Your Sunday Gay!

Get thee hence and learn something about The Great Queers of History!

I stumbled across the site on MetaFilter earlier today and, truth be told, it's really quite fascinating. Loooooooooooot of poofters in history, let me tell you--some of the most influential philosophers, musicians, artists, inventors, scientists, and whatnot of all time. I did notice, however, that frequently this list of "great homos" is more like a list of "great bisexuals," though, as a number of people listed in it were definitely not exclusively "queer." Lord Byron, for instance, was not so much "queer" as he was an equal-opportunity lecher who would glad poke anything that would hold still long enough.

I was kind of surprised, however, to find Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault in the list. In my experience, gay men are usually a lot more creative and interesting, especially when they're literarily inclined. Barthes and Foucault were so full of pointless, idiotic shit it's hard to believe they were swishy.

I wouldn't call it *agony*, mind you, but....

Somehow, in my endless scouring of the Net for pr0n (which I cleverly disguise behind a facade of doing "research" and "reading transhumanist tech blogs")*, I stumbled across Beautiful Agony the other day and...shit, I'll admit it: the damned site is addictive.

The thing is...it's not exactly a pr0n site. Yes, it celebrates "the beauty of the orgasm" (which is occasionally the side-splitting hilarity of the orgasm)--but this isn't a site of heroin-scoured skanks rounded up from the semen-spattered ghettoes of Prague and Sighisoara masturbating on camera. In fact, half the damn time, you don't even know what is going on off-camera because all you ever get to see is a person's "O-Face."

That's it: films of people's faces when they...ahem, hit the high note. The most explicit thing you'll ever encounter, even in the site's text, is maybe a moan or a snort.

It's got to be the only "erotic" site on the Net that is actually freakin' titillating in one way or another because...hell, as the sample in the Architect song goes, "The human mind is the body's largest erogenous zone" (in the song "ICL Feelings" in case yer wonderin'). The stuff you don't see is a million times hotter than what you do.

Now, this is a pay-site, and they were running some kind of introductory one-week-for-$5 thing the other day, so I figured...hell, $5 to check this out might be worth it. I have no idea if it's worth more, but so far it's kind of intriguing. The thrill probably wears off quick, but for a day or two it's definitely amusing and different.

*Actually, I saw it mentioned in somebody's comment to an entry posted on BoingBoing.