Thinking of England

He looks like an utterly delightful chap:

He's here to illustrate a particular sub-genre of gay porn: what I think of as the "Lying back and thinking of England" sub-genre.

This sub-genre (let's call it a genre from now on, shall we?) derives, I think, from the typical gay fantasy of "let's molest a straight man".

In this, some archetypal specimen of masculine hunkiness is objectified by The Gay.

It's usually important that the specimen (or "object") is hyper masculine, sll muscley and sporty...

Then, for some flimsy reason or other, we get to strip him:

Bizarrely (well, this is a fantasy) he is not at all offended and, instead, shows obvious signs of arousal and excitement.

We get to try out our rude desires on him, titillating and stimulating him.

There may even be an occasional sign that he is, in fact, into this, a cooperative move on his part to expose some different feature for our (and, presumably, for his) sexual pleasure.

What is without doubt is that he becomes a willing -- perhaps even enthusiastic -- conspirator in our seduction/molestation.

We engage in our desires with horny enthusiasm, perhaps (this tending to be an early fantasy) more enthusiastic than skillful or imaginative.

It doesn't matter: throughout, our hyper-masculine object is, perhaps perversely, a textbook example of passivity, clearly being done to rather than doing.

Hence, he reminds me of nothing so much as the stereotypically prim Victorian middle class woman, just lying back and thinking of England while her man does unspeakable things to her in the name of rooting sexuality.

Nice...