Letters to the Editor	Letters Archive

Clear and sane

I want to tell you that I am especially appreciative of your editorial stance. Your views are refreshingly thoughtful, intelligent, and even courageous, in light of the growing trend toward suppression of non-conventional sexuality. We badly need a clear, sane voice such as yours to counter the hysteria and the reactionary mindset of the so-called silent (but deadly!) majority. Keep up the good work!

R.W.
Berkeley, California

Huh?

Thanks for the sensible response on one of the more undeveloped areas of human sexuality (which I agree is more relative to the gay rights issues than just gay men and their scandals.) If you have any other articles on this subject, I think that it would better approach the conflict which is apparent with coming to terms with our own selves. Resting with being nonjudgemental.

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omrichards@uswest.net

Thanks for your kind words (though tortured syntax). It's unclear what writing or article inspired you, but rest assured our coverage of sexual freedom issues and the various paraphilias that lend our sexual ecology a resilient diversity will continue.

Wants addresses, black guys,and escorts

It would be better if your MaleBox personals had direct contact addresses, also more black persons. Your magazine has no black advertisers.

All prisoner classifieds have addresses, why not all ads?

You need ads for male escort services-- all races of escorts.

D.P.
Orlando, Florida

Anyone is free to include their address in their MaleBox ad; prisoners do so routinely because prison officials have arcane rules about letter forwarding; others often do not include their address because they want the privacy that letter forwarding offers. We have many advertisers in MaleBox who identify as black-- read more closely! We do not accept commerical ads in MaleBox (tho escorts are free to avail themselves of our regular advertising...), but free escort ads are welcome in our free on-line personals at www.guidemag.com.

Web site 'on target'

I like the layout of your web site, and I enjoy the content: Well written, concise, and on-target. Best wishes for a rewarding future!

Dax Michaels
dax@daxmichaels.com

Wants expanded readership

You know, despite all your pictures of twinkies in your ubiquitous print magazine in bars, etc., I have to praise you for pushing the envelope.

Between your sex stories, city guides, and articles on edge sex, you do a good job. One of the best articles on watersports I've ever read was a story in The Guide a few years ago. Tonight, I went to your site because of the ad in the print magazine for your on-line ads. You could have just enticed with pics of nude men, but you mentioned also being able to find a piss-play pal. You know, just saying that got my attention, and made me think you're not just going for the vanilla demographic!

I went to your site and read an interesting article on shit play. Definitely not my thing, but your article was incisive and would offer a lot to someone who was into that kind of sex. So, thanks for not being limited in your definition of sex.

Now... if only you'd vary your pictures of models on your covers and inside your print magazines with more bears, older men, chubs... then I think you'd really see your readership expand!

Al
ps_top@yahoo.com

Gay life a "nightmare"

I think that your magazine is excellent, the best in the world, especially the pages with personals ads. In my country, gay life is very bad. We have very strict anti-gay laws, so the police are very violent towards gays who gather in public parks or toilets. Pubs, discos, or saunas for gays are forbidden. Life in my country, which is devastated by war, is like a nightmare. I have lost my job as a physiotherapist and try to survive day to day. I wish to relocate to the U.S. or Canada.

G.N.S.
Yugoslavia

Porn and foreskins

I have been reading The Guidefor years now, and it's one of the better gay mags in its intelligence and its coverage of important gay news in the political and medical fields.

I really like good porn and it's refreshing to have a reviewer who really knows the field and the people (like Cadinot and Higgins), and who will give an honest review. We all know that 80 percent of porn is dreadful, but once in a while someone does something fresh or attempts something artistic, and you let the readers know.

I also gather that The Guide is against circumcision, and as a man with a foreskin I am also a foreskin fan. In your reviews it would be great to alert your readers when there is a film with an abundance of foreskins.

Charles Vozzi
New York City

Sex connex

I am a regular reader of your publication and have made sexual contacts and formed great friendships with readers and subscribers worldwide. Thanks for a truly great magazine.

A.S.
Kingston, Jamaica

Trades food for sex...

When I lived in Malaysia, where I was born, my sex life was almost non-existent. Sex between gays in punishable by law there, and police conduct constant raids on suspected gay places. So I decided to travel to Europe and live my own life. In 1997, out of the blue, I met this guy in Norway and my life will never be the same again. We decided to live together, and married under a new law.

Life in a foreign country is tough in the beginning. I've had to take meager jobs, attend language classes, get along with his family and friends, and basically find my own footing. On the bright side, I have no complaints about sex now. I get more than I could possibly need. The only thing I miss from my previous life is Malaysian food.

Your magazine is packed with information useful for gay travelers. I am particularly attracted to the reports on gay places in various cities with accompanying photos. My grouse is lack of information on how to get there and the absence of reviews. How does the writer rate a certain bar or club? Otherwise, I am very satisfied with The Guide as a travel guide.

K.K. Tan
Oslo, Norway

Satisfied with two

I write to inform you that I have received two answers to the publication you made in my favour. I had one from the U.S.A. and one from Canada. I am very grateful for the satisfaction I have received as a result of these lovely answers. I am trying hard also to get the required amount to renew my publishing period to the next.

B.A.A.
Ghana

Prisoners and money

[A certain ad in MaleBox] is taking people for money. The advertiser is an inmate who has several years before he gets out. He took me for $800 through another magazine. I've found out that many people in prison do this. This is just to let you know.

Gordon Miller
Peru, Indiana

We do not allow financial solicitations in MaleBox personals; sending money to anyone you don't know well risks being disappointed....

Wants job

Hi! How have you been recently? I miss you so much! Thank you so much indeed for sending me the magazine with my advertisement! I am so glad. That is the best bridge to be linked with American gay friends.

I humbly request your esteemed officers to recommend me to American gay friends as soon as possible. Meanwhile, you also would better introduce me to take up employment in the USA. I have obtained two diplomas: (1) Chinese English Education; (2) Foreign Services Management. For further information or documents that you need, please inform me as to be prepared by letter or make a telephone call. I wish to thank you in anticipation for the process in this matter.

J.S.
Kingdom of Lesotho

We manage to do many things here at The Guide, but we are not an employment agency; perhaps you could consider a free on-line personal ad at www.guidemag.com as a way to tout your skilled tongue and service techniques....

Remembers the Golden Age of Promiscuity

Boyd's stories are my favorite part of the mag. I lived through much of the period he write about (50s & 60s)-- which was real different than today. I could have written many similar to his. I would go the movies (in the days when there was a feature, co-feature, news, cartoon, and previews - all running continuously) and spend several hours. I would see everything at least once, and have lots of sex in the men's room throughout; it could be a five or six hour afternoon treat for 18 cents! There were "glory holes" big enough to put either of your heads through! And open sex not in booths. Ah, the "good old days"!

via the Internet

Happy Grampa

[Regarding your foreskin restoration article "Lost and Found," July 1999]: my grandsons are intact, and I am glad for them.

via the Internet

The Guide rules!

I wanted to let you know I enjoy your Guide magazine. I always pick it up at the Paradise in Cambridge. **

Richard
RichardJRJMAC@aol.com