James Wharton, who served alongside Prince Harry in the Household Cavalry, said places that encouraged gay men to meet for sex encouraged potentially risky behaviour and had been linked to a “disproportionate” number of drug fatalities.
Writing in the magazine Winq he said: “Sex saunas need to be history. The time has come to close them down.”
Mr Wharton said that for gay lifestyles to be accepted as “the new normal” the community needed to avoid frequenting such establishments which he called “thorns in our side that mark our community as different for the wrong reasons.”
The Independent, obvs.
James Wharton - a gay soldier who got gaymarried! So that's a double win! - represents everything that shows why the gay movement is now fucked to buggery.
I don't want to join the army.
I don't want to get married.
I rejoice in not being 'normal'.
Your heteronormative petty bourgeois settlement just makes me want to puke.
So screw you sideways - but not in a 'sex sauna' cause they is bad.
And a pox on those like you who get off on telling other people what to do.
We shall be sovereign over our own minds and bodies, if nothing else.
Isn't being a hired killer 'potentially risky behaviour', you unbelievably thick right-wing fuck?
And in no way was your book a load of nonsense!
Oh do fuck off.
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I could rip this shit apart line by line, but having a bath is 'potentially risky behaviour'...
ReplyDeleteWhen people say something condemning in this way that just makes me think that they're going to be whatever they are criticising.
ReplyDelete"Research suggests that drug use amongst gay men is significantly higher than heterosexual men. This, again, is because many aspects of the LGB community revolve around club and pub culture." -
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No mention of saunas. So one wonders about Mr. Wharton's motives. It smacks very much of, I've finished with all that so lets ban it for others.
Prohibition of gay saunas will destroy people's livelihoods, push the saunas underground making drug education difficult, lead to more policing and will solve nothing.
More people die falling out of bed or drowning in their baths each year than at gay saunas.
Awful man, awful book. He "outed" 2 other soldiers he had a one-night stand with. Twat.
ReplyDeleteAnd who published this awful book?
DeleteWhat a self-loathing douche. Somebody shut him up FFS.
ReplyDeleteBiteback.Don't know of them. It could have been worse and published by John Blake, who's book list is total crap and his books full of grammatical errors.
ReplyDeleteNow, now. Isn't the idea that for gay men the Form of the Good is pre-eminently exemplified in a blow job in the rest lounge of the local sauna dangerously hegemonic? As Marx would have seen, if he had had my assistance, the presentation of gay men as unable to see beyond the most immediate orgasm is one way in which capitalism neutralises the threat gay men pose to the rigid 'division of the sexes' which underpins capitalism.
ReplyDeleteThe community is up in arms! Finally an issue we can all get behind each other on.
ReplyDeletewhllst agreeing with your principles for free speech, i am the gay man who shouts at people cottaging when i want to have a piss, and doesn't particularly want to see someone waving their cock at me.....there are many types of gay men, and we have almost nothing in common with each other.. he does sound like a reactionary,but...
ReplyDeleteI wasn't waving my dick around on purpose. I have Saint Vitus Dance and tend to jerk about a bit when I pee. :(
DeleteOMG. Can't think where to start with this one. I'd better head off to Chariots before they close it.
ReplyDeleteSuck me off
ReplyDeleteI believe that James Wharton is the step-brother of Ben 'Stand Up and Count the Money' Cohen. Yours Sergeant Stan Still. VD, RSVP, Habeus Corpus Christ.
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