The Book, page 1, Steve Drake

When I was a budding gay in high school (and not quite sure how to deal with the fact that I was a budding gay), I would scour straight porn for hot guys. Anyone who tried this in the early 90's knows that there were very few hot guys in straight porn, so it really was a time intensive labor of love in the pre-internet days. It mostly involved a lot of disappointing late night purchases from magazine stands and porno shops. So, rather than keep bundles of disjointed pornography under my bed that would surely be discovered by my snooping mother, my solution was to take the hottest images I could find, then paste, tape or staple them rather amateurishly inside a book that I thought my parents would never open. It was a book called "Gods and Goddesses" from a Time/Life series called "The Enchanted World". Not only was it unlikely to be nabbed off the shelves, but in my teenage mind thought the choice was a little funny in a tongue in cheek sort of way (I was 16...give me some leeway). In some of the scans you can see tidbits of book in the margins. The bit of prose captured are often nearly as apropos/comical as the ridiculous porn type that accompanies the photos. The beginning of this blog will be a trip through this book, which I have always wanted to preserve for the insight it gives into my horny pre-gay teenage mind. The blurry focus is clearly on the guys, but I must warn you, there is some vaj.

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Steve Drake is the guy with the stache, and he was one on my favs. His Magnum PI-type looks really got me going. I stumbled on a detailed site dedicated to him recently that I would have killed for when I was younger. Kids today have it so easy. Much more on Steve to come.