HOMOSEXUAL MEN

Homosexual men are connoisseurs of the penis. Not only do they have their own penises to think about; their lovers have penises as well. If size is important to heterosexual men, to homosexual men it's enormously important. To have a big dick, in the gay world, is automatically to be an object of desire. It's no accident that one of the most popular gay porn magazines is called Inches.

Those men who are most turned on by big dicks call themselves "size queens"—but penises have many qualities other than size, and there are men enough to admire each of these qualities. A gay friend explained some of the phallic fine distinctions to me: "There are some men who are not interested in any penis that is circumcised," he said. "Or, conversely, there are some who are only interested in penises that are circumcised. Some are absolutely completely rabid about large penises and will not even look at one that is medium or small. Some are only interested in small penises. I don't know why these fetishes exist, because I myself find all penises interesting—it's such an unusual organ and it has a life of its own.

"Some men are obsessed with curved penises. A curved penis can be fairly straight or it can be like a huge swoop. I think in general people like the upward swerve better than the downward swerve because it has a sort of exclamation point quality. I believe part of the interest in it is because it goes into the rectum in a curved way.

"And veined penises are very important, too. Veined penises are in the same category as muscles with veins. If you have veins it's a sinewy sort of thing—it's supposedly very masculine. Some men are only interested in a certain kind of a head of a penis, or a certain kind of uncircumcised penis. And the different kinds of heads ... the most prized seeming to be a mushroom head as they call it, which is a head that's proportionally larger than the rest of the penis.

"I'd love to know how they discovered their obsessions. And how they meet people."



Source: The Book of the Penis by Maggie Paley