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Treated like scum

I am sending your editorial Free Al Baker [August, 2001] to my friend. He is at the Massachusetts Treatment Center. He is treated like dirt, and lives in a bunker surrounded by barbed wire. Watched all the time. He is treated like scum.

dguard@aol.com

Part of the Massachusetts Treatment Center was, indeed, subject of the 1967 documentary Titicut Follies, which shocked many by exposing the snakepit conditions that existed in the mental "hospitals" of "liberal" Massachusetts.

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b>Stop breeder bashing!

I just wanted to make a comment on your article about limiting "breeder" sex [A Modest Sexual Proposal, April 2001].

Without these "breeders," you/we wouldn't even exist as human beings. So many gays are still angry at their parents for the rejection that they feel, that they just want to project their parents out onto every heterosexual on the planet. As a result, we keep creating and re-creating our history the trauma we experienced with our parents onto and into the world, and continue re-creating the suffering that we experienced as children.

Douglas Philip Cyr
douglascyr@earthlink.net

Perhaps you overlooked Jonathan Swift's writings in all your graduate studies; even so, the date of the editorial might have clued you in that the piece was satirical....

Shit eating disturbs youth...

I am an 18 year old student at University of Illinois. I have never in my entire life read anything so disgusting as Exploring Coprophilia: A Lot to Digest.

I have seen some pretty disgusting things in my life but this just blows my mind. Do guys honestly enjoy eating shit?

Be real here, you are letting people pull their pants down and just shit in your mouth! Are you a toilet or something?

If you can say you don't find anything wrong with that, then something must be loose in your head. I'm not a mean person but there is something wrong with someone who eats shit for a fetish.

C. B.
Urbana, Illinois

Glad you're combing the web for interesting reading. That piece has prompted much comment (and remains one of our most-read on-line articles ever); your visceral response underscores that shit provokes strong reactions in almost everyone­ not surprising, therefore, that some folks in our wide and wonderfully diverse world translate that response into sexual turn-on. As you are only 18, you may be forgiven being shocked at shit-fetishists; trust us: guys' (and gals') sexual interests, desires, and obsessions are far weirder, varied, and inexplicable than you can imagine­ one of the wonders of sex.

... and makes for 'the most intense orgasms ever'

Your hot scat article Exploring Coprophilia: A Lot to Digest has us throbbing!

We are two gay men from Chicago who are hesitant to reveal our fascination with shit to our other homosexual friends. We have both taken turns defecating upon each other, and while it was repulsive, we both have admitted that we experienced the most intense orgasms ever.

We are curious as to how to seek out other lovers of the great, giant, brown log. We are also into playing as well as eating each others barf that is laden with tasty nugs of crap. If you could let us know how to get in brown contact with the dirtier, and more twisted of our community, I would appreciate it.

L and C
Chicago, Illinois

Search engines like www.google.com will yield lots of links when you enter terms like "gay scat."