Michael Hone

Masculinity Michael Hone

This fully-illustrated book in full-color is sexually oriented because no book on masculinity could be otherwise, the emphasis on omnisexuality, the reader free to place himself somewhere along the spectrum from strictly-heterosexual to homosexual-only, passing through every degree of bisexuality. Thanks to Internet boys see that there are only pleasurable benefits from jerking off, a far-distant cry from my own childhood when I held self-abuse responsible for my every act of misbehavior, and my best friend promised God he would never touch himself again if he were admitted into Yale, which he was, a promise he valiantly kept for a staggering three days and nights. The growing tendency today is pansexuality, gays discovering, again thanks to the Net, that there is nothing menacing in a vagina, and a straight lad, temporarily ditched by his latest girl and seeking a change from his fist, may decide that the belly of his college roommate is a pleasant alternative, the origin of the Princeton rub.
Manhood is thusly the center of this book, as it is the physical center of the body, of such importance that in ancient times a newly born was placed at its father's feet and the thighs parted, the father triumphantly lifting it above his head should it possess the royal scepter. Men are increasingly bonding thanks to shared interests, backgrounds and identical bodies, the building blocks of inherent complicity, from Australian mateship to modern bromances, the first step to men's sexual liberation through omnisexuality--and who, other than another male, can promise a man that he's got his back?
The fixation on the male body, the answer to the ''Whys'' of our obsession concerning it, and that throughout the ages, are the bases of Masculinity.