WOW, you have a Mustache!

I think I have always liked men with mustaches. Ever since I discovered I was attracted to men, I've liked them. I don't know why. I think the idea of male secondary sexual characteristics may have something to do with it, of course, but I am very specific in this 'like' I have. And the thing is, it has not changed through the years. I've had relationships with me with and without mustaches, of course, but a nice mustache in a man is something that always makes me perk up. Even now.

Funny enough, though I had my dalliances with older boys (and men) when I was a teen, none of them had a mustache, that I remember. I think it all may have started when I discovered gay porn. You see, my first fav gay porn mags were Honcho and Blueboy (loved the one-handed stories they published) and all those fantastically retro magazines. I remember I saw them in some rickety newsstand in a drugstore many moons ago and I just had to have them. Those men called to me from those magazine covers like it was their job to seduce me. True to being myself, I totally bold facedly went up to the cashier and payed for the magazines. No fucks given at the moment, not even the idea that I could be carded. But I guess money talks. I got the magazines. I do remember that when I left the store I was shaking a little bit. I have no idea where I got the courage to buy those magazines. But I do know now that lust is a very strong motivator.

I really like that Castro Clone look, to tell you the truth. I think I read somewhere that the Clone look was a reaction to the homophobia of the seventies, and I can totally understand why. It has a hint of working-class man, a whiff of bravado and a lot of cheek. Subverting the paradigm while looking hot. What better instrument to slap the homophobes with? But nowadays you don't see a mustache often in men roaming out and about. I think that's what makes it even more... titillating to me? You see beards, goatees, even Van Dykes, but mustaches? Very few and in between. Darn. Thank goodness for Nate Stetson, right? 

I think what attracts me to a man with a mustache it's the promise of fun and that dash of individuality and also how the mustache really focuses your gaze on a man's mouth. Some men have very pretty mouths. Have you noticed? And you get to look into his eyes. With a clean-shaven man you don't have that focus. It's like a girl with a nice décolletage, I imagine. You just get ideas. I remember once a guy who was trying to pick me up was sporting a fantastic mustache and all I could think about was that I wanted that mustache tickling my fancy. Yeah, I'm dirty. So sue me.

I know out there there's legs men or men who like big torsos or big bulges or are obsessed with washboard abs. Well, I like mustaches.  But Michael Henry may be right: nowadays people associate mustaches with so many other things that sporting a mustache sends all kinds of different messages, especially to other gay men. Don't you agree? People also call them pornstaches. I guess it's a throwback association to the golden age of porn, when so many men sported them. But from my point of view, that is bad... why? 

*SIGH* So let's hope mustaches make a soft comeback and we get to see more of them. And then, I would be in trouble, right? Because, really. Not like I need an incentive to look at men...

XOXO