not just penises and butts
I promised myself when I started this column that I wouldn’t write about race in a direct way; rather that I would allow my stories to talk about race in a natural and flowing way, seeing it as incidental to the larger narrative.
Luke's World
Why do we sabotage ourselves?
Why do we sabotage ourselves sometimes? You know what I mean - playing down our assets in our profile because we don’t want to “intimidate” men out there, having a mild flirtation with a really nice guy, then backing away from meeting them, or actually meeting someone, really fancying them, and then never contacting them again because “it would probably never have worked anyway”.
Luke's World
Guide to the internet for the not-yet misanthropic
Gosh I had such an interesting experience recently – I got to meet someone I had met through the internet!
Yes the sarcasm is deliberate. I’m just so tired of men flirting and chatting and texting, but all the excitement is in the chase and not in the kill. I now am convinced that about 80% of the men who use the internet are not really serious about finding a partner – it’s just a game to them.
The real challenge for those of us who are serious, and who are reasonably intact psychologically, is to “do” the internet with hope and sincerity while not becoming completely misanthropic.
Luke's World
Good manners for gay men
I wrote recently about being “love’s executioner” – I had, I guess, burst the bubble of fantasy and hope when I met in person a guy who’d approached me online - and told him (and showed him) that I was just ordinary old me. Not the fabulous, handsome, all loving, all giving, never disappointing sex machine he had built me up to be.
Your Gay Best Friend
Sex just for sex sake?
Dear Gabriel
I haven’t had sex in eight years. I was a single mother, and for a while, didn’t feel the need. Then I suppose I got out the habit. Or maybe I come over too desperate.
I can live by myself (with my child) and I can keep myself occupied. But I just want to have sex. I bought the bloody vibrator at the suburban sex toy party. But I’m just no good with it. It seems cold.
I’ve recently got so desperate I have dreams and desperate longings. I can’t concentrate. I’m tempted to put an ad in the paper, or meet someone on the internet. Anyone, just so long as I get to feel a real man’s skin.
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