Posted on December 11th, 2007 by Elliott
A story by Wayne Besen from his weekly column on 365gay came to my attention about the mankind project and reminded me how all my friends are total nellie faggots. As the story notes, a main tenant of the ex-gay movement for men is reclaiming one’s masculinity (side note: how can you reclaim what was never there to begin with?).
And of course masculinity is typically associated with the athletic - because what’s more virile than donning some skimpy lycra number and rubbing bumpy parts with other sweaty, muscly men? Except maybe sneaking glances at the dangling members of your fellow rugby players in a locker room that is thick with steam and the intoxicating musk of male body odor. And your teammate next to you bends over to reach for something in his locker, exposing his pert butt cheeks and then, ultimately, his tight manhole. It’s so crowded in the locker room that you are nearly on top of him, and you casually turn, so that your now semi-erect penis ever-so-delicately brushes against his bare thigh. He stands up when he feels it and you touch his shoulder gently and say “I’m so sorry, it’s so crowded in here.” And he says “That’s okay, I understand.” And then he bends over again, looking subtly over his shoulder.
But really, I’ve stopped having sex in the gym locker room. I promise.
Anyway, according to the story “several ex-gay organizations began outsourcing to a paramilitary, pseudo-psychological outfit, The ManKind Project. Ex-gay programs…have aggressively promoted The ManKind Project’s New Warrior Training Adventure.” Which sounds like fun, right? Like it should be a program where they dress you up as Indians and you run around committing scalpicide and opening casinos.
But apparently it’s not. Apparently participants are met by “large, intimidating men dressed in dark clothing and faces painted black.” Which still sounds fun to me. I mean, who doesn’t love blackface, right?
The article continues: “During their stay, the men are forced to take cold showers, survive on four hours sleep, and subsist on very little food.” And? This is my life on a daily basis. Welcome to the working class.
But apparently things get much worse than that. In a letter written by a man who later committed suicide (apparently due to his participation in the camp), “the New Warrior program practiced bizarre rituals” that include:
1. Blindfolded walking tours in the nude
2. People blowing sage smoke in his face while 50 or so naked men danced around candles.
3. Men sitting in a circle discussing their sexual histories while passing a wooden dildo called ‘The Cock’
4. Naked men beating cooked chickens with a hammer.
Again, so what? Haven’t any of these people been to Burning Man before? Or college? Same thing.
But it gets a little more interesting when the article mentions how participants would sit around in a big circle naked and permitted to touch each other’s dicks if they chose. Ah, memories. Why, it feels like just yesterday I was sitting in a circle of unwashed hetero frat boys after doing a beer bong when one of them suggested a game of Never Have I Ever, which resulted in mass snoodling before we roofied ourselves and had unprotected anal sex and then pretended nothing happened the next morning. Oh, college, how I miss you.
Anyway, the moral of the story is: where can I buy some GHB?
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December 11th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Unfornately, I do have to provide the author’s update on that article.
It still doesn’t change the fact that the camp is massively sexy in a “rape” sort of way.
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ben reply on December 13, 2007:
there was totally a real sex / hbo episode about this a few years ago. i learned the “twist … and shout!” technique. also, old men look totz grody nakes.