Morning Light

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Golden-Coloured Eyes

Brown hares have large golden-coloured eyes set on the side of their heads, providing them with almost 360 degree vision. . . . This all-round vision means that from their hiding place they can view everything about them. It is a fallacy that hares never close their eyes. They shut them when they are fighting to avoid injury and also when they are dozing. In common with many other animals that are the prey rather than the hunter, they do not go into a deep sleep.

– Jill Mason
The Hare
pp. 49-50

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Mark

Mark Coles Smith (born February 22, 1987) is an Indigenous Australian actor originally from Broome, Western Australia.

Coles Smith made his debut in the Network Ten children's TV show Ocean Star at the age of 14 after being taken to an open audition by his aunt.

In 2007 Coles Smith received the VCA Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts' Yvonne Cohen Award, and graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Aboriginal Theatre. He currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2015 Coles Smith won the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Tilly [left] in Last Cab to Darwin. He was also nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role by both the Australian Film Institute and the Australian Film Critics Association.

His most recent role was as Tom [below] in the 2018 television series Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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Related Off-site Links:
Mark Coles Smith on What Indigenous Film and Television Characters Mean for Aboriginal Australia – Ben Collins (ABC News, January 31, 2017).
An Interview with Indigenous Actor Mark Coles Smith – Jim Schembri (Street Smart, April 22, 2016).

See also the previous posts: Jason | Jamie | Lyriq | Philip | Don | LeBron | Jayjay | Donald | Geremy | Jerome | Solomon | Colin | Luis | Nyle | Philip | Charlie | Sukdeep | Rafael | Mon Bel Ami

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Hare Décor

See also the previous posts:
• Hare Décor, 4/20/18
• Hare Décor 7/28/17
• Hare Décor, 1/25/17
• Hare Décor, 4/6/15
• Hare Décor, 12/13/12

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Buddies

The Leveret’s series celebrating mutual masturbation between two or more men continues.

As noted in the first installment of this series, those who participate in this activity sometimes refer to themselves as “jack-off buddies” or “j/o buddies.”

The Leveret’s “Buddies” series features images found online of jack-off buddies accompanied by various writings about the sexual practice of mutual masturbation.

In this third installment I share Joe Morgan’s fascinating December 2018 Gay Star News article, “Four Out of Five Men Don't Think Mutual Masturbation Is a ‘Gay’ Act.” As Morgan notes, his piece is a response to Kyle Mustain’s Slate article, “Helping a Brother Out,” which examines the website BateWorld and the “vibrant community” it hosts of “straight men who enjoy masturbating together.” Both articles highlight that how these straight men make sense of this “says a lot about the nature of male sexuality.”

Enjoy!

Four out of five men don’t think mutual masturbation is a “gay” act, according to male masturbation fans.

Kyle Mustain, a writer for Slate, has conducted an informal study of nearly 87,000 Bateworld users.

Using the website known as the “Facebook for masturbators,” he wanted to understand the site’s self-proclaimed straight men who enjoy masturbating with other guys.

He used the website’s user-created polling questionnaires to ask, “Is mutual masturbation gay?”

And to his surprise, he found 82% of 565 respondents said mutual masturbation isn’t gay.

For the second question, he also asked about various actions which “makes” a man gay.

Most men then responded with “kissing another guy” and “becoming emotionally involved with a male sex partner.”

“According to these responders,” Mustain wrote, “touching a cock isn’t gay; lips touching lips is gay; and for that matter, heart touching heart is really gay.”

He added: “It can be frustrating, seeing straight men debate the infinitesimal difference between touching your own cock and someone else’s, hearing each one hand-wring about ‘how far he’ll go,’ and whether double penetration or using a Fleshlight on a friend is gay.”

Mustain references the sociologist Jane Ward’s book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men in his article. Ward says straight white men have sexual encounters with other men often employ “props, costumes and dialogue” to have sex with men while upholding their heterosexuality.

“They get drunk and stoned, watch heterosexual porn, and they talk about ‘pussy,’” Ward writes. “The [personal] ads draw heavily upon the model of adolescent friendship, or the presumably meaningless and proto-sexual circle jerk. [They also mention] nostalgic commentary about being buddies or ‘bros’ and sharing ‘legit’ male bonding experiences. . . .”

Mustain concludes: “What I have also found on BateWorld is that these lines between ‘just fucking around’ and ‘kinda gay’ and ‘OK, that’s really gay’ are indeed superficial and imaginary.’

NEXT: Part IV

See also the previous posts:
• Buddies, 11/2/18
• Buddies, 2/27/19
• Reaching Out
• A Means of Making Contact
• Not a Weapon or a Mere Tool
• Phallus
• Penis
• Hard
• Soft
• Rethinking the “Normal” Penis (Part I)
• Rethinking the “Normal” Penis (Part II)

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Candlebright

For no special reason
I am leaving you for awhile tonight
I'm flying far above you
Still I love you
You make things right

I've been with you before
I'll be with you again
I'll come back for more, yeah
The story has a strange ending

Well, you know me, I'm a nomad
I can't feel bad about the way I am
I've been rolling around
My whole life
You're my candlebright
In the window

You guide me back again
And I come when you shine . . .

– From "Candlebright
by Stevie Nicks

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