31 December 2011

My Wish for New Years is "Tina's Wish."

(i. turner, t. turner) 
Producers: chris lord-aldge, tina turner and roger davies 
Album: what's love got to do with it (europe-94) 
Previously recorded by ike and tina as "tina's prayer" 
B-side of the "i don't wanna fight" single 

I'm talking to the priest 
The high priest 
And everybody out there in the universe 
If what I'm saying is wrong 
Then tell me the right way to say it 
Cause I wanna be made over 

Paint me red, paint me green 
Give me liberty, wash me clean 
Make me over, make me nice 
Cause when I'm done, lord, I wanna be right 
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tina+turner/tinas+wish_20137721.html ] 
Hey lord 
Make me over, I wanna be made over 
Hey lord 
Make me over, I wanna be made over 

Make me smart, make me king 
Give a lot, give me steam 
I want eternal beauty, spiritual things 
Cause when I'm done, yes I wanna be a good thing 

Hey lord 
Make me over, I wanna be made over 
Hey lord 
Make me over, I wanna be made over 

I wanna go places, I wanna do some things 
I wanna be a star, I wanna have a big name 
But in my heart, let beauty reign 
And when I'm done, I wanna have fame 

Lord make me nice, lord make me good 
Give me power, give me love 
I wanna be desireable, voluptous, tenderlized

30 December 2011

A Little Drama?

Everyone who knows VixcB knows the one thing I hate the most in life is drama. I try to avoid unnecessary drama at all cost. I am careful when selecting friends, even more careful when selecting lovers, I do my best to communicate effectively and try to select the right words and terminology when expressing my opinions and in giving criticisms. For the most part I have done a great job at minimizing the drama in my life.

Sure you have probably read some of the blogs that drip of nothing but drama but as anyone knows you can not live a life completely drama free. Recently I told MeTo how I truly felt and even went as far as to show him with a grand gesture. Things did not go well and I left feeling blue and depressed. He later admitted the situation was due to poor communication.

Then Christmas came around and I was dealing with MeTo drama, I decided to visit my my mother and the emotions of my grandmother no longer being with us brought more drama, I went to see my uncle who is not doing to well and that was more drama, then a visit from MeTo brought more drama and then a night in the ER with my best friend was just the cherry this ice cream Sunday was missing.

When it rains it pours and the worst part about the rain is there is nothing you can do about it except to wait it out. Its hard though when you have a heart full of pain and you are trying to be there for people that are suffering just as much as you are.

When I stop and think about all the things that has happened this year I realize that there is even more to me that people don't know but should know, like my self-esteem issues.

I had told MeTo when we broke up that I needed to work on me, I had no idea what issues I had just that they were causing me to be self destructive and self defeating. No matter how great my life got I was not happy and could not enjoy it the way one should. So I called things off and began working on me. I discovered it was low self-esteem which caused me to conform in relationships instead of compromising. Once I tackled those issues I sat down to figure out who I wanted to be, what I wanted in life and my Non-Negotiables. I then had to get comfortable in the new me and I did. It was such an experience to talk about me and mean what I said, to have people see what I could see, and to see what many people had been seeing all along.

I soon knew that there was just one thing missing a man who deserved a guy like me and I went to get him back but it seemed like it was to late. What I had been told was a casual relationship turned out to be far more serious and I was heartbroken. I wish I had known the seriousness but did not and so allowed my self to hope and put myself on the line.

Things began to hit the fan one by one in rapid succession and I could not take it. Things were all beyond my control and now I feel like I am just a sitting duck waiting to get more bad news that will end it all and ruin the future I was planning for myself. Thank G-d for my friends who are keeping me on track and reminding me that each possible outcome can have a positive impact on my future if I let it.  

29 December 2011

A Prayer for Sabbath and the New Year

We cannot merely pray to you, O G-d,
     to end war;
For we know that You have made the world
     in a way
That man must find his own path to peace.
Within himself and with his neighbor.

We cannot merely pray to You, O G-d,
     to end starvation;
For You have already given us the
     resources
With which to feed the entire world,
If we would only use them wisely.
We cannot merely pray to You, O G-d,
     to root out prejudice;
For You have already given us eyes
With which to see the good in all men,
If we would only use them rightly.
We cannot merely pray to You, O G-d,
     to end despair,
For You have already given us the power
To clear away slums and to give hope,
If we would only use our power justly.
We cannot merely pray to You, O G-d,
     to end disease;
For You have already given us great minds
With which to search out cures and healing,
If we would only use them constructively.
Therefore we pray to You instead, O G-d,
For strength, determination and will power,
To do instead of just pray,
To become instead of merely to wish."

By:
Jack Riemer
Likrat Shabbat 

27 December 2011

A Really OLD Friend

Today I talked to an old friend, someone that I told many people I would never deal with again but he seemed to show up when I was at my worst, we listened to Garbage and HIM in an attempt to make me feel better but before I knew it he was on my computer changing my facebook and even logged into our old blog. It was so scary having him back in my life we even died my hair black and just as quickly as he came he was gone.

I spent the rest of the day trying to make since of everything, I talked to My now former father in-law and his sister and they helped me gain perspective on everything. I was at my worse and it hurt because I was doing so well with everything. MeTo and I tried to discuss the possibility of getting back together but he was now not talking to me at all and my friend wanted to get revenge. To top it off Christmas brought up feelings that I hadn't dealt with as far as my grandmother's death, and at the end of the night I went to visit my uncle and he did not look well. My heart and mind were racing.

I went to work and tried to focus on my job but I could not, no matter how hard I tried. Before I knew it I was in the corner on the floor crying. How could MeTo say one thing and his actions another? Was my uncle going to make it? How could I let anger keep me from saying goodbye to my grand mother? How could a guy who I was doing a favor for, not prep everything? I was not eating and on average for every 48 hours I was only getting 6 hours of sleep.

I walked around center city after work and got some retail therapy, all things that I needed. I got home and laid down and I could not move, my body hurt so badly I could only move my finger and tried to call someone to help but no answer. I tried to call out but my voice was faint. I thought I might die I was in so much physical and emotional pain. Soon the pain died down just in time for Titus to show up. He got on my computer as I tried to clean my room and then we died my hair.

He left and I was alone to deal with my emotions, after giving my landlord the rent I decided to write MeTo a letter and sent him a text asking him to check his email. He was not answering his phone or responding to my text. I then put on War of the Roses, one of my favorite movies. I drifted in and out of sleep and when the movie was over I was fully awake. I had a missed call and a VM. Apparently MeTo pocket dialed. I tried calling him back and no answer.

I resumed cleaning and then Jaiye called and we chatted about everything. I needed the distraction. I then listened to the song. I had dedicated Beyonce's Hello to MeTo when we first started dating and I realized it still held true. I then realized that if you love something you have to set it free, if it comes back to you then its meant to be. The pain died down by a great degree. Instead of wanting to run away from the hurt I decided I would let MeTo be happy in his new relationship if thats what he wanted. I would even try to remain friends.

Its hard to let the love of you life go for real and even harder to see that he is happy with someone else. However in all of this I got something that I wanted for years, a positive self image, I gained the ability to love me first. So I know I am not ready for dating now, I am way to hurt. I will however keep an open mind and stay positive that love will find me again.  

26 December 2011

Cologne, Style, Hygiene and Etiquette

Have you ever walked past someone and found yourself wondering, “What is that smell?” sometimes its soft and welcoming, sometimes it lingers pleasantly but more often than not it’s a hard hit to the nostrils. Club night is the only night one can expect for this not to happen, with most gay men smelling like something from Hollister, Abercrombie and Fitch, or Axe. In the end the club smells the same it does every night, like a bunch of gay men about to have sex. All men who bother to don cologne love the way it makes them smell and give them a strange amount of confidence. Even the most attractive man seems to think he can now go after the hottest guy in the place.

I remember a time I was hanging out with new friends and one of them just had to have certain cologne, it was the only one he wore. He got it I smelled it and all I could say ways, “It smells like Woody’s on a Wednesday night.” Needless to say it was taken as an insult. We remain friends via Facebook.

 Sure from the bottle it smells one way but once it contacts skin and mixes with ones natural smell it becomes something slightly different. I however can tell a scent no matter who is wearing it. I know my favorites such as Romace, Obsession, Polo Blue, Axe, and a plethora of others. I knew them so well that many guys have no idea what I am talking about until I describe the bottle. Obviously these are the kinds that just put shit on that they think smells good.

As for the 90% of men who wear cologne it is obvious they love it, some to the point they bathe in it and those are the ones you cannot say anything to. They are the ones who might put on chap stick to finish off their look, mean while their hair could use some product and a lint roller would only do them good. It is a losing battle, there are men who look great rolling out of bed, spend the necessary time to primp and one or two sprits of their favorite sent and they go off to date the most unattractive person. Then there is the guy who looks ok, throws on whatever and goes on his way, he just so happens to be dating a guy who looks great and spends all the time in the world to get his hair, face and outfit looking just right and puts on just enough bottled sent to just bring it all together. 

Oddly enough the guy who looks ok, demands the best from everyone in areas where no one else can see, Quite a conundrum.

I dated a guy who was the type of guy who looked his best only when necessary. I have to admit when he puts his mind to it, with little effort he looks like a million bucks, pardon the cliché. On the day to day he is not that charming. He is a brain who spends all his time doing things like, work, computer games, and watching Startreck. He however demanded that I keep the house clean, the bedroom tidy and provide dinner whenever he could not or did not feel like cooking. I had no qualms with this, but when you spend a good amount of time looking your best, Hair treatments, Facials, pedicures, manicures, makeup when necessary, and occasionally getting teeth whitened, It is a bit off putting when a man who is wearing the same outfit as yesterday comes at you for sex, or pouts because it’s been a week since you have had sex and he wants a blow job.

Why kiss a man whose mouth never smells minty fresh, or cuddle when he smells not so clean. Is it wrong to try and keep some distance between you and this man who on average is a bit of a cave man? I enjoy being whisked of my feet by prince charming at least once a week.

There are some things that should never be negotiable, Daily showering, brushing of one’s teeth and using mouthwash and floss, combing hair, wearing the same outfit and socks two days in a row is never ok. Certain measures are taken to ensure that one looks and smells his best and if these measures are not taken seriously then distance is the inevitable outcome.

Proper decorum is also the biggest turn on anyone could ask for. A man who says please and thank you, one who excuses himself from the table for bodily functions and says excuse me by habit when air comes out from other places than the nose. A man who never slurps, or chews with his mouth open or eats with his fingers is not a nicety it is a necessity.

I never understood why such habits exist. Why do some parents allow, smacking lips and slurping? They are disgusting sounds and should never be herd. There are certain things that people do to show that they care for and respect those around them, Proper Table manners, Social etiquette, and Proper Hygiene are among the top important.  There is no point in time that someone should deviate from these. It is called being rude for a reason to, showing inconsideration is the same as showing disrespect.

So with all of this said what would you do if you did your best to, appear, smell, conduct yourself in a proper fashion but there are one or two men in your life that do not, such as a boyfriend?

25 December 2011

Merry Christmas Indeed

Weather you were Naughty or Nice, Hope Santa brought you a gift that was just Right!
 -------------------------------------------------------
A Prayer for Xmas

"Two young boys were spending the night at their grandparents. At bedtime, the two boys knelt beside their beds to say their prayers when the youngest one began praying at the top of his lungs.


"I PRAY FOR A NEW BICYCLE ... I PRAY FOR A NEW XBOX ... I PRAY FOR A NEW DVD-PLAYER ..."


His older brother leaned over and nudged the younger brother and said, "Why are you shouting your prayers? God isn't deaf."

To which the little brother replied, "No, but Gramma is!"

24 December 2011

Lets Answer this Riddle. . .

Three things that everyone wants and lots of them are Sex, Money and love. Its funny how money can buy sex and love can bring sex but love won’t get you money and money can’t get you love. So we work hard in hopes that our career will bring us happiness and lots of money and while the money won’t give us love it will make finding it a whole lot easier.

What do you do when you have found love but you long for money? Or what do you do when you have found love you have money but the sex is just not where it should be even after you have worked on it?

Life throws you a bone once in a while but how do you know which you should jerk and keep and which you should just let go soft?

23 December 2011

Some Roommates

(I wrote this back when i was engaged and living in Jersey. There was a huge fight and things got akward for a lil bit. I think what ever anyone can pull from this is still valid.)


It is no secret that I am spoiled in many aspects. My first Fulltime job, my relationship with my sister, my first roommate and the first love of my life, all have been above exceptional. I never understood how some people hated their roommates. That is until I did a recent evaluation of a bad roommate. There are certain instances where certain people should not be mixed, like having your best friend move in with you and your boyfriend.

Recently I have learned that when you’re in a relationship things spill out and onto others, this is something I have always figured with my friends but never experienced. There are times when a couple has a fight and the good friend tries to be just that and gets some of the spill over. Normally this is understood and the “Good Friend” knows that so long as he remains neutral and slightly pushes for the relationship then he will remain in good light. This was me always encouraging my friends to remain happy first but being the hopeless romantic, any friend who does less is not a friend.

This all becomes even more difficult if said friend lives with you and is seen more as a child and dependant than a friend or roommate.

In the event that a friend chooses sides and is not seen as someone who is on the side of a peaceful reconciliation then, well what can both parties do if they get back together? The other is an outsider who is “that guy” the one who doesn’t want things to work he is an enemy to the relationship.

Now if you add the fact that they live together, that “that Guy” is seen as someone who needs to be taken care of in the since of, told when to do things, reminded when to pay bills, cleaned up after he now becomes, “That Guy” minus respect. What does one do when you live with an immature ex-friend who is agents your relationship? Do  apologize for the spillover, do you give him a piece of you mind, or do you allow him to walk around like a big baby, intentionally not acknowledging your presence or giving you the money he owes you.  Do you have your boyfriend get involved or do you pull a Vixc-B?

 One could say that you cut him off much like you would do a child. Stop cleaning up after him, cut him off from the things you purchased to make the house run efficiently. Or you could just get even. The simplest form would be to apologize so everything would go back to normal but where is the fun in that? You become the one buying his toilet paper, paper towels, napkins, he will still use your microwave and leave it a mess, use your pots and pans leaving them a mess, borrowing your tools,  using your phones, and pretending you never clean. He will still continue to buy whatever is cheaper when you do ask him to buy house supplies, the brands that last a few days and don’t get anything clean, you know the products that are on the shelves as filler and have dust on them.

So I am at a cross roads. It is clear this person doesn’t like me which is fine and good, it is clear he is not fond of the fact I am engaged to his other roommate, it is clear that he wants an apology, but I am stubborn and I don’t respect him. I find him to be a shady character that I have not been able to trust for almost a year. My thoughts could go on and on. So I have decided even after my fiancé has asked me to apologize that I will not. When he starts acting like an adult then I can attempt to be his friends but until then as it stands now. After the lease is up he is getting cut off.

22 December 2011

Recently in Indigo

My life has been one rapid moving roller coaster ever since I quit my job at Starbucks. It was an odd night when a supervisor decided to constantly push my buttons. At one point he picked an argument and I told him not in front of customers. He continued and I took o my hat and quit. It was the first time I walked off of a job but I was told I did the right thing.

While things at Serafina were slow I was offered the opportunity to train and become the second night baker. So things started picking up and before I knew it my life was totally different.

Novemebr 15 I moved into my new place which although temporary is shitter than the last. I found a way to make it work. The time soon came when I was ready to start dating and with my social life, dating, work and school I was catching sleep where I could.

Soon it was December and each week brought more work hours than the week before. MeTo would call me everyday on his way from work and we would catch up. I found it odd how we would talk everyday but most days it felt like he was pushing me away or didn't care about how sad I was because I could not decorate for the holidays.

Then the day of three dates came about. I met first with an Ausie who was about to leave town, then MeTo and then Matthew. The Ausie was older looking in person and a total turn off. MeTo and I tried to keep things friendly over dinner and Matthew and I tagged teamed showing each other a night on the town. After Matthew met my Friends Icon and Kwame I knew he was a keeper although temporary.

I went on to have predates with two other guys which led to two actual dates. Devin a PhD student who on paper reminded me so much of MeTo it was scary and Ty a DJ who I found not so physically attractive but our conversations were stellar.

Soon after my two real dates I told Matthew how I really felt and we decided to hang out and it was a fun night, friends and drinking and a thong that was not supposed to be seen. We then went on to dirty text and the possibility of showing each other a “different” side.

Soon an old coworker came back to town and a night on the town was held in his honor. I got a chance to dance hard like I did before I was in a serious relationship living in Jersey. Thar Sunday Icon and I decided to go to 90's night at Woody's and I danced harder and longer. It felt so great to work mucels that I had not worked in what felt like ages.

Soon it was finals week and studying replaced parting and late nights drinking. The week looked grim and I woke up Tuesday with a cold. While finals went well work got a little crazy and a conversation with MeTo left me wondering, No matter what, my temper was that of, and would always be, a Bitch. 

21 December 2011

A Homo-normal is a Hetero-Normative

I was talking to my friend Phil a while back and he coined the term, Hetero-normative. It came up in a discussion about how in many gay relationships one plays the role of the “Girl” and the other plays the role of the “Guy.” In many male gay relationships there is a bottom and a top and when it comes to hetero-normative the bottom is the “girl.”  

Why is the bottom the girl? Well like in a heterosexual relationship the girl is the one who takes the dick, the girl is the one who says sex is or is not happening. She is predominantly the one, who is left cooking, cleaning, nagging, and being nurturing.

I know for a fact that almost no gay relationship is that cut and dry and that one must take into consideration, versatile relationships. I also am aware that no heterosexual relationship is that stereotypical. Many men will be left holding the cleaning bag or are the cook or nag for the girl to pull her share but hetero-normative go off of stereotypes and are fairly accurate when it comes to gay relationships where there is a bottom and top. 

Needles to say Phil and I are both bottoms. Phil is a rules guy, he goes on dates and normally doesn’t pay and reserves sex for when things are official, condoms are required until after 6 months of dating and STD test has been taken by both parties. Phil is a smart guy and he is a force to be reckoned with considering most men who are tops feel all things are 50/50 until it comes to the bed room, then there is a well-defined taker and giver.

However it is quite interesting how a relationship’s dynamic will change once sex is involved. Once sex is involved the top is at the whim of the bottom unless he decides he wants to move on. All men want sex and it is interesting to what lengths one will go to get it. The top is the head and the bottom the neck and he turns the top anyway he wants. A top that pisses off his bottom will quickly make things right because it will mean that he will not be having sex until the bottom wants to.

As time in a hetero-normative relationship progresses the bottom quickly realizes that sex alone is not enough to keep things going. There is a shift like in a heterosexual relationship. The top begins to demand more of his bottom and if the bottom fails to deliver it becomes quickly known that the top can get sex someplace else.

So many times the bottom will pick one or more of the classic, “Women” chores. Such as cleaning or cooking. When love comes into the picture there is another shift and thus is typically the last shift in power. The bottom is now cooking and or cleaning and dictating when they have sex, the top has someone to love and his bottom and likes that fact that he pretty much gets what he wants when he wants it, the bottom makes it so because he wants to keep his top. The bottom gets what he wants because the top likes having sex whenever he wants.

At some point the question of living together or marriage come into place It is a tough one, once the question has been asked its either move forward or stay awkward.

Once living together new problems arise it becomes simply easier to deal with things the same way heterosexual couples would deal with them. The bottom ends up being the voice of a woman and the top ends up being the man and things go on like this until the end of the relationship or in the rare case till one dies.

We grow up in a world where there are lines and definitions. When something new comes into the mix we simply make translations. Before the time when gay relationships were acceptable you had man and woman and woman stayed home to birth babies and tend house. You have to admit the world has changed greatly.

20 December 2011

Happy Chanukah

To all My fellow Jews 

Tabu Lounge & The Waiter

My two new friends and I got really busy doing our own things, Ivan was dealing with his stuff, Icon was planning events and I was dealing with my trifecta, Work, School, Men.

Soon my work schedule stabilized and Icon, Ivan and I were hanging out more, our favorite spot became Tabu Sports Lounge.

One night when hanging out with Icon he showed the Bartender his ID and the price dropped from 4.50 for his City Wide to 3 something. That is when he explained the Industry discount and ever since I got my sticker it has been or default.

Tabu had been one of my spots ever since I found out I dated the manager Adam. During my stent living in Jersey whenever I came to Philly I would stop buy and if he was not working he would by me a drink and we would catch up. I got to know a lot of the people that worked there. Adam then moved away and I had no real reason to stop by until one of the guys from Pita Pit started working as a bar back. To support him I would stop by from time to time and have a drink.

Then Ivan saw the place and fell for it, and before I knew it, it was the preferred spot in the Gayborhood over Woody’s. Lots of memories were made in Tabu, some involving, Raymone and a few others.  

There was a night when I was hanging with the guys and I pointed a few people out to them, there was my favorite bar back, the new bar back my friend, the bartender who I could not help but flirt with, and a waiter whom I had heard things about from Adam when he worked there.

That same night the waiter walked over to us and over herd me talking about how I used to be a house wife. He smiled and shot me a look of interest. Hard to believe there are some gay men out there who want that 50’s life but with a man. I was kind of flatted when he asked, “What’s wrong with that?” I always thought he was cute.

A few nights later he came over and started talking to Icon about his upcoming reggae night. Icon told him about some of his parties, the most recent being Dassit, the electro soul funk party where he performed. The two exchanged numbers and I pretended to be angry, we just laughed.

As we frequented Tabu more and more we bumped into him more and one night I decided to take his number from icon and put an end to the madness.  The thing was he came off as totally straight and I was attracted to him, and in cases such as these they always turn out to be straight.

I sent him a polite text saying hi and the conversation ensued.  I eventually did ask what his deal was and he asked why. I figured what is the worst that could happen. I told him that I thought he was hot but didn’t want to mess up what could be a friendship if he was not into me like that. He never did answer my question but it was insinuated he might go for guys.

Later there was a comment about a white horse and a few other things that sent me into a state of confusion. I had walked away from the first conversation thinking he was not into me, and the second conversation left me thinking he liked white guys, but there was a white horse in the room and the other comments are just to Taboo to mention.   

19 December 2011

Dating 101

I think enough time has passed since the break up. To prepare myself for the big world of dating again I decided I would take an almost scientific approach. One day while browsing through books in my second favorite bookstore, I saw a book that was on my list, Boyfriend 101.

I had just read Sex and the City, and decided that I was in fact a lot like Carrie and MeTo was such a Mr. Big. I needed to fix that. So I decided to take what I would learn in the book and apply it to my dating life. The book, although a little dated, was full of useful advice. The best pieces of advice were the sections on predating and how to act on the first few dates.

I am a bit of an open book, so I tend to just let conversations flow without filtering the information that might scare some people off.  It was kind of funny that in a matter of a week I went from the spastic book version of Carrie to the TV version of Charlotte, I was a rules boy.

Ivan was afraid that if I started dating I would have less time for friends and I assured him that would not be the case. To be honest I would need my friends more than ever now. I would need feedback and advice on whether or not certain guys were worth pursuing.  

One night over drinks I explained some of my new rules for dating based on the book and while at first they laughed they soon realized it made since. So I decided to test it.

I went to a4a and tweaked my profile and got a few guys in line to predate. One of which was Matthew.

Matthew and I met for coffee at my old Starbucks and I immediately noticed his smile. A heavy set guy but it was evident he took good care of himself. After I grabbed my triple, 5 pump, soy, peppermint mocha, we went for a walk and talk.  It would seem that a walk and talk is the best kind of predate.

We ended up in same branch of my second favorite book store where I bought the book, and stood in a random section and talked about what made us, us. He was going to leave the country for two years in March to help a third world country. So I thought this was perfect, this guy would be experiment guy, I would use him to tweak my dating skills.

The good thing about the experiment guy and the fact you never tell them you read a book on dating is that they don’t know you made a dating Faux Pas. For example: one should never discuss the issues they have with their parents, one should avoid talking about exes and predates should remain short and sweet.

Remember how I said I am an open book and I just let the conversation flow? Well before I knew it I mentioned MeTo, how I don’t talk to my mother which then required an explanation and we spent maybe 2 hours in that store.  But he was sweet and cute, every time he smiled my toes wanted to curl, his personality was so attractive I could not help myself.

Soon it was time for him to go and we walked out together and promised we would hangout again, “Hangout?” I did not want a buddy to hang out with, I wanted a guy that I could date and eventually have sex with. But I like they say there are plenty of fish in the sea and I had another predate already scheduled with a guy named Don.

18 December 2011

How Lucky Was It?


On a rainy day I went to school, it was a typically day and during class Ivan sent me a text to tell me he just found out the Femme Fatale tour dvd was out at Target. Ivan being the hardcore Britney fan that he is was disappointed that he did not put the event on his calendar. I sent him a text back saying I would go with him if he waited until I got out of class. He picked me up from school and we went to Target.

On the ride over he told me he also had to stop at a Coin Star to turn his loose change into cash. Lucky for him the Super Fresh across the street from Target had a machine. It was a typical Vixc B and Ivan outing. We made jokes and Laughed at the dumbest things. We argued only to realize we were arguing the same point.

After going to target we deposited my check and then we hit up the coin star and when all was said and done Ivan was on his way to customer service to get 8 dollars and 88 cents. He was extremely thrilled at the number. He acclaimed it was a sigh something lucky was going to happen. We went back to his place and he could not wait to watch Britney. I was just about to head out after a few songs because I needed to find a second job. My hours at Serafina were not enough to pay my new rent and I refused to ask for my job back at Starbucks.

Just after I explained to Ivan what I had planned for the rest of my day, my phone rang. It was one of the managers at my job asking when I was going to come in for training. I was training to be the second night baker there was only one meaning he had to work every night and he was going to be off Saturday night. So I scheduled two nights of training and that was that. Then I got a text that one of the barista's quit and they were not hiring a replacement. I now no longer needed a second job. I turn to Ivan and told him what happened. I the exclaimed, “It's 888.” he laughed and pointed out that it was his 888 and my new fortune had nothing to do with him.

We decided to watch some more of the concert before Ivan had to go to work. I decided to go along for the ride. The plan was to tag along while Ivan went tanning then we would walk to Starbucks together and part ways after I got a drink.

It was pouring and the gas station was crowded so Ivan decided to just go to the gas station near the tanning salon. While waiting for the light at 20th and Arch street Ivan's car mad a strange sound, then it gave a shutter and then nothing, out of gas. He looked at me, “Oh my gaud, what do I do?” I suggested calling AAA but he didn't have it. So we decided to just walk to the gas station, get a gas can and enough gas to fill the can then get gas at the gas station.

Now mind you it is poring out and Ivan is about to be late for work. We decided he would stay with his car and I took his card to get the gas, this way if a cop came to the care he would be able to give all the proper information. Poor kid started freaking out when all the cars started beeping, after all it was the middle of rush hour in the rain.

The guys at the gas station moved slower than molasses in February, but I got the can and gas and got back to Ivan. At this point I am soaked and the can way more complicated than we both thought it would be. The spout had three different pieces and it had been years since I even looked at a gas can yet alone used one but we did our best, two gay guys who's idea of performing maintenance is calling dad or a professional.

We eventually got enough gas in the car for it to start, we have no idea how much got waisted. Ivan decided to still go tanning before work after we got gas. A good hand washing later and a few pages in my book he was done and we headed to Starbucks.

On the way I mentioned 888 and he shot me a look of death and asked how he was lucky and I simply said, “You could have had to deal with it on your own.”  

17 December 2011

A Friendly Evolution

The cool thing about many gays is that we always want to belong to a group. Not so much an exclusive group just a group that we can say we belong to. A group full of people that get along and enjoy many of the same things. I guess you can all it a Clique minus that petty high school bull shit.

The coolest thing in my life I would have to say is my group of friends. Many of which I have written about in the past. The thing about groups of friends is that they evolve and sometimes change. As you grow you will notice this to be a sometimes sad truth.

They say if you can count more than one good friend you are truly blessed and I must admit that I am highly blessed. I still have my friends Jaiye, Phil, and RJ but for the past six months there have been some new major players in my life. There are two people that keep my grounded and encourage personal growth and development in ways that I thought only Jaiye would ever do.

I met Icon and Ivan while working at Starbucks. They were a dynamic duo and invited me to hang out one night and the rest was history. Ivan and I would argue and disagree to such a degree one would think fist would be thrown but instead we would look at each other and decide to just drop it and move onto laughing. Icon was impressed and loved the fact that he had two totally different friends who enjoyed each other's differences.

Icon is the sweetheart, one of the sweetest people anyone could ever meet. He keeps the peace without trying and has a style that is so unique that people cant help but to notice him and tell him how great he looks. To be honest he is 6'5 and if you got something negative to say you most likely will just keep it to yourself. I like to call Icon Mama. He carries a hug bag with all the stuff he needs and has the demeanor of someone's grandmother, loving yet stern.

Ivan is from the Lehigh Valley and is extremely different from Icon and I. If you had to pick a category for each of our style Icon would be 90's R&B, Ivan very new millennium Frat boy, and I would be 80's rock. Ivan has very strict rules for himself and does a great job of balancing that with not being to judgmental of others.

While Icon is hopeful of finding love, Ivan doesn't want to even think about falling until he is at least 30 and I am simply looking for a good time while I waiting for the right guy to come along in the right circumstance.

Then of course there is Jaiye who is settled down with his boyfriend in south Philly. Phil continues to work his ass off at school and work and remains unseen. RJ is still RJ and going to school for cosmetology.

The others are now just after thoughts and have become not so important. But having five friends who I consider best friends is more than amazing and I have made so many memories some of which you will read in the near future.   

16 December 2011

J.R and The Winner

Some men I just don't get, big talkers and gamers are the worse. During my stint with J.R. I ended up leaving my Favorite Belt, a pair of shorts, and an earing over his house, we even had a spare set of keys made so that if I got locked out my apartment I would just go to his job or call him so I could get into my apartment.

Well right after I decided to leave him a lone for awhile I got got text one day telling me he lost his job. Being the good person that I am I tried calling and texting him. He would never pick up and he rarely responded to text. This was new and odd considering before he would answer on the first ring or text me right back if did not answer.

Then the day came when I was locked out and as planned I called him for my keys. It was important because I had to work the morning shift the next day. He would not answer his phone. I decided that I would go to his apartment and bang on his door. I had to call a dozen times in the process. I then went to his favorite spots to see if anyone had seen him. No one saw him all night. When I went back to his apartment I noticed that all the lights were now off with the exception of one.

I could tell the dogs herd the bell because every time I rang it they would go crazy with barking. Obviously he was home when I first stopped by and this time he was not, so I continued to call. He finally called me back and told me he was in bed and had an interview the next day. I explained the situation and he told me that in the process of getting fired and cleaning out his desk he left my keys. I asked why and he stopped himself when began to say he didn't care, Ouch. I went to Ivan's house, I sent text to all my supervisors explaining the situation and crashed there.

Latter the next day I got a text from J.R. Saying he looked all over his apartment and could not find the keys, when I asked about the interview I got no response.

The Saturday before the aids walk I was still locked out and my roommates being who they are chose not to help me. So I went to the Belgum Cafe for my favorite fries and vegan wings. There I bumped into a few of J.R.'s friends and when he walked in I could tell he was avoiding me, he kept his back to me and went to the bathroom. I got my food and left.

I got to Phil's and sent J.R. a text. He responded saying he cared and all that bull shit, then he told me he started seeing someone else. I wanted to see him in person to talk but he then told me he was on his way to the new guys house to have sex because he needed sex.

I bought a pack of cigarettes and smoked three. The next week it was hell, I could hardly eat, and threw most of that up. I smoked unlike ever before and soon I was drinking heavily to top it all off.

As time passed I felt better and tried the whole friend thing and J.R, but 99% of the time he just ignored me as best he could. You would think he would offer closure or the shit that he was holding hostage at his apartment. Its one thing to fuck with a gay man's heart and totally different thing to fuck with his wardrobe.

The funny thing was JR was about to have his 30th birthday and I had agreed to do his cake and as the event approached I herd nothing but I did get an invite. The day of his actual birthday I had to stop by Ivan's to pick something up which meant I had to pass Belgum Cafe, so I stopped in to say Happy Birthday. He was all aglow and honestly looked happy to see me I told him I was unsure if I was going to the party.

After hanging out with the new thug in my life we made plans to go dressed to the nines.

The day of the party I went shopping got a new outfit and did my hair. I then got a message that my thug was not coming and I had already responded yes to the invite. At the party I got no hi or anything even when I tried to say happy birthday. So I spent time with his friends who told how he acts more like a princess now and I just felt great about me. Considering the outfit I was wearing I still looked like a boy and I was hot. He was wearing an outfit I seen several times before.

I met up with Icon and got drunker. The bartender at the party kept giving me doubles for the price of a single so I was already quite tipsy. I went to my new apartment around 1 and passed out.

A few days latter I began getting word that, “I won.” I asked Ivan what he meant and he told me that I had a social life, a job I liked, friends who liked me, and I was dating and having fun. Then I asked the girl who used to be my BFF and she said the same thing plus I was way better looking and she added how his friends all still liked me.

The news put me on cloud nine, however there is just one major issue, my shorts and belt. Everyone liked those shorts and the belt has memories and JR lives around the corner from Ivan. I still get his foursquare and I text him once in a blue moon and he doesn't respond but he is a looser and I am a winner.  

15 December 2011

Is It Just Sex?

In advertising sex sells, in humor sex jokes get the biggest laughs and in magazines sex articles are the most read. People like sex; we like to do it, read about it, watch it, laugh at it, and talk about it. Just think about it, how many times a day is something said that makes you think about sex? More often than not they are juvenile thoughts and major stretches you make to make something that has nothing to do with sex sound like it dose.

Recently I have taken it upon myself to do a little research into the world of sex facts and it is no surprise that the list is extensive. From facts about men, semen and their sex drive, women, sex organs, all the way to medieval stories about sex that have been recently changed into more appropriate Disney movies.

Some of the most interesting facts that I have found people to be more interested in are the ones not so much about sex organs but sexual fluids, semen to be more specific. There has been a long sexual debate about what to do with the stuff when performing Fellatio. I was shocked to find that the most common response is to swallow; this is by both guys and girls. (Source) I searched high and low to see if I could find a message board or poll that had the opposite view and all of them said the best thing to do is to swallow it. Many people even went on to describe it as simply warm liquid and that it should not be so difficult to do. I found it simply fascinating. I then decided to take a poll of my own and was shocked that almost all of my friends agree that swallow is done by an extremely high percentage of my friends.

A few more interesting semen facts, most men can shoot an easy ten feet, but one guy broke the record by shooting 18 feet he holds all the records as of now with greatest height, velocity and I would imagine amount. I could only imagine that to get hit with something like that at close range would hurt, so he has no choice but to pull out.  The oldest dad was 90 at the time, giving hope to us youngsters that you can still have a sex life well into our geriatric years because at age 73 most men are still potent and thanks to Viagra and Calis testing this theory is all the easier. 

To find sex facts are quite easy and they typically are the same from one web site to the next. Like when I was looking for the nutritional information for seamen. This is a fun one for everyone. While we know it is high in protein it also contains fructose a type of sugar, Water, Ascorbic acid (a.k.a., vitamin C), Citric acid, Enzymes, Protein, Phosphate and bicarbonate buffers, Zinc, and is a low calorie food at only about 6 calories per teaspoon. So you have even more reason to swallow.

Another group of attention-grabbing sex facts are pertaining to male endowments. Everyone wants to know what is the biggest, what is the smallest, and why is the average so small? I am happy to say I can answer them all. The smallest recorded was 1cm erect. Now how that counts I am not sure but it does and who did this recording is up in the air but this seems to be the confirmed smallest. I can tell you that the reason for this was a medical condition.  There are two that exist; there is micropenis where most of the penis resides inside the body and congenital hypoplasia, where the glands better known as the head, is attached directly to the pubis.

The largest penis ever recorded measured 13.5 inches long. This has happened twice in modern history once in the early 20th century and again at the end. Many of you might have herd of Private Dicks, an HBO special, that’s where this giant wonder hit the little screen back in 1999. I have not seen this special but it is all over the internet. The owner is unemployed and refuses to do porn; he has self respect, go figure. I have also not been able to find any pictures of it either so that’s the big and small of it.

Did you know that of all the primates Men have the largest penises? One would think the largest primate would have the largest penis but that’s not so. And while we are speaking of records you will be shocked to know that the largest baby ever born was done naturally without an epidural, the baby weighed in at 26 pounds with a head diameter of 6 inches or 15 cm meaning mom had the largest vagina and at 7 foot 8 it makes since. Most women are lucky if they dilate the full 10cm but this woman did it and went on to do an extra five. The baby however did not survive, 15cm was still a little small and it took work at both ends to get him out.

As far as records goes in regards to sex the list goes on and on. There is the, largest orgy, the most orgasms, or a quite interesting one, the longest some guy took to take care of himself (masturbated). Yeah believe it or not there is a contest for this, the one who holds out the longest is the winner and this guy held out for 9 hours and 58 minutes, one would think with that control he could have held out a little longer to make it an even 10 but I guess he is saving himself for the next go around. 

While people love to hear, talk, and joke about sex, they enjoy the act just as much and the most partners for a man in one hour was 52, he was supposed to have 101 but he got around to the rest two weeks later.  While men are known for wanting sex 24/7 based upon how often they get erections, on average 11 while awake and 9 at night, women are capable of having more partners in one day. One woman had 919 guys in one day. When we check out the most orgasms in an hour a woman had 134 and the man only 19. And you know the longer you go the longer it takes.
Men however prove to be more willing to go to great lengths for sex than women. 56% of men admit to have had sex at work; men are most likely to be the ones tied up during sex, and men are less shameful in their sexual endeavors. 60% percent of men admit to masturbation and while only 1 out of a 1000 men can perform Fellatio on themselves many more have tried.

So know that you know a lot more about sex and men than many of your friends here is a few tips to make your sex lives a little better. Men are easily aroused so if a simple kiss or genital rub is not enough to get things going try one of the following. The sent of lavender, licorice, chocolate, doughnuts, and pumpkin pie all increase blood flow to the penis. Apple pie causes arousal. Men are territorial and most modern men still enjoy marking territory, they do this by having sex so change the scene.

Remember that this is in fact a gay blog and most sex records involve Heterosexual acts. So if you know of some gay records let me know so I can write Gay Sex Facts.

14 December 2011

Go For It! Always?

Men come into your life constantly with promises of sweeping you off your feet and putting you on a pedestal but do noting to show you how much your worth. But the moment you seem disinterested, or interested in another they find the need to declare their love for you or how much they want you.

When you love a person or are interested in a person its simple, don't tell them show them. The other day someone proved to me that they knew when I was excited about something, they had saw me excited one time and was able to tell me how I acted and sounded. If was not sitting down already I would have fallen to the floor. I was shocked that they noticed. Why is it that someone who was not trying to sweep me off my feet or trying to get me to be theirs would remember something about me with such great detail, while the men who claim they want me could not?

All my life I feel I have always tried to chase after the men who supposedly were chasing after me, but in reality I was just wasting my time. Why do we do that? Why do we fall for the words without seeing it put into action first? If a guy says he is interested but only treats you as a friend then we should take it for face value. I had a teacher who always reminded my class that, actions speak louder than words. Maya Angelou said that if a person shows you who they are, or tells you, then we should believe them. Much to often we think we can change a person or that “love” will bring out the best in them and make them change.

The heart is an amazing organ capable of feeling things that not even our brains can comprehend. We allow it so often to operate on its own only to look back and see that we should have been protecting it when the wrong person was trying to steal it. We then go into over protection mode when someone who is genuine is trying to give us theirs. More often than not we fail to see the signs until its to late.

All our life we hear people telling us that life is to short, live it up, “carpe diem,” but how often do we honestly take such wisdom to heart. It would really seem that when it comes to matters of the heart that we are a little backwards. We listen when we should watch, listen when we should feel. It almost always happens that after we have a broken heart we tell ourselves, “I should have saw this coming,” or “i should have known when he said. . .”

With the parade of men that I have spoken about in the past there are a select few who have more in common than any others. All the ones who I should have steered clear of? Sure they showed me a good time and then told me how much they liked me, how different I was, how sexy, smart, and how much they wanted me. In the end it always came down to the same thing, they were not ready for a relationship, life was to crazy to get involved, afraid they were going to hurt me. I simply do not get it, why give a speech declaring how much you want someone if you are not going to peruse it? Why take someone on a date, have fun only to turn around and say, “You are what I have been searching for, but I am not ready.” that’s like going on a gold hunt, finding gold and leaving it behind because you're not ready to be a millionaire.

Why go on a search for something only to leave it behind?

13 December 2011

New Gay Socialite

I have a goal to become friends with 1000 people on Facebook and not just random people, Gays. I want to expand my network to include at least 500 gay men in the greater Philadelphia area. By doing such I will promote myself and rise up in the gay scene and become know as a classy fun down to earth gay male. I want to be a role model. The point to all of this is simple I am a social person and I would like to be one of the who’s who and then I will start with New York.

Unlike many other gays I will not use whatever “power” I have to make myself feel better but in turn try to bring others up as well if they so wish. How cool would that be to be able to send someone a message and they try to help you become a socialite as well.

So I know it’s a long shot but think about it. There are too many rich gays out there that are simply selfish, why would anyone aspire to that? Yes I want to be rich, sexy, well known, but I also want people to love me, NOT fear me. I want to have parties and invite everyone; I want to be invited to every party because I am fun and not a fan of the drama. Ah VixcB the peace keeper, that is me.

So to all my readers hit me up and tell your friends to read this blog. Soon I will be back on youtube.com

12 December 2011

It's Just Cheating

Cheating, it is a touchy subject that every relationship has to deal with in one of many ways. Gays tend to have the odds against them and have tried to deal with it as best we can. There are open relationships, forgiven constant infidelity, or rules set in place so that if someone is unfaithful there is a realm in which forgiveness must be granted.

Infidelity is typically discussed at some point in any relationship to let both parties know that they have gotten to the point of exclusivity. What defines cheating is how we define being exclusive. Some think of sex as a non essential in a relationship, some will say, “define the sex and you define the relationship” while others say it is all about how you look at sex. There is also the cop out of saying, you make love to your partner and have sex with everyone else.

I am not here to tell you what is or is not cheating just to tell you that cheating is not always about sex. And you would be shocked at how people can cheat.

Cheating, as the majority sees it, occurs when ever a person who is involved with another person emotionally and physically and has agreed that they share an exclusive bond. Then that person goes to another person for something that is supposed to be filled exclusively by that exclusive bond. I know how Webster of me.

According to this definition flirting, kissing, dirty dancing, romantic gifts, sex in all forms, and deep emotional conversations can be construed as cheating if they are part of you exclusive bond. However the only two people that can determine which are exclusive and which are not are the parties involved.

Sometimes a relationship is strictly emotional and the act of having sex with other partners does not infringe upon that, if said sex remains emotionless and animalistic. Typically cheating hits home on almost all levels weather you are gay or straight, when emotions are involved.  Sex is just sex, a kiss is just a kiss, and dancing is just dancing. How do you know when it is more, the unfortunate part is the only person who ever really knows is the person doing the cheating and sometimes the person they are cheating with.

Emotional cheating is the reality of knowing it was honestly a onetime thing, but in your heart and mind you allow it to repeat with the hope that it could happen again. Your heart races when you think about their touch and you smile when you think about how the act made you feel. Not to say if this defines cheating but when things get emotional that is when they typically get dangerous.

As odd as it may seem, at some point your partner and you need to talk this all out so that there are no surprises. And even still while sex may be the hard defined line of cheating in most relationships and others may be included, those that are not defined as line crossing may fall into a grey area and that is when you have to define what is unacceptable for you to do.

Cheating can also happen on a personal level, many of us set boundaries for ourselves. We make personal promises and swear we will never do such and such in hopes that it will prevent an unpleasant situation.  I think this is the best way to prevent cheating. If you cheat in a relationship and things end, the blame can be interpreted in many ways, but if you go out of the personal boundaries you set for yourself then you have no one to blame except you. So think about you and the man of your dreams. What would you say is ok for him to do, then apply that to yourself? Think about it, if you prepare yourself to treat him as you want to be treated then the ground rules are already set and cheating will really be cheating. No grey area to be interpreted.

11 December 2011

Heteronormatives - It Boils Down.


When it comes to men cohabitating I think it’s simple, wait. Moving in right away is almost never good for any relationship. Make sure you know and understand your partners rhythm before you move in. discuss how you clean and keep things. Discuss the importance in time apart and morning and evening habits. It’s great if you can spend random weeknights and weekends together this will help. But note if you fight about how the other treats your stuff and keeps his place, fix it before you move in. also it’s a good idea to make sure you are equally invested in your home and that you BOTH think of it as home. If one is constantly trying to make it a home and the other just sees it a place there will be issues. If one owns and the other is just there, there might be resentment.

I am talking from experience and having talked to friends who have dealt with all the included issues mentioned in this series I know that men can live together if the proper precautions are taken.

I like my space, my independence, I make no exceptions to my rules, and my clothes are mine and mine alone I do not share. My computer is mine it contains my life and that is sacred. My cooking instruments and cookbooks are just as sacred. These things are mine and I do not share them they are what make me happy and if am asked to share and I say no everyone should understand and if they don’t like it, you can deal with it or not deal with me.

It is important to have separate identities in a relationship, when one attaches to the other and EVERYTHING is shared then the sex dwindles, cheating occurs, and the relationship collapses.

I am no expert in inner working of all gay relationships I learn via trial and error, surveying friends, and even a little research via the web and books. So takes this advice knowing that there are exceptions to every rule because all people are different and a relationships dynamic can change at any moment.  

10 December 2011

Heteronormatives - Its Dynamic

The difference between a bottom and a woman is it is far simpler to figure out how to please a bottom and it is easier to keep him happy. A bottom will tell you what makes him happy and how you should do it, the bottom will tell you how the house should be cleaned, he will tell you what presents he wants, his favorite color, his favorite sexual position. A bottom will tell you several times until, time is up and he is fed up, the bottom is tired of talking to someone who doesn’t listen. When the bottom knows everything about you and you are still learning that’s when the red flags has been raised. When you know for a fact you are not doing what is being asked of you, red flag. When you are not getting laid on a regular basis, it’s a red flag. When the bottom just doesn’t seem to care about your feelings, you might want to throw in the towel.

How can you fix this? Well start doing what is asked of you, a bottom will return in kind?  If the bottom ask you to put things back a certain way, he will clean the house. When cohabitating it is tit for tat and his tat is dependent on your tit.

Bottoms run the show and there is nothing anyone can do to change it as Phil said it’s a hetero-normative.  I find it interesting how a Top will act like he runs the show and when sex starts dwindling wonder why. If you are a top and you are in the role of “the Male” meaning you have assumed the masculine roll you must remember you are still dating a man, men like space, independence, respect, and signs that they are loved. Paying the bills don’t count, showing them that you listen and respect will get you major points and a bottom who has a man who shows he is not perfect but tries will always have a loyal bottom.

09 December 2011

Heteronormatives - Sex

You can tell a lot about a relationship by how often two people are intimate. If there is lots of sex going on then things are going great or there is one happy bottom. When things are bad then there should be fear in the relationship.

I recently met a couple that has not had sex in three weeks. They were beginning to feel like roommates versus lovers. Among gays there are what can be called hetero-normatives, things such as the bottom representing the feminine and the top representing the masculine.

The bottom role is typically that which we associate with the woman in heterosexual relationships. The bottom is the one who associates sex with love and closeness while the top just likes the act all in itself. The bottom has to invest more into the sexual act because so much is required on their part, cleaning, moisturizing, trust, internal work.

Sex is easier for some bottoms than others, but there is always work involved. A total bottom has to make accommodations for something that is not very easy, turning a one way street into a two way highway. There is mussel retraining and flexing and forcing the body to go against normal impulses. This for many bottoms while enjoyable can be hard work and laying there is not JUST lying there. Then just when one has adjusted to the very basic of the act there tricks that now must be learned such as applying what we learned to different  positions. A top just has to thrust and get as much friction so that he may cum. While a bottom has to balance, muscle work, ignoring reflexes, pleasing his top and trying to get pleasure his self. It’s a lot of work to do when you are NOT in the mood.

Recently I was part of a conversation where some secrets were tossed to Mr. MeTo about the dynamics of a hetero-normative relationship.

The bottom runs the show, a pissed bottom gives no sex, and happy bottom can’t get enough sex. The happier the bottom the more sex the top will get. It is simple math and it would seem the more masculine the top the less they seem to want to try and fix it.

08 December 2011

Heteronormatives - P1

Over the years I have talked too many of my gay male friends about failed relationships and it would seem that moving in together is a real game changer. It is one of the things that proves to be completely different among gay men than heterosexual couples and lesbians. Lesbians are known for moving fast and cohabitating together relatively well. Heterosexuals it’s typically a 50/50 chance that it will work or fail. It leaves one to believe that the problem lies with men in general.

Men are by nature territorial, we like our own everything we share only with those we deem worthy and many times it comes with stipulations. For example a man will allow his friends to come to his house and watch the game but they have to be out at a certain time and they can only touch certain things. Women tend to be more ready to share completely. They will share clothes, makeup, beauty products, or even allow a friend to crash a few days. (Don’t worry I understand there are exceptions to every rule and generalization.)
  
Men are less willing to share any garment of clothing. We may share with our son or some other person we feel we have a responsibility to protect but as for the independent we want to share nothing more than time and maybe a good conversation.

Things get strange among gay men. We share with our best buds long before we share with anyone else. We understand the necessity in sharing and that the day will come when we need to borrow and so in all actuality it is selfish. My friend Phil and I are willing to share but we are both hesitant to actually borrow from one another not that we are scared but because we understand the strings that come attached. If I borrow from Phil I will have to worry about messing up whatever I borrow and if I do mess it up it must be replaced, there is no such thing as worry free borrowing among gay men.

When it comes to the point where everything is shared it doesn’t matter who we are sharing with, our territory is no longer our own and that infringes on how we identify ourselves. As I said before men only share certain things.

I will not share my cookbooks, my laptop, or my clothes, these are the thing I uses to identify and express myself, however when living with someone clothes get shared and boundaries are crossed all the time by accident.

I like my whites to stay white but in a relationship where the other person doesn’t care about such things it can get stressful. So how does one overcome the woes of cohabitation? How do you get two territorial males who are unwilling to share everything to happily get along? Is it possible for two extreme opposites to agree on living situations happily? If I had these answers I would share them with you.  

The difference between a bottom and a woman is it is far simpler to figure out how to please a bottom and it is easier to keep him happy. A bottom will tell you what makes him happy and how you should do it, the bottom will tell you how the house should be cleaned, he will tell you what presents he wants, his favorite color, his favorite sexual position. A bottom will tell you several times until time is up and the bottom is tired of talking to someone who doesn’t listen. When the bottom knows everything about you and you are still learning that’s when red flags should be raised. When you know for a fact you are not doing what is being asked of you, red flag. When you are not getting laid on a regular basis, it’s a red flag. When the bottom just dosent seems to care about your feelings, you might want to throw in the towel.

How can you fix this well start doing what is asked of you, a bottom will return in kind?  If the bottom ask you to put things back a certain way, he will clean the house. When cohabitating it is tit for tat and his tat is dependent on your tit.

Bottoms run the show and there is nothing anyone can do to change it as Phil said it’s a hetero-normative.  I find it interesting how a Top will act like he runs the show and when sex dwindles wonders why. If you are a top and you are in the role of “the Male” meaning you pay the bills and provide all the basics you must remember you are still dating a man, men like space, independence, respect, and signs that they are loved. Paying the bills don’t count, showing them that you listen and respect will get you major points and a bottom who has a man who shows he is not perfect but tries will always have a loyal bottom.