Good Vibrations Magazine

I had trouble masturbating last night. It’s funny how that happens.
A good session usually begins for me earlier in the day, often on the street. Not masturbating on the street mind you, as that would be vulgar. It’s also illegal; maybe not in San Francisco but in most other places.
What I meant to say was [...]

What’s it like to have a penis? I get asked that a lot, and not always by women.
There’s no single answer. My relationship with my dangling self, like all healthy relationships, has evolved over time. We have grown and changed together, staying up late, swapping stories.
I must say it is undeniably fun to have a [...]

Seeing as people enjoyed the first set of definitions I thought I would o a few more. I will begin with Charlie Glickman’s addition added as a comment at the bottom of the last piece.
Manifest, v. To ask the universe (and everyone around you) for something over and over again until you get it.
Open Relationship, [...]

In the late 1800’s a devilish man with the devilish name Ambrose Bierce began composing a dictionary of satirical definitions. These definitions were later collected and published under the title “The Devil’s Dictionary”.
He was, if nothing else, a misanthrope, as can be seen in the following examples.
Egotist, n. A person of low taste more interested [...]

Barack Obama has throw down, and some people on the left don’t like it.
When he was a candidate I mused upon Barack’s sexual flirtation with the country. After America’s eight years of being tied-up and ball-gagged by W. what kind of a lover was Obama promising to be?
At the time I noted [...]

There are many wonderful men in the Bay Area - and not all of them are gay.
On any given weekend in San Francisco there are at least five or six decent straight men. You can see three of them on Sundays pushing strollers with their wives in Golden Gate Park.
As for those last [...]

A penis needs context. I know mine does.
There are some women who don’t seem to understand this. Some women are under the impression that all men will leap to attention when in the presence of a naked woman. One woman I know refers to this as hard at first sight.
No doubt there are some men [...]

My good friend Brianna asked me to write an essay concerning the positive aspects of the Great Recession. When I say aspects, plural, Brianna really only means aspect, singular.
And what is this singular positive aspect of our Great Recession? The Dong Perch.
To quote Brianna, “Cause there’s no work it can be the middle of the [...]

Harbin Hot Springs is one of the most wonderful places in the world. You jump from the really hot pool to the really cold pool and back again until your body turns to rubber and slides into the warm pool and its like the earth is giving you a hug.
And of course there are all [...]

I must confess to a deception. Not one of gravity but a deceit none-the-less. I am not the true author of these essays.
Though I wish I could claim the sheer audacity of thought, the words you have been enjoying have been those of one John Thursday. You will find his picture [...]

I would like to share a story with you all told to me by my good friend Mr. Ping.
His name is actually just Ping but one stoned night in college we added the Mr. thinking it made him sound like a James Bond villain. Mr. Ping is the first-born son in his [...]

They’re out there, shirt cockers.
I don’t know if it’s a Burning Man phenomenon. Perhaps it has gone global. But for one week a year Black Rock Desert is most assuredly the shirt cocking capital of the world.
What is shirt cocking? Ah, you lucky uninitiated, to know not the likes of shirt cocking. To have never [...]

How fondly I recall my ménage a trois’: the quiet conspiracy, the jealous glances, Dusty Springfield on the stereo.

Yet, I have never had a ménage a trois, for ménage a trois’ have been rechristened. One night, when no one was looking, they became three-ways.

Some fool stole a hyphen, added a number and voila, a house of three became a conference call, romance became business.

It may seem like a small thing, but for such a physical pleasure, our sexual delights are all about language.

Beside the reservoir that is next to the ocean in Newport Rhode Island there is a house. There is nothing exceptional about this house. But every Christmas season it becomes a destination for parents and their children. Standing on the beach you can see its lights burning bright.

Thanksgiving has a great deal in common with crying in bed.
I am actually thinking of the origins of our Thanksgiving tale, those silly Pilgrims, that barren New England soil, frigid winter, and the kind Wampanoags who came to share, much to their later chagrin.
To be more specific than crying in bed I am thinking of [...]

It finally happened. It took a two-year courtship and multiple proposals but last week Barack Obama asked us to marry him and we, the people said yes. Congratulations, we’re engaged.
Yet the joy for many of us is tempered by the passing of Proposition 8. The country has come so far in electing an African-American president [...]

I have had the good fortune to attend a number of gay weddings this season. There have been many. With proposition 8 proposing to end gay proposals people have been promiscuously popping the question.

I am not saying this as some campaign slogan or religious cry, “Jesus loves you!” No, I am quite in earnest. Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, Vice-Presidential candidate, loves me.
Remember all that winking she did during the debate? That was for me.
Have you seen those youtube videos of her at her Church in a [...]

Riding our bikes along one of the dusty streets of Black Rock City Dominic and Reynaldo wanted to stop by the camp Comfort and Joy. There were two lovely Moroccan tents set up and a list of activities.
“Male Erotic Massage” was to start in one hour in the big tent, lots of rubbing in the [...]

The night began when my brother took acid. Well, he and our good friend. Let’s call him Dominic. This was at Burning Man.
Soon Dominic needed a port-a-potty. Acid can do that to you.

I had an epiphany about Bachelor Parties last weekend. It was this; Bachelor Parties are for Bachelors.

Redundant, say you.
No, say I.

Bachelor Parties aren’t really for bachelors, they’re for almost married guys.

Its not often that I am vindicated by a scientific study coming out of a major university. It is even less often that I am vindicated in a matter of love by a scientific study coming out of a major university…

I have an idea for a website. The idea is so simple, so clean, I am certain the site must already exist, though I haven’t been able to find it.
Of course Google has made me exceptionally lazy. If two or three keywords don’t give me my answer by halfway down the second page forget about [...]

It happens, usually from behind. Well, always from behind, though I suppose other positions could lend themselves to it. Now, to be clear, there are a couple of things I am not talking about.
There’s a girl I know who had a friend back in the day named Barbara who they all called Baba Wrong Hole. [...]

With the Sex and the City movie opening this week I got to thinking about gay men and the women they love. I was thinking how gay men have a different relationship to women than I do. Namely, we differ on how we view pussy.
For straight men pussy is the hidden kingdom, the Golden Palace [...]