The ick factor from a comedy show I watched last night

[dsc]

I went to a comedy show last night featuring a group called FUCT out of New York. One of their skits is a kissing lesson where two guys act out a very long, intense kiss (frenching, ear and lip nibbling, etc.) I was the only gay in my row (front) and it was very clear just how awful the men around me found that kiss. Sorry to say that is our problem. This was a group which had gone to a show that advertised itself as offensive and featuring male nudity and yet even this crowd found a gay kiss gross. It was a great show, it sent some great messages (the fable about same sex marriage was hilarious and got the point across well) but still, on that fundamental level, two guys kissing even grosses out liberals. Can we ever be taken seriously as moral agents as long as that is true? Will people give people who gross them out, the right to sanctify that which grosses them out? It remains to be seen.

[mirrera]

1. My son thinks it is gross when his mom and dad kiss... still its legal and we kiss anyway.. ;)

[sasquatch]

2. My reaction to two guys kissing is similar to that of when someone w/old fillings-

chews tinfoil.

[GodlessBiker]

9. I get the same feeling when a man and woman kiss. I hate going to those straight romantic comedies.

[sasquatch]

20. I think everyone other than straight women like those damned things

[jonmiller74]

13. your mouth gets juicy?????

[beaglelover]

14. LOL!! (nt)

[sasquatch]

17. No, but that's very funny

:rofl:
Now two girls on the other hand.
:9

[sui generis]

22. it's because if men kiss we view it only as sexual

while if a hetero couple kisses it can be seen as "romantic"

I say we own it bitches! If I kiss a guy it's because I LIKE it. And chances are that's just the appetizer.

We are sexualized, but whatever the case, it's nobody's fucking business. Americans are prudes and sexually insecure and THAT's why it's uncomfortable, not because it's two guys or two gals.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Does it help if I say

I don't like to see heteros kissing in such a manner in public or even on stage or screen?

[queerart]

8. I'm With You......

Take it inside......


Anyone making out in such a way for others to watch is "odd behavior".....


I have a theory about public affection (and before anyone says I'm an unfeeling bastard, think about it).....


People who do it (going way past a kiss in public that one would share with a partner after not seeing them for the whole day).... make out in this way in public to show ownership, and to stir the emotions of eroticism as in Endorphin Addiction.....


stories on Endorphin Addiction:

http://pages.prodigy.net/unohu/endorphins.htm



But hardly ever/never do treat their partner in this same "overly affectionate" way in private, when there is no audience.


I've know countless couples that "dry hump" on a pool table at the bars.... (only to speak with one of the partners in private to discover in reality... there has been no intimacy in months)......

[rusty charly]

4. =

Quentin Crisp once compared homosexuality to liking peas: People who hate peas are glad they do, because otherwise, if they liked them, they might have to eat them.

[dsc]

5. well I do hate peas

inherited that from my father. The texture and taste just make me sick.

[Vanje]

6. Homophobic Liberals!!??

I'm Shocked.
Shocked!

[meegbear]

11. Thank goodness there aren't any here ...

It's so comforting and safe here. :sarcasm:

[Midlodemocrat]

19. meegbear, you silly.

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[Libertyfirst]

7. Long intense kisses by anyone turn me off unless I am participating. n/t

[Zuiderelle]

10. Some things just make people uncomfortable, and that doesn't mean that they are homophobic.

I might not be uncomfortable with it, because I've had a diverse sort of life, but most people I know (and none of them are homophobic) would be uncomfortable with sitting on the front row of a theater watching two of anyone make out like that.

I'm sure there was probably a hint of "I have to act grossed out because I don't like what watching these two guys is making me feel" (because, as we all know, arousal really doesn't always have to do with our orientation). I don't really think that's homophobia. That's just human nature.

I don't go around letting others witness me and my partner making out like that. I'm sure we'd make a lot of people uncomfortable if we did. And it wouldn't be because they are homophobic.

[jonmiller74]

12. Most people are just uncomfortable with sex in general..

PDA, just reminds them of their own repression. Being gay doesn't make us less repressed just repressed in different ways. I don't know how many times I've tried to have an adult conversation with straight and gay friends about sex only to have their own shame prevent it.

[Eryemil]

21. You mean most Americans right?

[beaglelover]

15. I have no problem with seeing

any two people kiss in public. M/F, F/F, M/M. I like seeing people being affectionate.

[trickyguy]

16. We need more kissing, not less. Get used to it.

[Orsino]

18. It's the "unmanliness," the inversion of stereotypical sex roles, that frightens them...

...and they hide their fear behind feigned nausea.

[sui generis]

23. no - it's sex, not unmanliness.

Kissing between two hot men is hot.

they're afraid they'll grow some wood if they approve.