Posted June 21st, 2010 by 1stofficer
Mancentral have threatened Mothership Gay Dating with legal action over remarks made on Mothership about the Mancentral ‘promise‘ over its ‘100% free’ messages.
The ManCentral "promise"
In a recent post in the Mothership Blog (which followed a Mothership Gay Forums post made by a Mancentral member) I followed up on questions that were raised about Mancentral’s prominent home page statement that it was ‘100% free’ to contact other members. In fact only 10 messages can be sent for free in a 24 hour period, after which Mancentral members must pay.
Mancentral’s PR manager Lee Martin emailed Mothership requesting
that you remove this inaccurate and damaging information immediately
and that Read the rest of this entry »
Posted June 16th, 2010 by outerlimits
Amputees are very sexy
I once laughed to hear someone I know picked up another guy and was shocked to find him detaching a prosthetic leg before getting into bed. Then one summer day outside Comptons gay pub in Soho a guy with a missing left arm smiled at me as he carefully balanced his pint on the windowsill. To my surprise I had to admit to myself that I fancied him, not out of sympathy, but in spite of his disability.
Gay advertising bombards us with images of near physical perfection.If we could imagine widespread acceptance of Tom of Finland men drawn as amputees in gay publications, then the transmutation of a taboo might just be possible. Or would the S &M element that is an integral part of the muscle academy school invite accusations of sick art and decadence? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted June 5th, 2010 by 1stofficer
ManCentral lies
One of Mothership Gay Dating’s members has recently complained about ManCentral on our Gay Forums.
Basically he is saying that Man Central promise that they are 100% free to contact other members, but when he tried to send message to other members he was prevented from sending any more than 10 messages unless he paid to upgrade his membership.
What Man Central promise
On the Man Central home page they state “100% FREE TO CONTACT OTHER MEMBERS” in capital letters in two places, one of them directly above their sign up box.
What Man Central deliver
Man Central allow 10 free messages a day. After that you must pay to upgrade to a higher membership tier in order to continue to send messages.
Are Man Central 100% Free to Contact Other Members?
No. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted May 17th, 2010 by 1stofficer
So we’ve all heard that tired old line:
“You’ve got to love yourself first before you can love someone else”,
and gay guys seem to quote it just as much as anyone else.
Everyone has the right to say I love you!
Well I don’t buy it!
I’m sure that anyone who says you must love yourself before you can love someone else says so with the best of intentions. If nothing else they are emphasising that it is important that we have a healthy love for ourselves.
Fair enough. I’ll come back to this.
What I don’t buy however is that if you don’t love yourself then it should follow you can’t love someone else! Why not? Read the rest of this entry »
Posted May 10th, 2010 by outerlimits
In my late teens I spent three years investigating Spiritualism, attending services at a Christian Spiritualist church in West Yorkshire, and sitting in a ‘development circle’ with the aspiration to develop powers of clairvoyance and clairaudience, the clear seeing and hearing of those who had preceded us to the next world.
Most mediums encountered at that time were little old ladies, in contrast to many present-day handsome, young gay men who smile out from book covers, and have become stage and tv celebrities. In that sense I feel I was an unwitting pioneer, surfing the great wave of curiosity that has swept gay mediums to the forefront of the movement. So why are we as gay men attracted to a religion that had its origins in mysterious rappings reported by a couple of girls called Fox in nineteenth-century rural America? Read the rest of this entry »
