“Why is it so difficult?”
A forum member asked this question in a new (but probably redundant) posting. He listed some things that he thought could be a reason why no one is nibbling at his bait and I looked at those things and saw that the only real stumbling block was his inability to host.
Hosting has been a major problem over, um, say, the last twenty-five years or so. In reality, it’s probably always been a problem for some guys; it’s not enough to want to have sex with a guy – you have to be able to be in a place that, preferably, is safe and comfortable for one and all to do the nasty to each other.
So, the history lesson (you knew it was gonna show up, didn’t you?). In my past and those early, heady days, finding a guy was stupidly easy since damned near all the guys in my neighborhood were down with it. With the exception of our one resident gay guy, we were all versatile because we had a “code:” If I do it to you, you have to do it to me. And it worked. As far as being able to find a place, shit, we had so many places we could go to that our biggest problem was picking a place that was close to wherever we happened to be.
This doesn’t include sleepovers and where you and your host could wind up sharing a bed and, well, yeah, when the lights go out, it was go time! In my neighborhood there were places where outside sex could be done, including going down to the creek and its wooded environs – skinny dippy on a hot summer’s day usually lent itself to boys having sex with each other.
It wasn’t until adulthood showed up that finding a guy and a place to do it started to be problematic but, then again, there were plenty of no-tell-motels at the outskirts of the city that were dirt cheap, anonymous, and took cash; the only problem now was transportation but if you had a car, it would be on. Guys were being very specific about what they would and wouldn’t do and I know of the many times I’d have a good ‘deal’ going on and right up to the moment where something he wanted to do – or didn’t want to do – would wind up killing the deal.
It was a pain in the ass (and not the good one) to not be able to make the deal with a guy but you understood that this was part of the whole “have sex with a guy game,” to put it like that. If you wanted guys to bed you, you had to make it easy for them to do it and this was easy for me because, in today’s terms, I could either top or bottom and it didn’t matter to me but with the one exception: If you didn’t suck dick, we weren’t going to make a deal.
I had to stick this in because I got tired of being hit on by guys who wanted me to do all of the work and the only thing they had to do was nut in my mouth or my ass. What made them think that I didn’t want my dick sucked? With this ‘clause’ in place, a lot of deals got broken but many more got made because there was a slew of, um, white guys who’d do almost anything to get some Black dick and, for me, not all that unlike my younger days.
Guys started to get really picky, oh, I’d say, around 1996. The number of men, both bi and gay, looking for men to have sex with was burgeoning and like I’d never seen before. The problem was that they had their preferences and so many guys demanded and insisted that their preferences take priority over yours and, okay, what kind of fucked up bullshit is this? Personally, I had an easier time getting pussy than I did getting dick but one of the things I – and other guys – had to learn was to be patient. Don’t give up. The online stuff had gotten seriously messy and even petty to a degree but there was always that odd chance that you could run into a guy and, oh, maybe a half-hour later, wind up in a bed with him or in the back seat of someone’s car or, yeah, the local no-tell joint.
Then… stranger danger. If you’re afraid of a guy you don’t know like you’d know the back of your hand, chances are very good that you’re not going to be getting any dick. Then… the arrogant, pushy motherfuckers who (a) wanted you to drop whatever you were doing to be of service to them (b) would sometimes ask for money or (c) wanted to know if you had a job, home, and car and, okay, what the fuck is this bullshit?
It had been bad enough that when HIV showed up in the 1980s, the number of M2M encounters damned near dropped to zero and I think that gay men took more of a hit since it had been reported that one should avoid IV drug users and/or men who were homosexual. As a bi guy living in a neighborhood with other closeted bi guys, this didn’t affect me all that much and our group tended to stay nice and clean in that respect and any guy who didn’t got kicked to the curb and more so when women were being known to kill a boyfriend who gave them the clap.
No joke. In the here and now, guys are so risk-adverse that it isn’t funny. You don’t want to risk getting an STI? The answer is… condoms. Duh. And, um, with guys being guys, the only time you really needed them was if anal sex was on the table and even the vaunted CDC still says that the chances of you getting an STI via oral sex is pretty slim.
To me, guys were starting to act like… women. No offense to women. I’d gotten with this one guy who insisted on condoms for everything, and I was okay with it even though I disliked sucking on a condom instead of an uncovered dick. The third time we got together, he said that we didn’t need condoms now and it very much reminded me of the times when I got with women who demanded condoms and then, after the third time having sex, nah, we don’t need ’em. Or the women who had me put one on and then ripped it off of me and we continued to have sex.
I was negotiating with a guy who told me that we wouldn’t have sex until after the fourth date. Okay, hold up a moment – you just told me that you’ve been dying to suck some cock and, quoting you, “The sooner, the better!” – but now you’re saying nothing’s going to happen until after the fourth date? My ‘problem’ here is… I don’t date guys. I was made to understand that dating is just an interview to determine suitability for a relationship of some kind. The deal was broken and it was a shame because, at least “on paper,” this guy looked very good to me.
But, okay, as the saying goes, there are still plenty of fish in the sea. Getting rejected for sex is part and parcel of the whole M2M thing and, well, just as much as it is in the M2F thing. This one guy was throwing stuff my way that made me interrupt him to ask, “Are you planning to have my babies or something? I just want to suck your dick!” Another guy kicked me to the curb because – get this – my dick was a half-inch shorter than what he preferred. I was dumbfounded and wanted to know why that made a difference and all he said was, “It’s my preference.”
What I was finding out was that guys who stuck to their preferences… weren’t getting any dick. I remember having this conversation with the guy I’ve been mentoring for a few years now and him asking me how I managed to get all the dick I was getting, and I told him, “That’s easy – I make it easy for guys to have sex with me.” I had pointed out to him the trait of being flexible and adaptable and even being able to improvise on the fly instead of saying, “This is what I prefer and I’m not changing anything about it.”
Because from what I could discern, guys who did this – who fail to adapt and adjust – were the ones bitching and moaning about not being able to find a guy they could have sex with. Why is it so difficult?
Because we’ve made it that way. My protege often finds it hard to believe when I tell him that it never used to be this hard to get into a guy’s underwear. But that was then… and this is 2026 and a continuation of a… trend in this part of the dynamic where guys are, essentially, looking for a boyfriend and being under the impression that this will make and keep them safe from STIs. They want emotional content over physical content, and I remember writing a blog a few years ago now asking whether or not it was my imagination or were guys starting to behave like women.
It’s so difficult because we’ve made it difficult.
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