The first thing that struck me when I read Mr Rogers' article was this sentence:

"And it doesn't mean I'm not grateful -- over the last few decades, those hordes of kinky gay men paved the way for my sexual freedom."

It struck me first off because it isn't true on at least two levels:

1. It conflates "sexual freedom" with civil rights.

   Yet the "right" to have public sex -- if "sex" is what you choose to call it -- is not the same as, nor did it bring about --

   the right to write about witnessing such acts in Salon -- or the NY Times -- and not get fired.

   Those are two very different things.

   Guys having public or semi-public sex at the Black Party is NOT the reason that Mr Rogers has civil rights protections that I didn't when I was his age.

   Indeed -- and I know this well because I was there for the fight -- guys having public sex was an impediment to obtaining those civil rights.

2. Mr Rogers doesn't have "sexual freedom" in any true sense -- and he's certainly less sexually free than I was when I came out in 1972.

   Because -- Mr Rogers is expected to do anal.

   I wasn't.

   Big difference.

   Mr Rogers isn't sexually free.

   To the contrary -- you'll notice he says that the behavior at the Black Party seemed "compulsive."

   And that's correct -- in the cultural sense:

   It's *culturally* compelled and coerced behavior.

   And you can see that compulsion at work with Mr Rogers himself when he says "I was a monogamist by nature, but I longed to be more adventurous in sex."

   That longing, as he makes clear in his article, is due to cultural pressure manifested by his peers:

   my older friends visited bathhouses and cruised the park in my Portuguese neighborhood. "You'd be surprised by how hot those men behind the bushes are," one of them told me. "Too bad they're all married with kids."

   So -- his so-called friends encouraged him to engage in the worst and most dangerous sorts of promiscuity -- anonymous sex in bathhouses and public parks -- with multiple partners.

   Thus and de facto denigrating his natural and manly yearning for Fidelity -- what he calls "monogamy."

   Again, those sorts of peer messages from "friends" undermining the male's natural yearning for Fidelity and mandating sexual promiscuity, no matter how dangerous, constitute a cultural compulsion.

   They're one of the ways the culture -- in this case analism -- COMPELS compliant behavior.

   Once again, that behavior isn't innate.

   It's CUTURALLY compelled.

   Indeed, even the title of the article -- "The gay sex event that made me a prude" -- is a cultural message.

   The message being, in this case, that if someone spewing his rectal secretions into a crowd makes you uncomfortable, you're a "prude" -- "prude" being, in our hedonist culture, a truly derogatory term -- virtually identical, in this case, to "erotophobe."

   "Erotophobia" is supposed to indicate an irrational fear of the erotic.

   Which begs the question -- is getting a urine enema or putting pool balls up your ass "erotic?"

   Not to me.

   To me, it has nothing to do with eroticism.

   And to me, Mr Rogers isn't a prude.

   He's simply, as one of our guys said years ago, and in this instance, being prudent.

   An observation which, believe me, will not wash with Mr Rogers' analist buddies.

   And you know, it's interesting, but the word "prude" itself appears nowhere in the article other than the title; making me wonder whether the title was Mr Rogers' choice -- or that of his editor.

   In which latter case, the title is even more of a cultural message.

But -- beyond those two points, what struck me most in reading Rogers was the huge disconnect between his use of the word "freedom" ; and that of ancient philosophers like Sokrates (469 - 399 BC), Plato (427 - 448 BC), and Plutarch (ca 50 - 120 AD).

Because to Men like Sokrates, Plato, and Plutarch, true freedom is known only to those who have *rational* control of their passions.

So:

In the ancient world, a given of moral philosophy, starting at least with Sokrates, and really earlier, was that a man should control his passions;

not the passions control the man.

Again, that was a given, a commonplace.

As you know if you've read Prudence or the Pill -- which is MUST reading -- don't skip it -- READ IT --

Sophrosyne -- self-control -- was *the* pivotal Greek civic and communal virtue.

Central to Greek Life.

A Man controls his passions.

They don't control him.

He controls them.

Thus the Palaistra -- the Fight School -- which is also the School of the Mind.

What's taught there is CONTROLLED Aggression;

And the ability to Think -- to REASON.

Body and Mind.

And again, and for both, Self-Control is core.

The Divine Virtues, according to Plato -- and others -- were:

Justice, Courage, Self-Control, Wisdom, Piety

Self-control is always the pivot.

And a Man -- and the upper-case M is appropriate in this instance -- controls his passions using Reason -- which is a divine attribute.

Thus, you find a Platonist philosopher like Plutarch writing an essay on "How to Measure Moral Progress."

That essay was well known both in the ancient world and then from the Renaissance forward.

It was a piece that boys routinely studied in school.

And its values were mainstream values.

It's only been relatively recently that promiscuity, for example, has been considered "masculine" or "manly."

In the ancient world, the opposite was the case.

Promiscuity was associated with effeminacy and weakness in general.

It was not seen as a male or manly trait.

So, and again, to Men like Sokrates, Plato, and Plutarch, true freedom is known only to those who have *rational* control of their passions.

This was a huge issue in the Athens and Greece of Sokrates' and Plato's day, because to the average Greek, and under the sway of the sophists and rhetoricians -- Gorgias was a famous teacher of rhetoric, and in the debate in Plato's Gorgias, which we've often discussed, and will again, Callicles is his pupil --

So -- to the Greeks of Sokrates' day, and enamoured as so many were -- fatally as it turned out -- with the idea of personal freedom -- the freest man was the tyrant -- the Greek dictator.

Because he could fulfill any sensual desire.

A tyrant could seize property -- and it wasn't theft.

A tyrant could force a woman -- or man -- sexually -- and it wasn't rape.

And a tyrant could kill someone -- and it wasn't murder.

A tyrant could do anything he wanted.

So -- wasn't he, then, the most free of any human?

NO -- said first Sokrates and then Plato.

Because clearly the tyrant was being ruled by his passions.

Now -- Plato as it happens had up-close and personal contact with two of the most powerful, rich, and debauched tyrants of his day -- Dionysius the Elder and Dionysius the Younger of Syracuse.

Which was a very wealthy Greek city-state in Sicily.

Plutarch describes what went down between Plato and Dionysius pere et fils -- in his Life of Dion -- Dion was a Syracusan aristocrat who was related by marriage to the tyrants and who led a revolt against the younger of them:

Dion was a brother of Aristomache [,wife of the Syracusan tyrant Dionysius the Elder], and at first was honoured because of his sister; afterwards, however, he gave proof of his wisdom, and was presently beloved by the tyrant for his own sake. In addition to all his other favours, Dionysius ordered his treasurers to give Dion whatever he asked, although they were to tell Dionysius on the same day what they had given. But though Dion was even before of a lofty character, magnanimous, and manly, he advanced still more in these high qualities when, by some divine good fortune, Plato came to Sicily.

This was not of man's devising, but some heavenly power, as it would seem, laying far in advance of the time a foundation for the liberty of Syracuse, and devising a subversion of tyranny, brought Plato from Italy to Syracuse and made Dion his disciple. Dion was then quite young, but of all the companions of Plato he was by far the quickest to learn and the readiest to answer the call of virtue, as Plato himself has written [in the Seventh Epistle], and as events testify.

For though he had been reared in habits of submission under a tyrant, and though he was fully accustomed to a life that was subservient and timorous, as well as to ostentatious service at court and vulgar luxury and a regimen that counts pleasures and excesses as the highest good, nevertheless, as soon as he got a taste of a rational philosophy which led the way to virtue, his soul was speedily on fire; and since he very artlessly and impulsively expected, from his own ready obedience to the call of higher things, that the same arguments would have a like persuasive force with Dionysius, he earnestly set to work and at last brought it to pass that the tyrant, in a leisure hour, should meet Plato and hear him discourse.

At this meeting the general subject was human virtue, and most of the discussion turned upon manliness. And when Plato set forth that tyrants least of all men had this quality, and then, treating of justice, maintained that the life of the just was blessed, while that of the unjust was wretched, the tyrant, as if convicted by his arguments, would not listen to them, and was vexed with the audience because they admired the speaker and were charmed by his utterances.

[emphases mine]

Plut. Dio 5.1, translated by Perrin

Indeed -- Dionysius was so vexed that he had Plato put on a ship with a Spartan who was instructed to either kill him or sell him into slavery.

Plutarch says Plato was sold into slavery; what happened is that the Spartan had the ship land at a city-state which was at war with Athens, and which automatically enslaved any Athenian citizen who fell into its grasp. If that's so, Plato would have been ransomed by the Athenians -- one hopes almost immediately -- and returned to Athens.

Now: What's interesting to me is the way Manliness, Virtue, and Justice are tied together in Plato's thought.

In fact, Manliness, Virtue, Justice, and Reason are tied together, are in fact inextricably intertwined, in Plato's thought.

As they are in most ancient thought.

And the tyrant -- who's the slave of his passions -- is the least manly, least virtuous, least reasonable, and least just of men -- and thus the least free.

This is what Plutarch, writing about 500 years after Plato's near-fatal meeting with Dionysius, says in a separate essay, titled On Listening:

Now absence of control, which some of the young men, for want of education, think to be freedom, establishes the sway of a set of masters, harsher than the teachers and attendants of childhood, in the form of the desires, which are now, as it were, unchained.[1]

. . .

You, on the other hand, have often been told that following God and listening to reason are identical; so bear in mind that for intelligent people, the passage from childhood to adulthood is not a change of rules, but an abandoment of ruler; instead of someone whose services are hired and bought, they accept in their lives the divine leadership of reason -- and it is only those who follow reason who deserve to be regarded as free.

For they alone, having learned to wish for what they ought, live as they wish; but in untrained and irrational impulses and actions there is something ignoble, and changing one's mind many times involves but little freedom of will.

. . .

And so you, who have been brought up for a long time in contact with philosophy, and have from the beginning been accustomed to philosophic reasoning as an ingredient in every portion of early instruction and information, ought to feel like an old friend and familiar when you come to philosophy, which alone can array young men in the manly and truly perfect adornment that comes from reason.

So, we have:

"absence of control, which some of the young men, for want of education, think to be freedom, establishes the sway of a set of masters, harsher than the teachers and attendants of childhood, in the form of the desires, which are now, as it were, unchained.[1]" --

And there's a footnote -- [1] -- which, no matter which translation you use, always references:

[1] Plato's Republic Book VIII, sections 560 passim

What does Plato say in the Republic, Book VIII, etc, which was written ca 380 BC?

Well, Plato's talking about a young male who's a hedonist, a pleasure-seeker, and he says

. . . he does not accept or admit into the guard-house [of his soul] the words of truth when anyone tells him that some pleasures arise from honorable and good desires, and others from those that are base [1], and that we ought to practise and esteem the one and control and subdue the others; but he shakes his head at all such admonitions and avers that they are all alike and to be equally esteemed.

Plat. Rep. 8.561c, translated by Shorey

So -- the young pleasure-seeker refuses to face the fact that some pleasures are good and honorable, and others base -- instead insisting that "they are all alike and to be equally esteemed."

Mr Rogers:

[These were among] my long-cherished beliefs about sex and gayness: that sex in all of its forms was awesome, that gay men's permissive attitudes toward it were much saner than the straight community's, and that events like this one were a healthy celebration of the most transgressive elements of gay life

And, in my view, that's a good statement of analist and hedonist thinking: that sex in all its forms is awesome, including the "transgressive elements," and that such a stance is "saner" than its opposite -- the acknowledgment that some pleasures are good, and others not.

Now -- where do those "long-cherished beliefs" of Mr Rogers come from?

Was he born, for example, believing them?

No, of course not.

These are cultural beliefs, and Mr Rogers was acculturated into them over the years primarily, one would think nowadays, via the internet, and then via peer messages -- and it's possible that he did some "LGBT studies" or "queer theory" in college, etc., as well.

What he hadn't done, clearly, prior to going to the Black Party, is actually THOUGHT THROUGH -- REASONED THROUGH -- what those beliefs meant in practice.

Instead, they were in the nature of what historians of ideas call "received ideas" -- stuff he's been told, and which he's accepted without further inspection.

They are, in short, the conventional wisdom of his "tribe" -- the "gay" community.

And like most conventional wisdom, they come up woefully short -- when actually examined.

But again, their origin is CULTURAL.

How many thousands of times after all, and in his young life, has Mr Rogers heard, in the so-called gay community, some variant on this phrase:

"It's all sex and it's all good"?

Many thousands, I'm sure, since Mr Rogers refers to these as "long-cherished beliefs":

It's all sex and it's all good.

But it isn't -- not to the ancients, and not in particular to Plato -- who tells us that

some pleasures arise from honorable and good desires, and others from those that are base [1]

; and you'll notice that again there's a footnote, [1], at the word "base," and here's what the footnote says:

[1] An obvious reference to the Gorgias. Cf. Gorg. 494 E

Don't believe me?

Here's the link, footnote and all.

So, and as you can see, the footnote says

[1] An obvious reference to the Gorgias. Cf. Gorg. 494 E

The Gorgias is another book by Plato.

What happens at Gorg. 494 E?

Well, that's where, in the course of a heated debate with a hedonist and amoralist named Callicles, Sokrates takes out the analists:

Socrates. Come now, let me tell you another parable:

Consider if each of the two lives, the temperate and the licentious, might be described by imagining that each of the two men had a number of jars; the one man has his jars sound and full, one of wine, another of honey, and a third of milk, besides others filled with other things, and the sources which fill them are scanty and difficult, and he can only obtain them with a great deal of hard toil. Well, one man, when he has taken his fill, neither draws any more nor troubles himself a jot, but remains at ease on that score. The other, in like manner, can procure sources, though not without difficulty; but his vessels are leaky and unsound, and night and day he is compelled to fill them constantly, and if he pauses for a moment, he is in an agony of extreme distress. If such is the nature of each of the two lives, do you say that the licentious man has a happier one than the orderly? Do I not convince you that the opposite is the truth?

Callicles. You do not convince me, Socrates, for the one who has filled himself has no longer any pleasure left; and this, as I was just now saying, is the life of a stone: he has neither joy nor sorrow after he is once filled; but a pleasant life consists rather in the largest possible amount of inflow.

Soc. Well then, if the the inflow be large, must not that which runs away be of large amount also, and the holes for such outflow be of great size?

Cal. Certainly.

Soc. The life which you are now depicting is not that of a dead man, or of a stone, but of a plover [a bird thought to drink and then to eject the liquid]; you mean that he is to be hungering and eating?

Cal. Yes.

Soc. And he is to be thirsting and drinking?

Cal. Yes, that is what I mean; he is to have all his desires about him, and to be able to live happily in the gratification of them.

Soc. Capital, excellent; go on as you have begun, and have no shame; I, too, must disencumber myself of shame: and first, will you tell me whether you include itching and scratching, provided you have enough of them and pass your life in scratching, in your notion of happiness?

Cal. What a strange being you are, Socrates! a regular stump-orator.

Soc. That was the reason, Callicles, why I scared Polus and Gorgias, until they were too modest to say what they thought; but you will not be too modest and will not be scared, for you are such a manly fellow. And now, answer my question.

Cal. I answer, that even the scratcher would live pleasantly.

Soc. And if pleasantly, then also happily?

Cal. To be sure.

Soc. But what if the itching is not confined to the head? Shall I pursue the question? And here, Callicles, I would have you consider how you would reply if consequences are pressed upon you, especially if in the last resort you are asked, whether the life of a catamite is not terrible, shameful, and wretched? Or would you venture to say, that they too are happy, if they only get enough of what they want?

Cal. Are you not ashamed, Socrates, of introducing such topics into the argument?

Soc. Well, my fine friend, but am I the introducer of these topics, or he who says without any qualification that all who feel pleasure in whatever manner are happy, and who admits of no distinction between good and bad pleasures? And I would still ask, whether you say that pleasure and good are the same, or whether there is some pleasure which is not a good?

Plat. Gorg. 494e, translated by Jowett and Lamb

Sokrates asks, "Is there some pleasure which is not a good?"

And he then asks:

whether the life of a catamite is not terrible, shameful, and wretched?

And the word "catamite" in the original Greek is kinaidos, that is, a male who's anally passive, and/or who participates in anal penetration.

Someone who's lewd and shameless.

And the link I've provided will take you to the passage in both English and Greek -- if you read Greek.

If you don't, find someone who does and check out the meaning of kinaidos.

So, and once again:

Socrates asks, "Is there some pleasure which is not a good?"

And the word "catamite" in the original Greek is kinaidos, that is, one who is anally passive, and/or who participates in anal penetration.

That is, an analist.

"Is there some pleasure which is not a good?"

Anal.

Anal is not a good.

And the life of an analist, says Sokrates, is "terrible, shameful, and wretched."

And Callicles doesn't dare disagree with him.

Because the cultural prohibition against anal is too severe.

I have no question that privately, Callicles thinks anal is okay.

That to his mind, "If it feels 'good,' do it!" and "It's all sex and it's all good!" -- are imperatives.

But he doesn't dare say so -- regarding anal.

Because again, the cultural prohibition against anal is too severe.

As it should be.

These thinkers -- Sokrates, Plato, Plutarch -- and their works are not, it must be emphasized, incidental or minor in the Western canon.

They're important -- to put it mildly.

So:

The question at Gorgias 494 E is -- are the pleasant and the good -- the same?

And Sokrates brings up anal -- and says -- isn't the life of a kinaidos / catamite -- someone who's anally passive -- shameful, terrible, and wretched?

And Callicles is forced -- at least publically -- to agree.

So -- the pleasant and the good are NOT the same thing.

Which is obvious.

When a tyrant rapes a woman, he feels pleasure -- but the act can't be called good.

Similarly, when a top fucks a bottom, he feels pleasure -- but if in doing that he gives the bottom HIV, the act can't be called good.

And of course -- that's just in modern terms.

To the ancients, anal was NEVER good.

Nor should it be to us.

Yet in our society, cultural messages extolling anal -- including but hardly limited to the Black Party -- are everywhere.

Cultural Message
This sort of image, which models analist rape,
and misleadingly presents the bottom as erect,
is common on the web

Next question Sokrates asks -- should the pleasant serve the good or the good the pleasant?

Answer -- the former:

Pleasure should exist only to serve Virtue.

We'll look more closely at that idea below.

But it's a common Greek cultural value.

So -- these sorts of judgements are *culturally* driven.

Recently, guys, I saw, in a left-wing Jewish publication, the following statement by an "openly-gay" and anti-circumcision -- that is analist -- male:

Anything which reduces sexual pleasure is repugnant to me.

Hmmmm.

Kinda makes you wonder how he feels about condoms -- which without question reduce sexual pleasure, and which are core to the "safer sex" aspect of the analist creed.

Which teaches that no one is responsible for transmitting HIV, but that everyone is responsible for "protecting" himself -- via the condom.

It's a tad like saying that no one is responsible for the Housing Bubble or the Credit Crunch -- but that everyone -- which de facto means the 99%, so-called -- is responsible for enduring the ensuing mess.

Especially the poor.

It's the poor who are expected, via unemployment and budget cuts, to take it on the chin for the sins -- of the very, very rich.

So -- if you're poz and you infect someone -- you get a free pass.

Just as --

if you're rich and you shatter the financial system -- you get a free pass -- too.

Which suggests there's a link between our contemporary dominant economic culture of greed-and-growth;

and the dominant sexual cultures of hedonism, pansexualism, and analism.

greed and hedonism

Even though their proponents tend to sit on opposite sides of the political fence.

It's as a friend of mine once said -- "Gay men are the shocktroops of capitalism."

Case in point -- Steve Jobs, who had a huge "gay" following.

While Wall Street contributed vast sums in support of "gay marriage."

In any case, in the ancient world, the sentence "Anything which reduces sexual pleasure is repugnant to me" would have immediately be seen for what it is -- an INDEFENSIBLE statement of hedonism, and would have IMMEDIATELY been opposed by the only defendable response:

Apollo, God of Reason, stops the rape of the Lapith women by the Centaurs, who are drunk and thus vulnerable to their most base passions

The question is -- how do you get this across to someone like Mr Rogers?

He has an inkling of it -- because he characterizes the behavior at the Black Party as "compulsive."

Plutarch would agree.

But then Rogers says "those hordes of kinky gay men paved the way for my sexual freedom."

Well -- it can't be both.

It can't be both compelled -- and free.

Right?

Freedom means the freedom to rationally choose how you behave.

Basically, Plato's idea -- which is very Greek -- is that you teach children and then young men how to both fight and think -- and by think, he means reason -- and that then they have the basis and tools by which to choose.

And, by the way, when Plato talks about Fighting and Thinking -- he's not fooling around.

Just as flab won't cut it in a Fight -- so does Reason, Plato makes clear, require the development of hard intellectual muscle.

Now:

Plato says that some pleasures are necessary and some aren't;

that some are benign and beneficent; and others malign and malignant.

Which is clearly true.

But if I said that to Mr Rogers, he'd just roll his eyes and say, You're that anti-sex crank Bill Weintraub.

Yet I'm not anti-sex.

I'm anti-anal.

There's a difference.

And my anti-anal reasoning is sound.

Recently, one of the straight-identified guys on the site -- we'll call him "Mike" -- and who's into fight sports -- wrote to another:

Being "romantic" with another guy? It just sounds so weird. I want to kick his ass.

And rub cocks with him -- Mike leaves that out.

But that's what he wants to do -- fight a guy and rub cocks with him.

But he quails at the word "romantic" -- because he thinks "romance" is "gay."

Here's the irony:

Of all the male-male models I know, the analist is the LEAST romantic.

Read what Rogers describes -- guys getting cue balls stuffed up their ass in public.

"not an intimate act at all," he observes.

And he's right.

It's not intimacy.

And it's certainly not romantic.

And yet male-male has a vast, extremely romantic, mythologic and historic heritage.

Read Gilgamesh and The Mingling of Their Bones, guys.

Analism has nothing to do with that.

The Greeks gave us Poseidon and Pelops, Apollo and Hyacinth, Achilles and Patroclus, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Alexander and Hephaestion.

Athenian tyrannicides Aristogeiton and Harmodius

Plus

Constitutional government, civil liberties, free exchange of ideas, self-critique, private property, capitalism, and separation between religious and political/scientific thought.

That list is the creation of classicist Victor Davis Hanson.

And Hanson omits all the glorious art, drama, literature, etc. -- plus the communalism of the Spartans and Greek philosophy in general.

That's what the Greeks -- and their system of male-male predicated upon Virtue -- gave us.

The analists have given us -- urine enemas

fisting

and AIDS.

There is NOTHING romantic about analism.

It's thoroughly nasty -- and that's all it is.

So:

Here's the analist-top version of what Mike said:

Being "romantic" with another guy? It just sounds so weird. I want to fuck his ass.

All I had to do was change one word -- actually, just two letters -- from kick to fuck.

no romance

"no romance"

That's been the analist credo for years.

Fuck as many guys as you can.

Don't worry about infecting them.

It's their job to "protect" themselves.

Because :

It's all sex and it's all good.

No -- it isn't.

So -- we're often told -- it's the politically correct line after all, and Rogers echoes it, that urine enemas and 8-balls up the ass are somehow evidence of "freedom," sexual and otherwise -- that is, "freedom from 'straight' norms."

But --

and the question I've been asking for so many years -- as of 12/2011, it's now a full dozen -- is

if that's true, if "gay" culture is about rejecting "straight" norms -- then why anal?

Anal is a "straight" -- what I call heterosexualized -- model of male-male.

In which there's a male and a pseudo-female, a top and a bottom, a butch and a bitch.

When I say that, I'm told I'm a reactionary toad.

But come on --

If we're about rejecting the "straight" model -- why are we imitating "hetero" -- that is, male-female -- sex?

Frot is uniquely male-male.

MAN2MAN

And MAN2MAN means PHALLUS2PHALLUS.

It doesn't mean dick to throat.

Or dick to anus.

MAN2MAN

means PHALLUS2PHALLUS.

PHALLUS2PHALLUS

means MANHOOD2MANHOOD.

The ancients made an explicit connection between metaphorical Manhood and genital Manhood.

They were also keenly aware of the relationship between male-male aggression and male-male attraction.

In Polynices' extravagant lament over Tydeus' body, "the body he loved," says Statius, Polynices recalls,

the fine dispute of that
First night, those blows exchanged, and our brief rage,
The pledge of long affection...

"blows exchanged, and our brief rage, [were] the pledge of long affection"

The story of Polynices and Tydeus, and the poetry of Statius, comes out of a rich and complex civilization which openly celebrated the Love of Free and Heroic Men.

And which understood that Love.

Our era does not.

The images and models our era presents are negativised and mutilated.

They are images and models of subjugation and pain.

And they are not fit for FREE MEN.

The images and models we here present, by contrast, are those of Warriors and Fighters.

Free Men.

Heroic Men.

Heroic Men who LOVE each other:

We defend the Warrior archetype -- the Warrior model.

And warn you against even the most subtle denigration it may suffer.

Because you need that model.

The Warrior band with its Warrior bonds.

That's what you need.

And what ALL MEN need.

But somehow, in the brave "gay" politically-correct rejection of "straight" norms -- Frot becomes infra dig.

Only anal matters.

No.

"MSM" anal is a pale reflection of penile-vaginal.

And that's all it is.

And no way can a poor imitation of the dominant culture's dominant act -- be liberating.

Moreover -- and again, in talking about what Rogers calls "sexual freedom" :

When I came out in 1972, people were "free" to do anal and s&m -- which is what the cue balls up the ass is about -- it's part of the "leather scene" -- and there was "leather" in 1972.

The difference between 1972 and what happened after -- is that anal and leather were fringe in the early 70s.

They were engaged in by a tiny, largely hidden, minority.

From 1975 onward, anal and leather were mainstreamed.

That was in large measure due to their enthusiastic promotion by commercial interests -- backroom bars, bathhouses, and sex clubs -- places like, in NYC, the Saint, the Mineshaft, and Crisco Disco.

Mr Rogers dances around that issue.

But it was to the terrible detriment of the "gay" community.

Because the trauma inflicted by activities like putting pool balls in the anus and rectum greatly facilitated the spread of HIV.

Don't believe me?

Check out Randy Shilts' AIDS book, And the Band Played On -- in which he spells out that the first cases of what came to be called AIDS were seen among guys into fisting and other heavy-duty "ass play."

That's one of the prime reasons, guys, that from 1981 -- first mention of this new, "gay," disease -- to 1984 -- the discovery of HIV -- that so many people, including myself, were willing to believe that the cause was "multifactorial," and that no "single causative agent" would ever be found.

We were wrong.

And that's also the reason that so many people got infected in 82 and 83 -- including my late lover Brett.

People knew there was a disease out there -- but didn't think there was a "single causative agent."

So they took risks -- which they didn't think were risks.

For example:

When I first met Brett, he had a boyfriend -- who, on occasion, fucked him.

Why?

Well, because they were dating, they could conceptualize that fucking as less dangerous -- than if it were a "promiscuous" fuck.

But, in reality, they dated very briefly -- and then the other guy rejected Brett.

And moved on to someone else.

Too late.

Before moving on, he'd infected Brett.

Which was common.

As UC Berkeley epidemiologist James Chin documented in his book The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness -- most of the infections occurred in 82 and 83:

If prevention programs are implemented when HIV epidemics are at or near their "natural" peaks, the subsequent decrease in prevalence might be incorrectly attributed to prevention programs. Yet most of the observed decrease might more likely be due to a saturation effect -- infection of most of the population with the highest risk behaviors. Thus, only a small proportion of the decrease in HIV prevalence might be due to prevention measures. The following section illustrates these problems in attributing reductions in observed HIV prevalence trends to prevention programs.

Decreasing HIV Incidence in an MSM Cohort

Figure 8.2 presents estimates of HIV prevalence and incidence based on point prevalence data from a cohort of MSM in San Francisco. Blood samples were collected from this MSM cohort because they were enrolled in a hepatitis B vaccine study. HIV prevalence rose from 1 percent in 1980 to 25 percent in 1982 to 65 percent in 1984. EPIMODEL was used to fit a prevalence curve to the three HIV prevalence data points and to calculate the annual HIV incidence needed to generate the "fitted" prevalence curve. According to this modeling of the HIV epidemic in this MSM cohort, annual HIV incidence peaked in 1983 at over 20 percent and then decreased sharply and dropped to about 5 percent by 1985.

The prevalence curve suggests that by 1983, about half of the MSM cohort, most likely the half with the highest sexual risk behaviors were infected with HIV. After 1983, HIV incidence fell sharply because the remaining half of the cohort probably had less risky behaviors and/or there was some overall reduction in sexual risk behaviors as a result of increasing reports of deaths attributed to this "emerging" disease. It should be noted that funding of State HIV/AIDS prevention programs was not started until after 1985.

[emphases mine]

Denial, guys, is dangerous.

Most of the guys who got infected -- got infected AFTER AIDS was identified -- but before HIV was discovered -- so that they were free to DENY that a lethal virus was on the loose.

Something similar, by the way, is going on right now with climate change -- and the results will be even more devastating.

Now -- and getting back to the early 70s, when I came out, and then the 60s -- before I came out -- it's certainly true that many gay-identified and other "MSM" experienced a pervasive fear of being raided, outed, exposed, ruined.

And in that sense they weren't "free" -- that is, and let's be very clear, they lacked basic civil rights protections.

But -- that doesn't mean they couldn't have sex, or that once they were having sex, they couldn't do what they wanted.

They could and did.

And like I said, some of them -- a subset -- were doing anal and s&m / pool balls etc.

So it's not as Mr Rogers suggests -- that those things were invented by Gay Lib -- or even the Black Party.

They weren't.

They and their practitioners existed when I came out in 1972.

But they were a minority -- a fringe.

As us guys into Frot are today.

Anal and assplay did not become pervasive until 1975.

There was an abrupt shift.

Had to have been.

That's why we didn't see an HIV epidemic sooner.

There weren't enough and overlapping concurrent networks of guys doing anal.

The shift to anal among those promiscuous tens of thousands of gay-identified males congregated and congregating in the inner cities -- is what gave us MSM AIDS.

And when it took off, it skyrocketed -- as Dr Chin documents:

HIV prevalence rose from 1 percent in 1980 to 25 percent in 1982 to 65 percent in 1984.

And then incidence -- the number of new infections -- fell.

Because everyone whose behavior put them at risk -- that is, everyone doing anal -- had become infected.

Including Brett.

Brett wasn't -- by the standards of the day -- particularly promiscuous.

Nor was he particularly into anal.

But he was promiscuous enough -- and willing enough to do anal -- that it killed him.

That's the lesson I learned from HIV -- and I'm not willing to let it go or forget it.

You don't have to be very promiscuous -- or very into anal -- to die of an anally-vectored disease spread through promiscuity.

Just *one* buttfuck -- will do it.

But I don't know how to get that across to someone like Mr Rogers.

He says he's a monogamist at heart.

If I told him -- which is what Sokrates/Plato would tell him -- that he must then abandon and flee from any of his so-called friends who encourage him to be promiscuous -- and into anal --

he wouldn't do it.

. . . he does not accept or admit into the guard-house [of his soul] the words of truth when anyone tells him that some pleasures arise from honorable and good desires, and others from those that are base [1], and that we ought to practise and esteem the one and control and subdue the others; but he shakes his head at all such admonitions and avers that they are all alike and to be equally esteemed.

"they are all alike and to be equally esteemed."

"It's all sex and it's all good."

When I first read those lines in Plato, I thought -- My God -- this guy, who didn't wear shoes, who didn't have candles or soap or chimneys or paper -- is writing ca 380 BC about a tiny, by our standards, group of aristocrats in Athens -- and he knows what's going to go down -- what people will say and believe and act upon -- among the mass and massive "gay" subculture in NYC and LA and SF etc in 1985.

And 2011.

"they are all alike and to be equally esteemed."

"It's all sex and it's all good."

But it isn't.

Freedom.

For more than 30 years we've been told that economic freedom is the freedom to be as selfish and greedy as you want -- without any regard for your community or your communal responsibilities.

The result has been disaster.

And, and by the same token, for more than 30 years we've been told that sexual freedom is the "freedom" -- to be a slave to your passions.

And the result has been disaster.

And the two "freedoms" have constantly intersected -- once again, in ways that Mr Rogers just dances around.

For example, the Saint -- home to the original Black Party -- was a disco/sex club in NYC's East Village owned by a gay-identified entrepeneur named Bruce Mailman.

Mailman also owned the St Mark's Baths -- a very popular East Village bathhouse.

And some other real estate as well.

But it was at his two "gay" sex venues -- the Saint and the St Mark's -- that tens of thousands of his fellow gay-identified men were infected with HIV.

Mailman was a capitalist -- a good one -- and he was being as selfish and as greedy as, we're told over and over again -- we all should be.

And tens of thousands died.

Including Mailman himself.

I knew him.

He was physically unattractive and morally repulsive.

Did anyone stop to think about the character of this person to whom they were giving money -- before entering the Saint or the St Mark's?

I did -- which was one of many reasons I didn't go to the Saint or the St Mark's.

But I don't know of anyone else who did.

Which is how and why it all came together:

The dominant economic culture's mantra of greed-and-growth ;

and the dominant "gay" culture's mantra of anal-and-promiscuity, of kink and sleaze -- it all came together at Bruce Mailman's club, the Saint -- and his bathhouse, the St Mark's.

And many many many men died.

Rogers does note that the Black Party caters to

a crowd of buff and wealthy men, who can afford party drugs and expensive tickets (getting into the Black Party costs $140) and get away with not sleeping for entire weekends at a time.

He understands that much of the capitalist-analist nexus.

But he stops there.

Plato didn't and doesn't.

Because although the affluence of Plato's Athens was relatively recent --

it didn't take long to lead Athens -- and Syracuse -- to the sort of ethical nihilism Plato so strenuously opposed.

Dion too -- Dion's often described as Plato's beloved -- Dion too opposed it:

For though he had been reared in habits of submission under a tyrant, and though he was fully accustomed to a life that was subservient and timorous, as well as to ostentatious service at court and vulgar luxury and a regimen that counts pleasures and excesses as the highest good, nevertheless, as soon as he got a taste of a rational philosophy which led the way to virtue, his soul was speedily on fire . . .

Ulimately, Dion's objection to a regime that counts pleasures and excesses as the highest good -- got him killed.

It almost got Plato killed twice -- once by Dionysius the Elder and once by his son's soldiers, who, afraid of losing their jobs if Plato's views on austerity gained too much influence -- threatened to kill him.

People don't, it develops, so willingly part from their pleasures and excesses.

Even if, as in the case of HIV, the pleasures and excesses are deadly.

Nevertheless, as Sokrates and then Plato so clearly demonstrated all those thousands of years ago, the pleasurable and the Good are NOT the same.

And it is the pleasurable which must serve the Good -- not the other way around.

It's as I said before -- some pleasures are benign and beneficent, other malign and malignant.

Only those which are benign and beneficent can serve the Good -- all others must be eschewed.

Fled from.

And the only way you can tell them apart is through training in thinking and the use of your own reason -- which is a Divine, that is, God-given, attribute.

You can't rely upon your culture, which is at best a jumble of confused notions and at worst -- a tissue of lies.

You have to think -- to REASON -- for yourself.

This is part of Sokrates' summation in the Gorgias:

Socrates: Give ear, then; but first I will resume our argument from the beginning. Are the pleasant and the good the same thing? Not the same, as Callicles and I agreed. Is the pleasant thing to be done for the sake of the good, or the good for the sake of the pleasant? The pleasant for the sake of the good. And is that thing pleasant by whose advent we are pleased, and that thing good by whose presence we are good? Certainly. But further, both we and everything else that is good, are good by the advent of some virtue? In my view, thus must be so Callicles. But surely the virtue of each thing, whether of an implement or of a body, or again of a soul or any live creature, does not arrive most properly by accident, but by an order or rightness or art that is apportioned to each. Is that so? I certainly agree, Then the virtue of each thing is a matter of regular and orderly arrangement? I at least should say so. Hence it is a certain order proper to each existent thing that by its advent in each makes it good? That is my view. So then a soul which has its own proper order is better than one which is unordered? Necessarily. But further, one that has order is orderly? Of course it will be. And the orderly one is temperate [self-controlled]? Most necessarily. So the temperate soul is good. For my part, I can find nothing to say in objection to this, Callicles; but if you can, do instruct me.

Cal. Proceed, good sir.

Soc. I say, then, that if the temperate soul is good, one that is in the opposite state to this sensible [or sound-minded = Greek: sophron] one is bad; and that, is the senseless and dissolute one. Certainly. And further, the sensible man will do what is fitting as regards both Gods and men; he could not be sensible [or sound-minded] if he did what was unfitting. That must needs be so. And again, when he does what is fitting as regards men, his actions will be just, and as regards the Gods, pious; and he who does what is just and pious must needs be a just and pious man. That is so. And surely he must be brave also: for you know a sound or temperate mind is shown, not by pursuing and shunning what one ought not, but by shunning and pursuing what one ought, whether they be things or people or pleasures or pains, and by steadfastly persevering in one's duty ; so that it follows of strict necessity, Callicles, that the temperate man, as shown in our exposition, being just and brave and pious, is the perfection of a good man; and that the good man does well and fairly whatever he does; and that he who does well is blessed and happy, while the wicked man or evil-doer is wretched. And this must be the man who is in an opposite case to the temperate, -- the licentious man whom you were commending.

So there is my account of the matter, and I say that this is the truth; and that, if this is true, anyone, as it seems, who desires to be happy must ensue and practice temperance [self-control], and flee from licentiousness [hedonism and promiscuity], each of us as fast as his feet will carry him, and must contrive, if possible, to need no correction; but if he have need of it, either himself or anyone belonging to him, either an individual or a city, then right must be applied and they must be corrected if they are to be happy.

This, in my opinion, is the mark on which a man should fix his eyes throughout life; he should concentrate all his own and his city's efforts on this one business of providing a man who would be blessed with the needful justice and temperance; not letting one's desires go unrestrained and in one's attempts to satisfy them -- an interminable trouble -- leading the life of a robber. For neither to any of his fellowmen can such an one be dear, nor to God; since he cannot commune with any, and where there is no communion, there can be no friendship. And wise men tell us, Callicles, that Heaven and Earth and Gods and Men are held together by Communion and Friendship, by Orderliness, Temperance, and Justice; and this is the reason, my friend, that they call the whole of this world by the name of order [Greek = Kosmos], not of disorder or dissoluteness.

So -- happiness depends upon Virtue.

And thus happiness depends upon a thinking through of what Virtue is.

Sokrates says, "the virtue of each thing, whether of an implement or of a body, or again of a soul or any live creature, does not arrive most properly by accident, but by an order or rightness or art that is apportioned to each."

So -- the virtue -- which remember is the areté, that is, excellence -- of each thing, whether an implement or a body or a soul, does not come about through accident, but by an order or rightness or art that is apportioned to it.

Who apportions it?

A Defining Intelligence -- most people would say the Creator, God.

Now -- it has always seemed clear to me, and in reading this passage, that firstly, Men need the Love of other Men.

ALL MEN.

Not just "gay" men -- but ALL MEN.

And that such a Love cannot be promiscuous.

So that the thought is better expressed as Every MAN needs the LOVE of ONE other MAN.

One other:

As the great American novelist Jack London put it,

I yearn for a "great Man-Comrade" who should be "so much one with me that we could never misunderstand," adding: "He should love the flesh, as he should the spirit."

This is a common feeling among Men -- the yearning for a great Man-Comrade, who would love the flesh, as he should the spirit.

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So, and again, Every MAN needs the LOVE of ONE other MAN.

And, coming back to the Sokratic idea of "an order or rightness or art that is apportioned" to each thing --

That the sexual expression of that Love -- and Yes, there should be and needs to be a sexual expression of that Love --

should be mutually and directly genital.

That as Sokrates says, and again, that it should not come about through accident, but by an order or rightness or art that is apportioned to it.

So -- male-female love is expressed through the union of the male genitals with the female genitals -- there is a rightness and order and art that is apportioned to both sets of genitals and which makes their union -- right.

Similarly, male-male love must be expressed through the Union of the Male Genitals with the Male Genitals.

The Mating of the Male Genitals with the Male Genitals.

Because there's a rightness and order and art which is apportioned to the Male Genitals.

The Male Genitals are the Generators of Male Erotic Energy.

That Male Erotic Energy causes them to call out to each other.

To call out to each other to meet and mate -- Phallus Against Phallus.

For in Man Against Man and Phallus Against Phallus there too is a rightness and order and art which is apportioned to both their Combat and their Union and which makes both -- both Temperate -- and Good.

Virtuous.

And remember, happiness depends upon Virtue.

Happiness depends upon Virtue.

Virtue -- which is also Manhood.

Liddell and Scott's Ancient Greek Lexicon:

From the same root [ARES] comes areté [excellence] ...the first notion of goodness being that of manhood, bravery in war; cf. Lat. virtus.

"the first notion of goodness being that of manhood"

Greek society was a Masculinist society -- was a society of, by, and above all, for, Men.

When, for example, Plato advocated the "civil equality of the sexes," his idea was to masculinize women.

Our society seeks to achieve "equality" by effeminizing men.

Plato had the better idea.

Because his society was unabashedly Manly -- Masculinist.

The Framers of that society, in looking at what Men needed from other Men in terms of Affection, Love, and Intimacy, said --

no anal, no effeminacy, no promiscuity.

Let's repeat that:

no anal, no effeminacy, no promiscuity.

No promiscuity, guys, means NO promiscuity.

It doesn't mean some promiscuity, or a little promiscuity.

It means -- NO promiscuity:

Plutarch adduces with evident disapproval cases of husbands who allowed their wives to be unfaithful to gain some advantage, and then notes, "By contrast, of all the many [male-male] lovers there were and have been, do you know of a single one who surrendered his beloved, even to gain favor from Zeus? I do not." (Erotikos 760B).

~cited by John Boswell, Same Sex Unions in PreModern Europe.

That was the Greek formula --

ABSOLUTE FIDELITY --

And it worked.

The Greeks had male-male which was Happy -- because it was Virtuous.

Virtuous because it honored that order and rightness and art which is apportioned to each living creature.

Now -- what's the alternative?

"letting one's desires go unrestrained and in one's attempts to satisfy them -- an interminable trouble -- leading the life of a robber."

So -- if you don't restrain your desires -- if you let your passions, rather than your Reason, rule --

what you get, through the interminable trouble of your constant attempts to satisfy those inherently insatiable passions -- is the life of a robber.

And that's what we have today -- a society of robbers.

Robbers in the economic sphere.

Robbers in the sexual sphere.

The result is misery -- all around.

Clearly, though, Mr Rogers doesn't realize that.

Why?

Because he's twenty-three.

Which means he was born in 1988.

The same year Brett was diagnosed.

Which means he was seven years old when Brett died and eight when the first effective anti-HIV drugs were introduced.

To him, HIV is a "manageable" illness.

He's never seen what an un-manageable anally-vectored disease can do.

In that respect, he's living in a fool's paradise.

And that's how it is now with the public in general.

And this is very clear to me in doing this work.

Almost no one any longer cares about AIDS.

Nor does anyone care that I lost my lover Brett Averill to AIDS.

That was 17 years ago -- sometime, but not long, after the death of Queen Victoria.

So: I've repeatedly warned you guys over the years that eventually AIDS would disappear as an issue.

It now has.

AIDS is dead.

We are now, in terms of STD, back where we were in 1979:

All STD are seen as either treatable; "manageable" -- as in HIV infection; or preventable via vaccine.

Yes, people still do die of AIDS, but the numbers are greatly diminished.

Yes, there's a danger of superstrains of STD like gonorrhea -- but so far, gonorrhea is still treatable.

Which means that smoking is, in effect, more dangerous than anal.

Because while anal is the leading vector for STD --

STD are not, currently, as deadly -- as smoking.

Just the way it is.

Basically, then:

Dr Green and I fought the battle of primary behavior change vs drugs and devices from 2003 forward.

We lost.

Primary behavior change lost.

Drugs and devices won.

They're easier.

Think about it.

If there were a drug which wiped out the negative effects of smoking, would anyone bother with anti-smoking campaigns?

NO.

Just as with anal and promiscuity, there are huge vested interests which support smoking.

And smoking is part of the culture.

If you can medicate your way around those interests -- and that culture -- that's what you'll do.

Because it's far far far far easier.

And people in our culture like easy.

They like easy, technological solutions.

They don't like hard.

Most of the guys who visit our sites -- leave.

They may take in some of the message -- but sooner or later they go back to their piece of the majority culture.

Because what we're talking about is hard.

I think we'd do a LOT better if we had boots on the ground -- ie, regional chapters.

But we don't.

In addition, campaigning against anal and/or promiscuity steps on the toes of the cultural leftists.

And they have all the power.

We have none.

Which is why we've been so effectively marginalized.

The cultural left is in control generally -- throughout our culture and society.

And the cultural left is hedonist.

Both the Hebrews and the Greeks treated anal as a *moral* issue.

That's what I do.

Anal mocks creation.

It mocks that core idea of the Greeks that "the virtue of each thing, whether of an implement or of a body, or again of a soul or any live creature, does not arrive most properly by accident, but by an order or rightness or art that is apportioned to each."

Prodicus:

Thou dost rouse lust by many a trick, when there is no need, using men as women

Xen. Mem. 2.1.30

It's wrong to do that -- morally wrong.

Neither the Greeks nor the Hebrews talk about STD.

They talk about morality:

Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

528. ZEUS AND SHAME

Perry 109 (Chambry 118 *)

After he had created people, Zeus immediately implanted in them all the possible human character traits, but he forgot about Shame. Since he didn't know how to get Shame inside the human body, he ordered her to go in from behind. At first Shame protested, considering Zeus's request to be beneath her dignity. When Zeus kept insisting, she said, 'All right, I will go in there, on the condition that if anything comes in there after me, I will leave immediately.' As a result, people who engage in sodomy have no sense of shame.

And the Greeks specifically talk about Virtue vs hedonism.

That's what I do and will continue to do.

Our culture and indeed our civilization is in a crisis brought on by a global philosophy -- a de facto religion -- of greed-and-growth.

Which is essentially hedonistic.

We present an alternative of Virtue -- which we identify, correctly, with Manhood.

And we say that just as sex and commerce don't mix, so do Fighting and commerce -- not mix.

Manhood and money don't mix.

Many guys don't understand that.

But Warrior NW does -- because when I said to him that money and manhood don't mix, he shot back to me:

Money DESTROYS Manhood.

That's what he said.

He's very clear about it.

As were the ancients.

It's all over Plato and Plutarch:

Money destroys Manhood.

But --

MANHOOD can take out money:

"Ares is Lord.

"Greece has no fear of gold."

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Ck out:

Austerity and Equality at Sparta

So -- when it comes to hedonism, we present an alternative of Virtue -- which we identify, correctly, as did the ancients, with Manhood.

Will that stance make us popular?

No.

Will most people understand what we're talking about?

No.

But we will persevere.

Cultural change is *usually* linked to material conditions.

Which is why cultural change can take centuries -- or can come swiftly.

I cannot predict what will happen with the present global crisis, or with future crises like global warming.

All I can do is tell the Truth as I see it.

If you're reading this page, it's because that Truth has already helped you -- enormously.

As it will continue to help others.

And that will become all the more important as AIDS continues to wane.

Because you won't have the AIDS excuse for not doing anal.

I've never needed that excuse -- I've refused to do anal since 1975 -- well before AIDS.

But then -- I can think.

And I can see how God intended Men to use both their Hearts -- and their Phalluses.

Most of you can't.

You're going to find the future -- very troubling.

Nor do most of you have the brains to say -- If something happened once, it can happen again -- indeed, it almost certainly will.

So -- right now, we have a technological fix for HIV / AIDS -- called anti-virals.

Sooner or later we'll have a vaccine.

Of course, we've had a vaccine -- since 1984.

It's what's called a social vaccine, and in the case of MSM AIDS, it's simple:

Don't do anal.

No anal.

No AIDS.

Even the CDC agrees:

For sexually active MSM, the most effective ways to prevent HIV and other STIs are to avoid anal sex [sic], or for MSM who do have anal sex [sic], to always use condoms. Serosorting does not protect against other STIs, like hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus, syphilis, and herpes.

Problem:

Using a condom is NOT the equivalent of NO ANAL.

The CDC gets it right the first time:

Don't do anal.

No anal.

No AIDS.

Simple, and sad, isn't it?

Because at least 1.5 million Americans have been infected SINCE 1984.

Mainly through anal.

And entirely because the "gay" community was opposed to ANY action which might question or curtail anal.

So anal -- and AIDS -- have gone marching merrily -- and arm-in-arm -- along.

But sometime soon -- we'll have a "real" vaccine.

Sort of like those "real" men you're always hearing about.

And then we'll "fix" AIDS.

Without fixing anal.

Without touching anal.

And AIDS will be over -- in the mind of the public, it already is over, and guys like me, who keep harping on our dead lovers, are dodos -- who should and soon will be extinct.

BUT -- the anatomy and physiology of the anus won't have changed.

And the culture of anal and promiscuity won't have changed.

And it'll take only one new pathogen which hitches a ride on anal and promiscuity -- to bring about another disaster.

Most of you are far too weak to make that sort of argument.

And far too weak to say simply and forcefully -- I don't like anal -- I like Frot.

And far far far too weak -- to resist the culture of promiscuity.

So there you'll be -- getting fucked up the ass by one femmy fag after another.

Not a pretty picture.

You need to start thinking.

Using your mind.

And your balls.

To rationally, and despite your buddies and your boss and your ball-and-chain -- choose how you behave.

How you live.

You need to use your Reason -- which, like your Manhood, is a Divine Gift -- to figure out what Sexual Freedom actually is.

Because that's the only chance you'll ever have -- to be both sexually -- and humanly -- free.

So -- let's do a small exercise in

Q. Sokrates and Plato say that some pleasures are necessary and beneficent. Is Man2Man necessary?

A. Yes. Throughout the centuries, Men have testified to their need for Affection, Love, and True Manly Intimacy with one other Man.

Q. Is the Mutually and Directly Phallic expression of that intimacy through Phallus-Against-Phallus beneficent?

A. Yes. Because it celebrates and, like Fighting, ecstatically exalts the Mutual Manhood of both Men.

Q. Is that Good?

A. Yes. Ancient thinkers like Sokrates, Plato, and Plutarch consistently link Manhood, Manliness, and Manly Spirit with Reason, Self-Control, Justice, and Virtue -- the highest Human Goods.

Philosophy alone can array young men in the manly and truly perfect adornment that comes from reason.

~Plutarch

Q. Does it make any sense, then, to destroy Manhood through anal penetration?

A. NO.

Q. Does it make any sense, given the extreme and well-understood vulnerability of the anus and rectum to damage and disease, to continue to push anal and other acts of "ass play" among "men who have sex with men?"

A. NO.

And yet that is what was done both before and throughout the AIDS epidemic; and it continues -- as Mr Rogers' article makes plain -- to this day.

So:

Get clear about it:

Malign and malignant "pleasures" and those who promulgate them -- are vicious.

It's as Sokrates says -- Kosmos -- order -- the Manly Order of the Warrior Kosmos -- is the highest good:

Heaven and Earth and Gods and Men are held together by Communion and Friendship, by Orderliness, Temperance, and Justice; and this is the reason, my friend, that they call the whole of this world by the name of Kosmos, not of disorder or license.

Which means --

You can have this:

Or you can have -- and I'll spare you any further pictures -- what Mr Rogers describes.

But you can NOT have both.

Can't be done.

Which means you have to choose.

Heaven and Earth and Gods and Men are held together by Communion and Friendship, by Orderliness, Temperance, and Justice; and this is the reason, my friend, that they call the whole of this world by the name of Kosmos, not of disorder or license.

Bill Weintraub

December 30, 2011

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