“The energy of the city is the main attraction,” McDonough says.
Though he calls the city streets his “studio,” he doesn’t consider the city to be any less photogenic now than it was then. Plus, NYC gave birth to disco, a democratic mix of jazz, funk, Latin, and African sound that brought people of every race, sexual and political persuasion to the Studio 54 dance floor to mix it up and get it on.īrooklyn photographer Paul McDonough recently shared some of his shots from 1970s New York.
The rise of the second-wave feminism empowered women to fight abuse and establish their own autonomy at work and home, the anti-war movement against Vietnam challenged the idea of wasteful American aggression, and the sexual revolution and advent of androgynous glam rock kicked traditional gender roles into the backseat.
Meanwhile, the grafitti-ridden subway system and increasingly dangerous Central Park became settings for a series of frightening murders and rapes.īut the 1970s weren’t all doom and gloom for NYC. In 1975, the NYPD laid of 50,000 employees and crime rose 40 percent, culminating in the infamous 1977 blackout where the remaining police faced 1,000 fires and 1,600 store lootings costing the city $300 million. For this guy to get so high and mighty is infuriating.New York detective Frank Serpico famously testified about rampant drug abuse, bribery, and sexual coercion in the city police department. I notice that it’s a predominantly Asian staff that caters to older men, probably a lot from a previous generation that is used to doing things on the sly. I live down the street from this place, and it’s pretty explicit who this spa caters to and it’s not really all that shocking that this happens. (Because theoretically, no gay would ever go to a place like this to get his rocks off). In a fantastical utopian world where we exist exactly as equals to straights…I can see how the masseur’s behavior would be shocking and upsetting. To be completely honest this story angers me because it feels like a betrayal on the gay community. But keep that arbitrary social construct of hetero-normative life away from me. Props to anyone who wants to lead a prude-y, straight and narrow lifestyle…go ahead marry that one guy, stay monogamous and adopt/in-vitro some kids…more power to you.
I can’t stand this new generation who feel assimilation and *disappearance* into straight culture is the thing to strive for. You don’t have to do that.” And we move on. If the therapist starts to pay more attention to my genitals than I want I just calmly say, “That’s okay. I know then that my whole body is going to get the attention I want. I go to the privately owned massage places where they offer to cover you with only a towel, and are perfectly willing to not cover you at all if you request it. They wrap you up like a mummy, and uncover only the one body part they are working on, and mostly don’t even touch the middle third of your body. I stopped going to chain massage spas or hotel spas a long time ago. Arnau loves being a victim and all the attention he is getting from this. I don’t believe for one moment that Arnau didn’t walk into that spa with the intent of doing exactly what he did. It could be said here that Arnau’s silence was consent. Having said that, Tian may have crossed that line, but Arnau, by his own admission, did nothing to communicate what he wanted. But just having touched it while the masseur is doing his job is no reason for any guy to be upset. One of our core goals is to help parents restrict access to BoyfriendTV for minors, so we have ensured that BoyfriendTV is, and remains, fully compliant with the RTA (Restricted to Adults) code. Lingering there is the fine line that may be crossed, and if the client doesn’t want any more contact with his penis than would come from the masseur doing his job while working on the inner thigh and pelvis, he can indicate that. BoyfriendTV is an adults-only website is strictly limited to those over 18 or of legal age in your jurisdiction, whichever is greater. Even in a non-sexual massage there may be contact with the penis. There are muscles all the way up the inner thigh that for a complete and non-sexual massage should be massaged. Gay clubs for men in New York Total Relaxation Social Clubs For Gay & Bisexual Men EAST SIDE CLUB BY CLICKING ON EITHER OF THE ABOVE BUTTONS YOU ARE STATING THAT YOU OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE AND YOU AGREE TO THE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE CLUBS. There are muscles in the glutes (the ass) that absolutely should be massaged.