This week: three new reader questions and an important update.
Ask Beastly: Top Lessons
This week: Are you masturbating too much? Good topping needs practice, and we all need a good butt doctor.
Ask Beastly: My Girlfriend Won’t Play With My Butt
This week: Why you should have sex before marriage, a guy needs butt love, and how to grow your hole.
Sending My Sad, Worn-Down Love to America
Some thoughts on my home country from Berlin.
Ask Beastly: IRL, Part Two
This week: more bug-chasing, more mean gays, and more sex parties.
Ask Beastly: Working Boy, Part Two
This week: advice for a guy curious about sex work, and how to learn sober sex.
Ask Beastly: Dive
This week: face fisting, bottoming in nature, and the real health risks of eating ass and how to prevent them.
Ask Beastly: Shame, Shame
This week: How does sex happen on a gay cruise? Why does wild sex make us feel shame? And much more.
Feedback: Leather Memories
New feedback post, because German class is hard. I reply to notes from readers, soul brothers, and someone I fisted at MAL.
Ask Beastly: Bathhouse Rules
This week: What are bathhouse rules? Do daddies need aftercare? And why are gay bars so defeating sometimes?
Ask Beastly: Power Exchange
This week: three kinky questions, with help from Master Phil and Race Bannon.
Ask Beastly: Sex Breaks
This week: my final bug-chasing question (please), dealing with PrEP shame, and taking a sex break.
Beastly Style Guide: Thirties
My first style post in ten years. New decade, new thoughts on living well.
Ask Beastly: Thongs
This week: problems with cumming, dick insecurity, and thongs, baby!
Feedback: Pussy
Some nice feedback about my book, my butthole, and my ex-boyfriend.
Ask Beastly: How to Be a Better Fist Top
This week: a new fist top needs a hole, a new bottom needs help, and a new throuple needs saving.
Ask Beastly: Don’t Be a Bad Guy
This week: confessions of a cheater, sexting tips from Troy Daniels, and finding peace in impermanence.
Ask Beastly: F-Slur
This week: some fetishes must stay secret, and why I call myself a f*ggot.
Welcome Back
Let’s get this machine up and running again.
Ask Beastly: Cum Control
This week: an expensive European gangbang, a partner who will not top, and a working boy in London.
Ask Beastly: Gender Trouble
This week: bottoming, playing with gender, and being the other man.
Ask Beastly: A Woman Rides the Beast
This week: all bodies need pleasure, a straight man needs pegging, and a fist bottom needs help.
Ask Beastly: What You Should Know About Poppers
This week: how to find a gay-friendly doctor, and how to build a sex life without poppers.
Ask Beastly: LDR
This week: a straight couple wants to do long-distance, someone has a tickle fetish, and another is a boy.
Ask Beastly: Gangbang
This week: managing risk in groups, shopping for sex, and my secret to making good porn.
Ask Beastly: The Party Never Dies
My take on Steamworks Chicago, hooking up in NYC, and the best cruising bars in the world.
Ask Beastly: Big Life Question
This week: being gay and Deaf or hard of hearing, writing about what you love, and not giving up.
Feedback: Funny Brain
Another round of reader feedback.
Ask Beastly: The Self Dance
This week: the relationships we keep — with ourselves, our minds, our partners, our lovers, and our butts.
Ask Beastly: Don’t Be a Kink Tourist
This week: brutal body image issues, digital kink, and being a kink tourist.
Ask Beastly: Anal Aftercare
This week: fissures, growth seasons, and giving in to your desires.
Ask Beastly: Practice Round
This week: finding your people and getting some practice.
Ask Beastly: Going There
This week: Folsom Berlin, necrophilia, and long-distance relationships.
Ask Beastly: How to Top
This week: treating ED, managing anxiety, and fucking hole.
Feedback: Virtus
This week: reader feedback.
Ask Beastly: Boycunt
This week: sex with trans guys, and how to find kinky people.
Ask Beastly: Cuckold
This week: sex after trauma, how to plan a gang-bang, and the increasingly popular cuckold fetish.
Ask Beastly: Everyone Has Herpes
Two readers have questions about herpes. A third reader wants hot pegging sex with her boyfriend.
Ask Beastly: Thank you, Satan!
One reader is probably bisexual, another is gay, and another has to use condoms because of his health.
Ask Beastly: Why We Ask for Pronouns
My advice for dealing with a neurodivergent mind, a bisexual fiancee, and pronoun culture.
Ask Beastly: This Is for Your Family
This week: bad relatives, slutty roommates, and how to be an ally.
Ask Beastly: Why Porn Is Good
This week: falling for a sex worker, enema play, and having a better relationship with porn.
Ask Beastly: Sex Work Questions
One reader has a crush, another has the money, and the third one wants to know what we really think.
Ask Beastly: The Fisters and Their Friends
This week: four fisting questions answered.
Being Here
This week: my advice for the blues.
Ask Beastly: City Boy
One reader needs virgin advice, another needs douching help, and another needs to move.
Ask Beastly: How to Live in a Wonderful World of Drugs
This week: three questions about drug use and harm reduction.
Love Letter to Brent
This week: not broken, just a breakup.
Ask Beastly: Just Like Riding a Bicycle
One reader wants to explore lady love while keeping her husband. Another needs a confidence boost.
Ask Beastly: Tristesse
One reader needs good lube, another gets post-sex depression, and another asks about getting too loose — again.
Feedback: Shame Is Cancelled
Reader feedback and a Twitter discussion on cancel culture.
Ask Beastly: Fuck Your Way to Confidence
What to do when you’re feeling un-fuckable.
Ask Beastly: Future Fist Pig
How to prepare your butt for fisting.
Ask Beastly: Wet and Messy
This week: popping your butt cherry, WAM fetish, and the problems with wearing anything 24/7.
Ask Beastly: Welcome to Kink
This week: kink and past trauma, and getting into kink as a beginner.
You Have to Hear It
A post about my writing process.
Feedback: Lost Souls
Another feedback post! I respond to ten messages from readers — no questions, just stories and thoughts.
Ask Beastly: Hard
This week: an older gay man feels disconnected from gay culture, and another is exploring ways to treat E.D.
Ask Beastly: The Other Man
A reader’s husband cheated and now he wants to fuck the other guy.
Ask Beastly: Bodies Are Hard Things to Live In
This week: HIV disclosure, and how I cope with body dysmorphia.
Ask Beastly: Top Trouble
This week: the struggle of being a fem top, and masturbating while at work.
Ask Beastly: Head Games
This week: voyeurism, talking to your partner about an open relationship, and how to improve your oral skills.
Welcome to Life, You Dirty Book
It’s here.
Ask Beastly: We Belong
A nonbinary reader is struggling with gay hookup apps.
Ask Beastly: The Joy of Group Sex
This week: how to plan a sex group, and managing anxiety at a sex party.
Ask Beastly: Hey Sucker
How to train yourself to be an oral sex god.
Ask Beastly: Get Gross
This week: a spit fetish, a creamy pussy, a scat fetish, and how to (allegedly) make cum taste great.
Feedback: Happiness Only Real When Shared
I’m responding to more reader feedback.
A Talk Between Friends on Love
I’m sharing a chat I had with a friend about his relationship and why it’s not working.
Eulogy for a Lost Gay Man
Goodbye, dear friend.
Ask Beastly: Open Up
Two reader relationships are not working. Here is my advice.
Ask Beastly: How Poly Works
My advice on communication strategies and more for a polyamorous relationship.
Ask Beastly: The Undervalued, Old School Orange Hanky
In a culture of specific labels and fetishes, how do you say you’re game for everything?
Ask Beastly: How to Be Brave
Three readers want to explore wild sex and need help finding the courage.
Ask Beastly: IRL
Two readers want more kink in their lives. Here’s my advice.
Ask Beastly: Size Queen
This week: the BBC myth has racist roots, plus some practical advice on gags.
Ask Beastly: Working Boy
Sex work is not sex trafficking — explained by sex work activist Maggie Mayhem.
Third Year Love
This week: 30 lessons I’ve learned from being in a great open relationship.
Ask Beastly: What Goes on a Dating App
This week: what personal details belong on dating and hookup apps?
Ask Beastly: How to Cheat With Permission
A reader loves his partner but can’t stop cheating.
21 Reasons To Buy My Slutty Book
My upcoming book, MY LOVE IS A BEAST, hits shelves this October.
Ask Beastly: Sex After COVID
A vaccinated couple disagrees on when it’s safe to start fucking around.
Ask Beastly: Body Talk
One reader feels he is too skinny to date, and another feels too overweight.
Ask Beastly: How To Fuck Your Friends
My advice on navigating casual sex friendships.
Ask Beastly: Anger Management
This week: healing from the trauma of the closet.
Ask Beastly: Why We Love Drugs
This week: dealing with bottom shame, and the close relationship between drugs and wild sex.
Ask Beastly: Butt Stuff
This week: anal fissures, hemorrhoids, and prolapses.
Ask Beastly: XXL
Advice for two XXL tops trying to date each other, and advice for a guy with a smaller cock.
I’m Going Hunting
Here’s my personal ad.
Ask Beastly: What Is Porn?
A reader enjoys birthing videos and wants to know if it’s ethical to do so.
Ask Beastly: Hung Does Not Equal Fun
I respond to a top-in-training with a smaller dick.
My Turn To Tell the Truth
A personal announcement and an update about this blog.
Ask Beastly: Seven Fisting Myths
I’m debunking some common myths about fisting and the guys who do it.
Ask Beastly: Hooked on a Feeling
I respond to two readers who think they are addicted to masturbation.
Ask Beastly: How to Tip an Escort
How to be a good client for the working boy in your life.
Ask Beastly: Toxic
An HIV-positive reader considers stopping his meds to “gift” HIV to his bug-chaser buddies.
Ask Beastly: Take You to the Candy Shop
A reader wants to stick hard candy up their butt.
Feedback: Sext Better With the Signal App
This week: some reader feedback.
Ask Beastly: Jack Off
Advice for a randy newcomer to the art of self-pleasure.
Ask Beastly: What an Anal Orgasm Feels Like
Explaining my favorite thing with help from my fisting sister, FFalconPunch.
Ask Beastly: We Have an Ableism Problem
All bodies belong in the pleasure palace.
Ask Beastly: Masc 4 Masc
A reader only likes masculine guys. Is this homophobia or just a preference?
Ask Beastly: The Douching Myth
Two questions about douching, answered.
Ask Beastly: Gay Men Rarely Say Goodbye Forever
A reader knows it’s time to break up. Should it be a “soft” breakup or total separation?
Ask Beastly: Get PrEPared
The difference between PEP and PrEP — two ways to protect yourself from HIV.
Ask Beastly: For Gay Men, Straight Men Are a Kink
It’s fine to have crushes, but those straight boys will never love you back.
Ask Beastly: How to Reject Your Faith
My advice for managing the harm and trauma of Christianity.
Ask Beastly: 19
My advice for a queer teen.
Ask Beastly: How To Find a Fuck Buddy
Tell him what you want. What you really, really want.
Ask Beastly: How to Gape a Butthole
Everyone loves big, puffy donuts.
Ask Beastly: Friends
A gay man needs help being gay. So do we all.
Ask Beastly: When to Leave
A reader knows it’s time for a divorce. But when? How?
Ask Beastly: Sex Addict
A reader’s new boyfriend claims to be a sex addict.
Ask Beastly: Gay and Christian
Two questions from gay Christians living in the closet.
Ask Beastly: Loosen Up
Let’s dispel a common myth about the butt.
Ask Beastly: Trans Men Belong in Gay Spaces
My advice for a transmasculine reader on playing in gay spaces — with help from Luke Hudson.
Ask Beastly: You Like a Guy in an Open Relationship
You fell for him. He’s dating someone already, but they’re open. What now?
Ask Beastly: How to Tell Your Parents About Escorting
If you do sex work, your parents will find out. Promise.
Ask Beastly: Can You Get HIV Twice?
A gay couple — both HIV-positive and undetectable — is worried about HIV “superinfection.”
Feedback: Thanks for the Love Notes
I get a lot of emails that aren’t questions — messages of feedback, thanks, and more. I decided to respond to some of them.
Ask Beastly: How to Become a Pup
This week: tickle fetish, spanking, and how to get into the pup scene.
Ask Beastly: Chems
Advice to a reader trying to cut meth from his life.
Ask Beastly: When Your Sex Life Feels Over
Medical issues can profoundly change your sex life, but they never have to end it.
Notes From the Epicenter
Musings on COVID-19.
Ask Beastly: Why Threesomes Are So Hard
One reader is new to HIV. Another wants a threesome with their bisexual husband.
Ask Beastly: Sex Is More Than Cumming
Two readers are having a hard time blowing a load during sex.
Ask Beastly: Monogamy Isn’t Good Enough
A reader understands non-monogamy but can’t get past his feelings of jealousy.
Ask Beastly: When You Should Hire an Escort
Sex workers can help you work through some personal challenges.
Ask Beastly: Going Poly
A polyamory success story.
Ask Beastly: The Case of the Closeted Gay Husband
A married woman thinks her husband is having an affair with a man.
Ask Beastly: Gotta Have My Pops
Poppers are great, but they do have risks.
Ask Beastly: Taboo
A reader has a “friend” with a very taboo fetish.
Ask Beastly: No One Belongs to You
This week: a reader wants to control his boyfriend.
Ask Beastly: Sex Workers, Don’t Text Your Clients
Advice for hookers with help from Tyler Dårlig Ulv.
Ask Beastly: Pierced
A reader wants a dick piercing.
Ask Beastly: When Everything’s Great Except the Sex
A reader wants to date his ex again, but the sex needs some work.
Ask Beastly: Getting Started
A reader is starting a relationship with someone who has a lot more sexual experience.
Ask Beastly: Why Some HIV-Positive People Don’t Tell
A reader is HIV-positive, undetectable, and going to a sex party.
Not a Top, Bottom, or Vers. Are You a Side?
Some queer men just don’t enjoy anal sex. That’s okay.
Ask Beastly: Why Condoms Suck
The best alternatives to condoms.
Ask Beastly: You Can’t Change Your Partner
A reader wishes his boyfriend would spend more time in the gym.
Ask Beastly: When It’s Time To Move On
Toss him in the discard pile, sweetie.
Ask Beastly: The Dealbreakers
This week: the three signs of a doomed relationship.
Ask Beastly: Fight Club
This week: my thoughts for a reader who needs hardcore kink.
Ask Beastly: How to Have Smarter, Better Bareback Sex
This week: some risk-reduction advice for a sex pig.
Beastly Reviews: The Best Films of 2017
This may be my last film post, so I’ll go out with a bang.
Ask Beastly: How to Help the Children
This week: my advice to a gay elder trying to mentor a young gay man.
Ask Beastly: Bottoming Tips
This week: how to train your tight hole for harder bottoming.
Ask Beastly: How to Gag Him
A reader wants to gag his hookups. How to talk about this?
Ask Beastly: How to Find Confidence
A reader has no sex experience and no confidence. Here’s my advice.
Ask Beastly: Scat
A reader wants to get dirty.
Ask Beatly: Bug-Chasing
I answer a reader’s questions about bug-chasing — the tabooed fetish of seeking HIV.
Ask Beastly: Text Him
A reader is thinking about messaging an old crush.
Ask Beastly: How to Write About Sex
A reader wants to start their own sex blog. Here’s my advice.
Ask Beastly: Tips for Being a Cum Dump
My favorite sport.
Ask Beastly: What the First Time Really Feels Like
A gay sex virgin wants his first time to happen like porn. It won’t.
Ask Beastly: 10 Tips for Throuples
My advice to a gay couple interested in dating a third guy.
Ask Beastly: How to Heal After a Breakup
How long does it take after a bad breakup to feel ready to date again?
Ask Beastly: Why Sex Matters
My advice for a 53-year-old virgin.
A Message for Future Gay Men
A message, a warning, a call-to-arms.
Ask Beastly: Gay Bar
A fresh newcomer to gay culture has questions. I have answers.
Ask Beastly: The Straight Truth
A straight white man wants to submit to a black gay dominant. Here’s my advice.
Ask Beastly: How to Douche Like a Champion
My regimen, explained.
Take Selfies, It’s Good for You
Vanity is self-care.
Love Letter to Forty-Nine Dancers
June 12, 2016
How to Do Drugs
Harm reduction saves lives.
What My Black Star Tattoo Means
A confession.
How L.A. Made Me Queer
I found myself in La La Land.
My Breakup, My Body, Everything Hurts
This is painful.
Why I Will Never Be Monogamous Again
This was a love lesson.
Beastly Reviews: The Best Films of 2015
I’m doing my own awards show.
Beastly Reviews: Macbeth
This arty film attempts to reinvent a 400-year-old play.
Beastly Reviews: Freeheld
A lesbian love story done badly.
What Happened at Folsom 2015
I have to tell this sex story.
Why I Stand With Rentboy
The anti-gay backlash has begun.
10 Rimming Tips for Butt Freaks
Eat ass. Do crime. Vive la liberté.
Beastly Reviews: The Overnight
Get into the swing of things.
What Love Won
On June 26, 2015, we became legal. I have mixed feelings about it.
Beastly Reviews: Jurassic World
Hot people face death.
Beastly Reviews: Tomorrowland
A funky future flick that failed.
Beastly Reviews: Mad Max: Fury Road
Fast and furious — and female.
The Sacred Heart of Puppy Play
Why I need it.
Beastly Reviews: Ex Machina
Straight guys need to stop falling in love with robots.
Love Letter to Jose
Goodbye, dear friend.
Let’s Play With RFRA
This is the Right’s new attempt to write anti-LGBT hate into law — and they might win.
Beastly Reviews: Fifty Shades of Grey
Beginner kink for straight people.
I’ll Be Homo for Christmas
Christmas on the farm.
Going Down
I brought a man home to meet my parents for the first time.
Leave My Boy Alone
In defence of the Devil.
The Fight Doesn’t Stop With Marriage
Brothers and sisters, we have more work to do.
Does Pride Still Matter?
Why we do it.
Beastly Reviews: Boyhood
This movie took twelve years to make.
Beastly Reviews: Begin Again
New York, New York.
Beastly Reviews: Snowpiercer
The not-so-little engine that could.
Depression Is a Beast
My advice on staying here.
Beastly Reviews: Farewell to Hollywood
Hollywood is scared of this movie.
Beastly Reviews: X-Men: Days of Future Past
What a mess.
Beastly Reviews: Neighbors
Zac Efron, the James Dean of our time.
Beastly Reviews: Tinder
Heterosexuals stole Grindr.
12 Things I Have Learned About Love
I edit and update this list every year or so as my love life evolves.
Beastly Reviews: Divergent
Christians love being oppressed.
Beastly Reviews: The Grand Budapest Hotel
A multilayered masterpiece.
Beastly Reviews: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
This disaster is swinging into a theater near you.
Love Letter to William
My first time.
Beastly Reviews: Noah
Director Darren Aronofsky has gone — forgive me for this — overboard.
Antichrist
Join me.
Love Letter to Chris
Thanks for helping me stay.
If Politicians Use Grindr, so Can You
In defence of hookup apps.
Beastly Reviews: The 2014 Academy Awards
In case you missed it.
Beastly Reviews: The LEGO Movie
Everything is awesome.
Beastly Style Guide: College
My sartorial two cents.
The Power of Elliot Page
The Oscar-nominated star paves the way for trans visibility.
These Ghosts
A college story.
30 Words Every Gay Man Should Know
Time for some vocabulary.
Beastly Reviews: Her
The best love story of our strange, solipsistic age.
I’m Coming Out
I want the world to know.
























































































































































































































