Mike Alvear is a co-host of HBO's sex advice series,The Sex Inspectors and a frequent commentator for NPR's All Things Considered. He is also the exclusive columnist for Manhunt.net, the largest gay dating site. He writes a nationally-syndicated column to the gay press and blogs at www.mikealvear.com. To see a
short reel of his TV appearances on Greg Behrendt, Tyra Banks, etc., click here.

Blog Entries by Mike Alvear

The Government Lawyer Who Fired His Transgendered Employee Had a Point, But ...

Posted November 10, 2009 | 01:22 PM (EST)


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Poof! Just like that, Glenn became Vandy. And got fired. Was it wrong?

Glenn Morrison wrote and edited state laws for his boss, Georgia Legislative Counsel Sewell Brumby. Then one...
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What Thomas Jefferson Would Think of Maine Voting on Other People's Rights

5 Comments | Posted November 3, 2009 | 03:00 PM (EST)


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There is only one thing worse than voting to deny somebody their rights: Voting to give it to them.

Sometimes I wonder how the framers of the...

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Gay Dating: Can You Be Too Gay Online?

1 Comments | Posted October 29, 2009 | 06:13 PM (EST)


What if you're too effeminate or too Goth and you know most guys aren't into that? Here's how to, ahem, massage the truth, without actually lying.

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Atlanta Gay Pride Throws Victims of Police Raid Under the Bus

Posted October 27, 2009 | 02:10 PM (EST)


Six weeks ago, the Atlanta police threw everybody in a gay bar called The Eagle--including sixty year old men--to the ground, handcuffing them face down on the floor (many were laying on broken glass), confiscating their IDs, and shouting homophobic slurs. After two hours, they finally let everyone go. Without...

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Air In the Hands, Mother-Stickers, This Is a F*ck Up!

1 Comments | Posted October 24, 2009 | 12:53 PM (EST)


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Ever say something that came out wrong? Your body does it all the time.


Here's how to make sure it doesn't happen.


I was with...

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A Side by Side Comparison of TV Ads on Maine's Gay Marriage Law

1 Comments | Posted October 15, 2009 | 06:48 PM (EST)


The right emphasizes the gayducation of children while proponents focus on family values.

Maine legalized same sex marriage this past June but The Right Wing managed to put it on the ballot for this November. Here's how the TV wars are going:

The commercials from the Right do not...

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Can You Change the Kind of Body You're Sexually Attracted to?

2 Comments | Posted October 15, 2009 | 05:54 PM (EST)


Women can do it because they can attach erotic desire to personality traits. Men? Ha!

That's why most of us live within the narrow confines of our sexual bandwidth. The point was poignantly made by one gay guy who wrote to me:

"Guys nearly always want someone with their...

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Gay Dating: The 5 Principles of Gay Body Language

1 Comments | Posted October 2, 2009 | 11:31 AM (EST)


As the author of the first body language book for gay men, I'm often asked how male body language affects guy-on-guy dating. The answer: plenty. But to understand why certain postures, gestures and expressions make you more appealing to gay guys, you have to understand the 5 major principles of...

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Gay Dating: How to Use Texts Like a Pheromone

1 Comments | Posted September 23, 2009 | 03:14 PM (EST)


If you can't master the keys on the phone you're never going to get the keys to his door.
Studies show the average person sends or receives over 100 texts a year. If you've met somebody you're interested in, you've gotta learn the art of going from textual to...

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Anatomy of a Southern Sex Panic: The Atlanta Police Raid a Gay Bar

Posted September 15, 2009 | 03:47 PM (EST)


What happens when police think sex poses a greater threat than home invasions?

Atlanta's gay community woke up with a shock last week when they learned that dozens of cops stormed into a tranquil gay bar, forced 62 patrons to lay on the grubby floors face down for...

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Stonewall 2009: Police Raid Gay Bar in Atlanta on Account of Because.

69 Comments | Posted September 15, 2009 | 02:19 PM (EST)


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How could something like this happen in Martin Luther King's home town?

The following occurred about a mile away from my home in Atlanta, Georgia at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, September...

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The Ten Best Celebrity Feet (Male Division)

1 Comments | Posted September 2, 2009 | 01:25 PM (EST)


Which male celebrity has the best looking feet? I asked a bunch of foot fetishists and here's the list they came up with. Stay tuned for the list of ugliest celebrity feet. I swear, you'll take a look at some of those stubs and yell,...
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Top 10 Celebrity Feet (Women)

3 Comments | Posted August 24, 2009 | 05:25 PM (EST)


Which celebrities have the most beautiful feet? I asked a bunch of foot fetishists (they were in New York for the annual Foot Ball where the featured attraction was the contest for Best Foot Strip Tease). Here is their list of the top 10...
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Gay Dating: How Gay Body Language Works

4 Comments | Posted August 12, 2009 | 11:34 AM (EST)


Everybody knows frowning and crossing your arms is the equivalent of throwing Kryptonite at the Superman you're hawkin' on, but what about barely noticeable body language?

If you're skeptical about how the subtlest body language affects gay love lives, play a game with me.

Straighten your arm as if you...

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Why America Bares Its Neck for Alexander Skarsgard

2 Comments | Posted August 3, 2009 | 01:03 PM (EST)


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Who Wouldn't Want to Be Drained by Him?


There's a rash of plunging necklines across the country
as women (and men)...

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What Straight Men can Learn from Gay Porn

4 Comments | Posted July 28, 2009 | 03:41 PM (EST)


Where the women at? It's hard to imagine heterosexual men sitting on the Barcalounger fast-forwarding through gay porn, but they probably couldn't find a better way to learn how to please women.

My friend, blogger Susan Walsh, came up with the idea of straight guys watching gay porn as...

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Atlanta Pounds San Francisco in Sex Survey

4 Comments | Posted July 16, 2009 | 02:38 PM (EST)


The results of Trojan's nationwide sex survey shows show that Americans are living in Lake Wobegon-- where all the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the sex is above average. Yes, the average American believes they have an above average sex life.

I usually ignore corporate-sponsored sex...

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Sarah, You're a Sissy

30 Comments | Posted July 6, 2009 | 11:24 AM (EST)


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Alaska prepares for its first Bimbo Eruption.


Sarah Palin, who's only served as Alaska's governor since 2006, resigned today, effective in a couple of weeks. She made the stunning announcement in a press...

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Why Men Relate to Governor Sanford

30 Comments | Posted July 3, 2009 | 03:16 PM (EST)


... And Elliot Spitzer, John Edwards and Bill Clinton.

We can't understand why these guys handled the aftermath of their affairs with such monumental stupidity, but, inject us with truth serum, banish the women and you'll get a rather inconvenient truth: We understand why they did it.

We understand the...

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Gay Dating: Women Are Ruining Sex for Gay Guys

16 Comments | Posted June 20, 2009 | 02:14 PM (EST)


I'm furious at my girlfriends. As more and more gay guys adopt their dating strategies (no sex without dating), people like me are getting less and less sex.

I'm from the old school. I believe in sex before dating.

There's a reason for that. Nothing kills sexual attraction more...

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