The taming of the (gay male) shrew

You think getting married and having babies makes a man [italic]less[/italic] shrewish?!

Grow up, OP.

I don't see how encouraging committed relationships cannot be anything but good for the LGBT population. The days of dirty restroom fucking and bath houses are over. Hopefully with the freedom and acceptance of gay relationships there will be lower STD rates, depression, and suicide within our community. We appreciate the battles the older gays fought to get us where we are, but the gay community is changing for the better.

OP, no one's forcing you to give up your proclivity for non-stop, anonymous, unprotected, drug-fueled sex. If you feel ashamed by it, than that's on you.

It's the fucking 1950s all over again. This time it's "Mommy Knows Best."

Oh God, how long will we be subjected to these whiny tirades from people who never left the 70's? They're just as delusional as those conservatives who think the 50's were the Golden Age.

30 years-old and have never seen a day in the '70s, R6! Believe it or not, not all of us Millennials are sex-negative genderqueers who want to conform to a "Modern Family" version of gay malehood.

No one has to get married. You may want to wait until your are in your 40s to settle down and start a family or you can just get old and die alone.

Yes, grindr and hookup apps are now at an all time low. The shrew has been tamed

I agree with the OP, be single and happy, the world will be a better place. not when you're married, unhappy and with stupid kids.

I'M SICK OF ALL OF IT!

"or you can just get old and die alone"

I got news for you, cupcake. We all die alone.

I agree, OP. They've taken away everything that was fun and sexy about being gay and turned us into desperate housewives.

Validate me for wanting to be a dirty slut.

You're right OP. Every day should be a trip to the Mineshaft.

We’ll pray.

[quote] A conspiracy by the moral majority to tame gay men away from being the free-wheeling, sexually-free Peter Pans of yesteryear and conform to mainstream society?

This makes no sense. The moral majority gets off by selling the idea that gays are immoral and slutty freaks. What you are describing is something that should be celebrated. We have the right to get married now--deal with it.

[quote] sexually-free Peter Pans

Are you Michael Jackson?

Funny -- you don't LOOK shrewish.

Some of my friends are shrews.

Don’t worry, OP. You can still be the fat whore that we all know you are. Just follow your heart.

I’d say it sounds like you need to get laid. But I guess that’s why we’re here.

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It's not a conspiracy by the moral majority, it's just what comes along with being more "accepted", especially in terms of mainstream media portrayals. You see all the Modern Family-type gays on sitcoms because that's the kind of thing sitcom writers know how to write. It's better than when every gay character was either a terrible villain or a suicidal AIDS patient.

I think you also see more gay males now wanting a typical white picket fence life because it's much more possible now. I'm 32, and growing up I already made my peace with the idea that I'd never have children and might never get married, but for people only a few years younger than me, those were always options in their minds. They never had to really think outside the box to decide what they wanted their lives to be like because society was now telling them it could be like everyone else's instead of making you think you couldn't have the same life everyone else has and figuring out what would actually make you happy, which is what older generations of gay men had to do.

I can see both sides of the argument. There is an exhilarating feeling when you think about picking up a hot little thing on a corner or fondling a stranger’s throbbing cock in an alley. But domestic life is safer and probably makes people happier and more productive citizens.

Hopefully everything is cyclical, so that after we reach peak Puritanism (and peak surveillance-state), counter culture will rise again. Hookers will start back hooking, eldergays will start back trolling alleyways and the circle of life will keep on turning.

Tangentially, I almost want the “unplugged” movement to grow, where people opt for simpler lives free from technology. Just imagine having sex in the woods with no GPS tracking or possible surveillance cameras on you.