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Mar '01
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Hobby-Horses
By: Blanche Poubelle
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When she was a wee child, Miss Poubelle was introduced to stamp
collecting by an aged relative. As a way of occupying little hands,
stamp collecting has much to recommend it. She even received a merit
badge for it. Yet
by puberty, Miss Poubelle's hands had found a more pleasurable hobby,
practiced chiefly in the privacy of her own bedroom. |
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Feb '01
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The Closer
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle supposes that many Guide readers have visited a sex club or bathhouse at some point in the not-too-distant past. She herself has not been immune to the charms of joyous, dog-like promiscuity,
conveniently provided for at a modest fee. |
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Jan '01
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Japanese Bears
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle and her hubby visited Osaka recently and had a chance to learn a little about the Japanese gay scene. We were surprised to hear that Osaka may have as many as 100 gay bars, since our eyes did not pick
up many obvious signs of gay culture. |
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Dec '00
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Sweet Jesus
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Last month Miss Poubelle discussed bukakke, a Japanese porno genre in which a woman is covered with load after load of sperm. Now she finds herself wondering about the history of the words
jizz and jism. |
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Nov '00
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Bone Soup
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle confesses her self nonplussed by one of the latest develo pments in straight porn-- a
genre known as bukkake. |
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Oct '00
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Burn your jock strap
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Gentle readers, Miss Poubelle has seen the face of the next liberation front to sweep our society. Forget the liberation of women, of homosexuals, of sado-masochists, of the disabled. Those movements are passé. The
newest wrinkle is testicular liberation. |
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Sep '00
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Isophylia
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Do gay people have a special role to play in the world? Gerald Heard thought so. Heard (1889-1971) was an Anglo-Irish polymath who believed that humans were in the process of evolving into a higher species, and that
we isophyls played an important part in that evolution. |
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Aug '00
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Breaking the Code
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Back in the days when Miss Poubelle was a fresh young thing on the market, she picked up one of those little cards that listed the hanky code. As a newcomer to the gay scene, she felt obliged to learn what various kinds
of "flagging" meant. |
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Jul '00
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Orgasm face
By: Blanche Poubelle
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When Miss Poubelle was in the supermarket a few weeks ago, she happened to glance at the cover of
Glamour magazine, and was amused to see the title "Orgasm Face: Guys Compare Notes He reveals his secret
thoughts about your ecstasy expression." Miss Poubelle and her lover laughed about the new area of anxiety that
Glamour seemed to be creating for women. |
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Jun '00
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Not up to snuff
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Like many other cinema-goers, Miss Poubelle found
The Blair Witch Project to be a well-done and entertaining movie. One of the things that made the film interesting was the skillful grafting of the conventions of
a documentary onto a work of fiction. |
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May '00
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How Bona to Vada Your Eek!
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle regrets that she never got to hear the Julian and Sandy dialogues that aired on BBC radio in the late 60s, as they seem to have inspired a generation of British gay men in a way that persists even now. |
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Apr '00
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Dropping a feather
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Despite the economic difficulties,
XYeditors have succeeded in putting out a magazine that has more original, unhomogenized content than four or five issues of most other gay mags. |
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Mar '00
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Homophobia sucks
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle recently received correspondence from a
Guide reader who complained about the rampant use of the expression
it sucks. This reader felt that the expression is basically homophobic and ought to be
avoided, especially by gay people. |
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Feb '00
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Tranny world
By: Blanche Poubelle
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The world of transgender is a wide one, and ranges from men who simply enjoy wearing women's clothing to those who take hormones to alter their
external appearance to those who undergo full-fledged sex-reassignment surgery. |
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Jan '00
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A brief history of your arse
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Last summer when Miss Poubelle was in Scotland, she picked up a safe-sex guide at a gay bookstore and was amused to read "You may want to wash your arse
before being rimmed, but douching is not a good idea. It will just bring more germs out into the open around your arse." Right away, her mind turned to tongues. |
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Dec '99
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"Bashing" is beating
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle followed with dismay the recent controversy at the Brooklyn Museum of Art over the exhibition
Sensation, which contained Chris Ofili's portrait of
the Virgin Mary decorated with porno cutouts and elephant dung. |
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Nov '99
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Flaming Idiots
By: Blanche Poubelle
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When the telephone was first introduced, a new form of sexual harassment-- the obscene phone call-- came along for the ride. |
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Oct '99
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Political etymologies
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle visited a very liberal church in Boston a few weeks ago, and got into a discussion with some of the members after the service. |
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Sep '99
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Just My Cup of Tea
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Gay and lesbian people have a lot to thank John Waters for. He's provided us with some of the most memorable camp images of the century: Divine, cha-cha
heels, Edith Massey as the Egg Lady. Now we can thank him for expanding our sexual vocabulary to include
teabagging. |
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Jul '99
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Ladida
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle has only visited Key West once, but it seemed to her that she had reached a paradise on earth. Of course, the fact that she was leaving the
frozen Northeast in January probably added to her impression of having arrived in the promised land. |
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Jun '99
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Of Manatees and Men
By: Blanche Poubelle
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One theory of the mermaid myth is that European sailors, desperately horny after a transatlantic journey and not too keen of sight, mistook the manatees
of Florida and the West Indies for beautiful maidens. |
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May '99
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Cool Jerk
By: Blanche Poubelle
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In her daily life, Miss Poubelle occasionally has the misfortune to encounter a person who can only be described as a
jerk. |
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Apr '99
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Family Jewels
By: Blanche Poubelle
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The word putzhead made headlines this past fall, when US senator Al D'Amato of New York used it to describe his Democratic challenger, Charles Schumer. |
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Mar '99
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What's in a Name?
By: Blanche Poubelle
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In January, gay language watchers like Miss Poubelle were treated to a stimulating controversy involving Merriam-Webster's online thesaurus (www.m-w.com). |
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Feb '99
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Comrade Walt
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle was recently perusing Charley Shively's excellent book about Walt Whitman,
Calamus Lovers, and was intrigued by the language Whitman
used to describe his many sexual partners. |
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Jan '99
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Louche Alert!
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Word-watchers like Miss Poubelle track the rise and fall of vocabulary items the way bird-watchers meticulously plot the life course of the tufted titmouse. |
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Dec '98
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Moral Straightness
By: Blanche Poubelle
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The Boys Scouts of America have their charges pledge to be, among other things, "morally straight." And moral straightness to the Boy Scouts seems to include bigotry towards Scouts who are gay or atheists. |
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Nov '98
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Did Bill Felch Monica?
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Today's Puritans are obsessed with the idea that somewhere out there people are doing disgusting things in their bedrooms. |
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Oct '98
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Pills or Pizzles?
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Many believe that eating animal dick will make their own work better English abounds in words for the penis, but Miss Poubelle finds it rather splendid that there is a special word that refers only to the penis of an
animal. |
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Sep '98
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Trick or treat
By: Blanche Poubelle
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Miss Poubelle's neighbor in West Hollywood is a rather handsome man (let's call him Billy), who has a seemingly never-ending stream of short-term male visitors. |
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