It is a universally acknowledged truth that a bottom boy with a bubble butt must be in need of a hung top. That particular problem of the gay world was as pertinent in Jane Austen's time as it is now. The woman may have known everything about matchmaking but is...

I had dinner last week with a group of wealthy American conservatives, two of them former U.S. senators. I was asked which lodge I belonged to, how disappointed I was that Obama got reelected, what I thought of the dangers of gay marriage, the left's assault on the freedom to...

Condoms protect from all kinds of sexually transmitted diseases. They are a good thing, especially when you are young and promiscuous. And yet barebacking is on the increase worldwide. HIV infection rates amongst young men are not coming down. Some countries with a big ecstasy ("E") problem have soaring infection...

I thought my life was special. As a business consultant, I traveled millions of miles and saw the world; now, as a writer, I visit all those fantastic places all over again on book tours and journeys of inspiration. But at the end of a trip, business or pleasure, I...

It's not just because I am on Scruff. It's not just because, spending much time in Asia, I sometimes get a craving for thick chest hair. It's a genuinely objective observation: Beards are back in fashion around the world. I've been to 18 countries in the last year, and everywhere...

And what did you do for Christmas? I'll tell you what I did: I danced in a bear club with a man in a wheelchair!

I've never been a great fan of conventions. Mistletoe and Christmas trees? Pah. Stuff the turkey dinner and the family drama! Traditions are like...

Earlier this year one of my Huffington Post pieces about barebacking, "No Latex, No Love," caused quite a stir. I received a lot of emails and Twitter (@webmarten) messages from people telling me I got it wrong and should let people do what they want. "Shut...

Oh yeah? But they do pretty much everything else. Male sexuality is chaotic, irritating, and full of vestigial warrior ethos and beautiful contradictions.

Just back from the mountains we stopped in Vienna for Christmas (wonderful mulled wine and enormous sausages!) And what did we do? We met a straight...

Winter is a marvelous time to visit Austria. Hubby and I went straight into the mountains for a weekend of spa pleasures. Wonderful scenery, hot Glühwein, amazing food and plenty of snow. Too much snow, really. My feet are still cold.

Yet despite the many tourists, this is not...

The Republicans want low taxes. Lower taxes. Lower! Lower! With quasi-religious fervor, they pledge never to raise them again. The Grand Master of the no-tax lodge, Mr. Norquist is already such a silly figure that even people in his own party have stopped taking him seriously.

Which is...

There are times when it hurts not to be American. On election night, I regretted nothing more than not holding an American passport. I would have voted. I wanted desperately to be a part of this resounding victory of reason over bigotry.

In my books, I often...

You know, I don't believe in labels. Adjectives of all sorts are monstrously overused in our brand-conscious world. We are used to buying without examining the object itself; rather, we are propelled by preconceptions and influenced by advertisement. Likewise, we are used to finding and dating people based on simplified...

What do images of hard-bodied muscle hunks have to do with the disappearance of homophobia? No, I have not gone bonkers. I have just spent a weekend talking to six adorable straight athletes about homophobia, homoerotica, homosexuality, and rugby, which is enough to drive any self-disrespecting queer mad.

It...

Deportation of HIV-positive foreigners is still a common occurrence in too many countries.

Imagine this: You have lived 10, 15, maybe 20 years in a foreign country. Your life partner is with you. Your job is here. All your friends are here with you. You bought an apartment, a house,...

But a new generation of vocal artists has more courage.

As an out gay writer, I find that one of the most rewarding developments of the last decade is the emergence of proud and out artists around the world and the amazing indie art scene they have created. No longer...

WARNING: Sexual content. Reader discretion is advised.

As anyone who has ever been skillfully buggered knows, anal sex -- at least for the prostate-endowed -- is the best invention since sliced bread. Straight men have recently discovered "prostate massage" and "prostate stimulation." According to a manufacturer of sex toys I...

Listening to the cacophony of the Republican nomination race, and now the presidential hopefuls, I cannot help but think that religious people really have it easy. They have only one enemy: evil. Whatever argument you bring against their intransigent, intolerant beliefs, they can always argue that you are the devil....

Summer is here, and so, after nine months of writing a new novel, and in rather desperate need of a tan, yours truly took his husband to a European beach resort for Gay Pride. Imagine sun, beaches, concerts, drag queens, Lady Gaga and Kylie impersonators, skinny models, gogo boys, and...

In what is becoming a kaleidoscope of idiocy and a roller-coaster of misdirection, religious personalities around the world are lately discovering what gay marriage can lead to. These unfounded fears of conservative minds reach from the sociologically succinct (but no less misguided) "gay marriage will sever bonds of traditional society"...

Ever since The Science of Desire by Dean Hamer (1993), the scientific world and gays and lesbians around the world have been plagued by the idea of a single gene controlling human sexual orientation. The specter of de-gaying by gene therapy has haunted us ever since.

Attempts to remove gay...