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it's all in the thought!
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it's all available to the highest bidder
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don't remember. must have been good
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pumpkin flavored vodka
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hershey's chocolate
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visit a gym
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Hermain Cane speaking spanish
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Okay, I'll get this party started. For me, it was Judith Krantz's romance novel "Scruples" (yes, I'm dating myself). My southern Baptist mom came home for church one evening and caught her teenage son innocently watching the miniseries "Scruples" starring Lindsay Wagner and Barry Bostwick (at the time, I couldn't understand why I was so strongly drawn to the huge bulge in Barry's trousers throughout the series...and his cute tight whities in the "Rocky Horror Picture Show"). Mom knew I was a huge fan of Lindsay Wagner ("Bionic Woman" for you young'uns), Lynda Carter ("Wonder Woman") and Pam Grier ("Coffy" and "Foxy Brown") -- which should have been a huge clue to both me and my mom. Knowing that I was an avid reader, my mom decided to surprise me by giving me a copy of the novel. Well unbeknownst to mommie dearest and to my pleasant surprise, there is a very graphic scene in the novel where the main character's boyfriend is caught having passionate butt sex with his secret male lover. For reasons I couldn't immediately comprehend, that scene ignited a fire deep within my soul that could not be extinguished with a deluge of wet dreams (and there were plenty). Of course during that time in my teenage life, I had been exposed to pornographic material depicting gay or bisexual encounters. However, "Scruples" touched me because the character was more than a sex object. Judith Krantz introduced a gay character that was a NYC business executive. He had a life, a career...he was real (as a fictional character can be). It planted in my mind the notion of gays having real lives with real careers, such as being producers, writers, accountants, engineers,...whatever they choose to be. So thank you mommie dearest and thank you Judith Krantz!
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