What the hell is going on over there at G-Men Magazine??!!!
It's like Japan has gone completely mad!
Has anyone else been increasingly disappointed by the magazine's covers?
They are just getting worse and worse!
For years, the cover photo on G-Men was a work of art ... a homage to stocky Asian men ... something to look forward to and cherish forever.
I'm not going crazy here, am I?
I just can't bear it anymore. Take a look at the evidence of the last three issues. You can see their covers online at gproject.com but, for argument's sake, i have included them here.
The most recent cover online is May 2010.
OK the guy is Asian and he is a bit stocky.
But mainly he is kind of chubby[ish] ... quite non-descript really, and not very interesting from a testosterone point of view.
Now comes the so-called 'sexiness' of the pic ... the guy has one hand down his jocks and the other is pinching his nipple.
Alright, i know that might look very hot if another guy was doing it, but this guy?!
To make matters even worse, this poor boy looks like he is actually in pain and quite mortified to be on camera.
I've always found that so strange about some Japanese porn [gay and straight], you know... that the actor/model often shows that what they are doing is painful rather than pleasurable, or against their wishes rather than the preferential choice of a willing adult. It is undignified and inappropriate for an 'out and proud' gay audience.
Maybe that's the problem... is the majority of Japanese readers of G-Men neither out nor proud?
Either way, the editors of the mighty mag ought to give us better than this.
Has the policy of the editors changed? What's going on over there?
Are g-men nolonger 'sexy' enough a commodity for them to market?!
Looking at cover number two...
My reading of the content of the cover pic [in this new light] is that things
are changing - editorially speaking.
In this case, we don't have a butch stocky g-man either. The Asian guy they used is cute enough - I'll grant them that - but he's no 'man' and looks more like a twinky, quasi-chubby teen who just needs a cuddle from his 'Daddy'.
Now, this brings me to the RACE issue...
'Daddy' is a white, older man [if my eyes aren't mistaken]
Pardon me if I'm wrong here, but i always believed that the real beauty of the g-man phenomenon was that it is all about stocky Asian men.
So where have the western men come from?
Have they been introduced to increase sales of G-Men magazine outside of Japan?
I hope not.
And what about the younger Asian guys worming their way onto the covers of G-Men Magazine?
Are they replacing the older g-men types in order to appeal to western gentlemen who prefer much younger Asians?
I really do hope not.
Have real g-men been replaced now in favour of the older white 'rice-queen' market?
Oh dear God, i certainly hope not.
Now
I'M a forty-five year old Irish white man myself, who prefers stocky Asian men, but i don't want that reduced right down to the level of elderly white men paying young Asian boys for sex!
Is that where the wonderous miracle that has created the G-Men phenomenon all going?!
FOR GOD'S SAKE please don't allow g-men to be pushed aside for that!
But, no... calm, calm, calm ... maybe the second cover was only going for that raunchy, sub-dom, muscley, cuddly, bi-racial, 'pretend' daddy-son vibe.
But, really, does the dominant daddy-type HAVE to be a white skinhead?
NOW, that thought finally brings me to the third cover pic...
Horror of horrors! This one actually appears to morph all my worst fears about where these covers appear to be headed into a single, disappointing image:
No stocky Asian g-man type whatsoever! Nothing! Nada! Niente!
Gone too is the younger, twinkier, Asian boy-man too!
The white guy has triumphed supreme!
But not even the stocky daddy type, Oh no.
We are, in fact, reduced to gazing in disbelief at a YOUNG, WHITE, SKINHEAD, TOP BOY who looks like he is not even GAY, for fuck sake!
He looks more like a mid-western, ku klux klan red-neck or an English, smack-head THUG ... someone who is more likely to QUEER-BASH you rather than rejoice in the natural act of hot, man-on-man, honest-to-God, GAY SEX!
Actually, I wonder if this particular cover isn't much better than undiluted self-hatred and internalised homophia!
Maybe the guy hurting himself in the pic on the front of the current issue is also expressing the idea that it is understandable - OK even - for a gay man to HATE himself rather than enjoy love.
