Flashback: Arousal Overload

These guys were responsible for hordes of erections, yet in a world in which homosexual activity was quite a bit riskier, potentially leading to violence or arrest. But they're also responsible for inciting an arousal that could then not be quenched by anything less than utter sexual liberation.

Or at least a surreptitious solo load, before going back to a surface heterosexually respectable life. But male pornography, ahem, "physique studies" abounded due to demand. Not quite the same as demanding civil rights, but it helped.

So allow your lust to be awakened, without knowing where it may lead. Arousal isn't something that needs to be contained, just channeled. That's something my last boss put on my performance review when I was caught masturbating at my desk for the 80th time.

What else are you supposed to do if there's magically somehow porn on your computer screen? I mean other people Facebook at work, so whatever.

Honestly, I am trying to imagine seeing this porn in that present, when having that desire for men was more dangerous (though that of course still applies to some in our present). But then some of the guys in the photos were smiling, wanting you to let go. And some were touching each other, making that more okay. And I think that's still the appeal of vintage porn. If that happened then, it's even more okay now. And it is.

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