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Prior to last year's election, purveyors of gay porn were more than happy to talk about their, um, product. I fear those days might become a distant memory. How else to explain what happened to me when I tried to report my latest story?
It's part of my job to keep tabs on the latest in the gay fetish scene, whether it's pegging or detachable-cock sucking (let's just say both involve attachments). Still, I'd never heard of "suitsex"-a fetish that sounds freakishly queer, yet normal-until I saw it in last month's issue of the Aussie queer rag DNA. I discovered some gay men prefer their partners to look like they just stepped out of a boardroom, rather than a backroom.
Who knew?
Purely in the interest of serving WW's readers (yeah, right), I Googled "suitsex" and found a site as focused on the subject as others are devoted to bondage, plushies and bipolar bisexuals.
Now, I actually know a guy who has sex with other men in suits all the time, but I never considered this a fetish. More of a convenience, really, considering that he has usually just met most of these well-suited dudes on the street. In the interest of getting to the bottom of this CEO-friendly sex scene, I emailed Gary from the suitsex site.
His hesitant response surprised me:
Hi…straight people are cool about gay related stories until someone talks about gay porn…I don't want to become a target of the conservative right. I'd like to think the public is beyond this, but the reality is they aren't.
Wow, doesn't it seem like Gary needs to lighten up? An attraction to a Donald Trump doppelgänger seems more well-mannered than, say, getting doused in a golden shower by a leather-wearing, deaf midget.
Not only is suitsex a site Men's Wearhouse could advertise on, but it could also be enjoyed by sartorially savvy Log Cabin Republicans. Sure, uptight types might not approve of what happens when fancy ties and loafers get mussed up, but these well-groomed gents are worlds away from the NAMBLA fisting parties that always seem to come up whenever gay issues are addressed on the floor of Congress.
In truth, the unsuitable behavior featured on suitsex.com-an offshoot of dresssox.com, which is devoted to men who like men in dark knee socks and not much else-is the perfect fetish for our new, out-but-not-too-out conservative times. This kink could be seen as the ultimate in subversive queer behavior. Rather than traipsing around in a harness and buttless chaps looking like a lost member of the Village People, queer dudes can now dress just like other so-called normal guys.
OK, maybe not in Portland, where dressing up involves wearing a clean T-shirt and a baseball cap forward rather than backward. But still, if this fetish were to catch on in P-town, wouldn't we all have a harder time window-shopping at Mario's?
Men in suits and ties can be viewed at suitsex.com; men in dark dress socks can be found at www.dresssox.com . Oh, by the way, these sites might be un-suit-able for at-work viewing.
WWeek 2015