Sinclair Sexsmith, August 22nd, 2010
Filmmaker Shine Louise Houston, who brought you the queer porn Crash Pad Series web episodes and the feature-length films Champion, Wild Kingdom, and Superfreak, has started a new online web...
Sinclair Sexsmith, August 1st, 2010
Masculinity is not essential to the recipe of being a dominant sexual partner. And yet, this identity alignment assumption, the assumption that masculinity and dominance go together and are always...
Sinclair Sexsmith, July 25th, 2010
It’s difficult for me to critique this book: Lust consumes porn in similar ways that I do, and we have a similar history with viewing porn, so most of my responses to this consist of, “...
Sinclair Sexsmith, July 18th, 2010
Reprinted with permission
from Sugarbutch Chronicles.
Perhaps I had unrealistically high expectations for this book. "The basement smelled like sex," the book starts. "That thick, musty scent...
Sinclair Sexsmith, June 3rd, 2010
“... And to fate, who made sure I had a pimple right on my upper lip, who cancelled my first flight, and then when I did get a flight, the flight attendant dropped a Diet Coke right in my lap."...
Sinclair Sexsmith, May 11th, 2010
Consuming sex and pornography have been seen as men's domain for hundreds of years, if not more. I have my own theories as to why women have been denied sexual agency, such as the fear of the power...
Sinclair Sexsmith, March 11th, 2010
“Have you seen the Dockers ads?” someone asked me recently at a conference, after I told them I write about masculinity. "A friend told me he liked those ads, because he is so unsure of what it...
Sinclair Sexsmith, December 31st, 2009
At a bar last week, catching up with some feminist queer old friends, I began discussing my ideas around Radical Masculinity and the theories I am putting forward about the ways masculinity needs...
Sinclair Sexsmith, November 11th, 2009
My dad's best friend died last week. Heart attack. He was 60, barely older than my dad, not old enough for his heart to give way. They've been friends for 35 years, longer than I've been alive. I...
Sinclair Sexsmith, September 30th, 2009
Remember back in the Spring of 2009 when two young boys committed suicide within a week of each other, both eleven years old? Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts and Jaheem Herrera of Georgia...
Sinclair Sexsmith, August 28th, 2009
I have always been a reader. I don’t remember learning to read: I was three, my mother says Sesame Street taught me. Books have always been my go-to when I don’t understand something....
Sinclair Sexsmith, June 19th, 2009
The 21st annual Lambda Literary Awards returned to New York City for the 2009 ceremony at the New School for Graduate Studies in midtown Manhattan, after presenting last year’s awards in Los...
