Spice Boys For many Indian gay men their racial and cultural identities often take priority over their sexuality.
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Lend me a hand Perhaps no sexual activity has caused more gape-mouthed looks of disbelief than fistfucking. Many a man, upon first hearing about it, has gasped, "No way!" And the insertion of the hand, fist, or forearm into another guy's butt does seem to defy biology, not to mention good sense. Despite this (or maybe because of it), it's a cherished form of recreation for a select segment of the kink community.
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Cottage industry Public sex is dangerous, illegal, and frowned upon by polite society. Yet some of us are hooked on it, and many more of us have done it at least once or twice.
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Homo erectus Simon Sheppard looks at what causes erectile dysfunction and how to overcome it.
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Hardcore Gay The films on this years festival are amazing, but the seventh faggot film-festival opening (in boring shiny Nosebank) had no frisson left, no edge, no challenge and no surprises in terms of the event, no-one putting pepper in the pot. There was nothing earning it the appendage queer (as touted in the Star) when it's hardcore gay.
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Interview with Rosa.

Who was Paul Cadmus? More than 50 years before Robert Mapplethorpe's explicit photographs enraged Sen. Jesse Helms, triggering a reassessment of federal arts funding, another gay artist found himself in the center of national controversy because of his frank depiction of sexual desire.
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Race you there Few issues in the queer community are as touchy as the combination of sexuality and race.
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We're coming Simon Sheppard goes in search of the ever elusive "Simultaneous Orgasm"
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Hankie panky It pays, the saying goes, to advertise. And why should advertising sex be any different?
Simon Sheppard explains the hankie code.

The Homo in Homophobia. Some psychoanalysts believe homophobia is the result of repressed homosexual urges that the person is either unaware of or denies.
Find out more from the The American Psychological Association.

Are you doing "it" right? Are there hard and fast rules that everyone can follow to make one's sex life more fulfilling, or is it a hit and miss affair where rules are meant to be broken?
Simon Sheppard has the answer.

Who was Simon Nkoli? Openly gay anti-apartheid activist Simon Nkoli stands trial for treason in South Africa.
(January 1986)
A brief history.

Boon's Toons Q-online has a new regular contributor. Marc Kwabema Boon is to supply Q with two new weekly cartoons.
Find out more about this talented artist.