I used to work in a bulk mail center in Seattle. One of their ironic clients was Bulk Male, a quarterly adult magazine appealing to a gay subgenre: Fat Fetishists. The magazines were hand inserted by a small army of multinational immigrants into classic plain brown envelopes. I remember the Christmas issue in particular. The cover featured a bearded mountain man sporting a Santa Clause hat, his fur-barrel of a chest straining a leather vest. The headline was Goodman is Gay.

I thought I had successfully healed most of the scars opened by my inadvertent glances, but they were recently reopened. I was fine tuning my WordPress blog, and Googling to check the status of some of my recent entries. What a surprise! When following Google links into my page, I was greeted with Google-Ads, based (loosely) on my search terms. One of these ads was for gaycuddlybears.com.

Thank you WordPress, for widening my stance.

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