Reply #7: As a (vain) straight man and the owner of an incredible ass...

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...I have to say I would not be anathema to showering with gay men. I have a fantastic ass. Can't bounce a quarter off it, but it's still fantastic. Now, the only person who gets to fully appreciate how fantastic my ass is, uncovered as it were, is my girlfriend. This is a great crime in the truest sense. I would welcome to opportunity to shower with gay men because I presume that one of them might glance at my ass and become transfixed, if only for a moment, by its perfection.

  If I were showering with a group of women, as I have on many occasions at our Oregon Country Fair, I hate to admit it but on occasion I have found myself glancing at a lady showering and thought "My god, that woman has a fantastic body!". Nothing more. This is the sort of recognition I'm speaking of.

  Since my girlfriend is generally opposed, on principle, to me showering with anyone who has sex with my gender, this hypothetical remains hypothetical. However, on occasion my friends will party down at Diablo's (nee Perry's) downtown. It is quite flattering when another male buys me a drink. At four bucks or more per drink, I certainly don't turn it down.

  The only thing sillier than my Shatner-like fixation on how sexy my ass is, is homophobia. It's a very sad world we live in where people fear The Other so much they resort to the pantheon of shenanigans they invariably do. I really don't understand why some men are so disturbed by gay men. If they really understood only the two powerful tools of A) getting a free drink and conversation at a bar and B) a great-ass referral by a gay man to a lady, because he has seen your bare ass, they might cut the stupid, violent shit out and start enjoying life a little more.

PB