Guy-to-Guy Dating Service Ad

[Stella_Omega]

Or Laguna.

Too upscale these days, it's a bluecollar couple.

I miss the Laguna beach of the 70's

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Too upscale these days, it's a bluecollar couple.

I miss the Laguna beach of the 70's

The place has really gone glitter, hasn't it? No real artists seem to live there anymore, just the gallery owners. The only thing that I consider an improvement is the beach access for diving. Big lobsters off there. BTW, have you tried the new-ish restaurant called "Mozambique"? I really recommend it.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The place has really gone glitter, hasn't it? No real artists seem to live there anymore, just the gallery owners. The only thing that I consider an improvement is the beach access for diving. Big lobsters off there. BTW, have you tried the new-ish restaurant called "Mozambique"? I really recommend it.

I've been back to Laguna once, about two years ago. It made me want to cry...

A woman I met tells me there is one dirtroad neighborhood left, and the landowners are kind of wagon-circled to keep it that way.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I've been back to Laguna once, about two years ago. It made me want to cry...

A woman I met tells me there is one dirtroad neighborhood left, and the landowners are kind of wagon-circled to keep it that way.

Believe me, it's worse now. I haven't driven down the street yet when I haven't seen at least one example of the overplaying of the cosmetic surgeon's art. Like these women don't think everyone knows their relative silicone content?

 

[Stella_Omega]

We just went from a local Chicago dating service ad, to West Coast silicone.

Talk about a thread-jacking!

 

[emap]

Not just Chicago, I've been catching those ads for a year now I think. It's a local number so they expanded, or started here though I doubt Arizona would be a place to start a gay male phone chat. Most likely it started in Nevada or California and did well enough to expand.

 

[SemiColon]

There were tons of these in South Florida when I lived there 8 years ago. I never thought of it as a contradiction to the tasteful gay man stereotype, it just seems most of those things are geared towards men in general. I've yet to see one of hot men enticing ladies to call, or hot women enticing ladies to call, for that matter.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Really though, Doc if you are bemoaning the taste level of that ad, remember it was exactly that. Just because it was aimed at gay men doesn't particularly mean it was made by gay men-- could be someone figures to get a buck or two out of the new kids in town.

That's what I figure. It kind of looked like it was made by the Girls Gone Wild people. I just figure they're spreading out into every niche market they can find. But the fact that you're seeing ads for gay services on National TV is, I think, significant. While they're debating the legalism of gay marriage and all that, the culture is marching on without them. The issue has already been decided. I think that's important.

It's the same with porn. They can rail and threaten all they want, but the culture's already decided with its pocketbook that porn is here to stay, and even your staunch bible belt states have their adult bookstores doing great business. These politicians who run on family values really can't do anything and they know it.

 

[shereads]

I see those commercials a lot (Miami, duh) and have also wondered how long it will be before a product like this can be marketed in mainstream advertising media in a more direct way.

 

[CharleyH]

Not all gay men have a sense of style. I know one who showed up at his birthday party wearing black bike shorts with white athletic socks and a plaid shirt. All of the other men in the room looked like a GQ fashion layout. Birthday Boy did indeed look like Archie, but an Archie who'd been dressed by Jughead's schizophrenic aunt Bob.

A sweet man; he might benefit from a nice middle-class dating service of good repute and questionable taste.

ROFLOL

 

[tickledkitty]

It's the same with porn. They can rail and threaten all they want, but the culture's already decided with its pocketbook that porn is here to stay, and even your staunch bible belt states have their adult bookstores doing great business. These politicians who run on family values really can't do anything and they know it.

Don't you think, in a way, that the more the politcians and Bible thumpers rail against porn, the more attractive it becomes? Maybe we're all just petulant children, wanting the naughty things they say we can't have.

 

[CharleyH]

I mean, of course, more power to them, but I guess I'd always thought or hoped that gays had a better-developed social network or skills that kept them from having to use some sleazy phone service. Or maybe it's that I thought that, if they did have a phone service, the ad would be so incredibly tasteful and hip that it would be a joy to watch. The guy in this ad looked like Archie from the comic books.

Anyone else seen this?

LOL Gay men and women are so advanced that sex actually equals a good thing to them. I hope Martha Stewart learned the real lesson of a "good thing" in prison. Her food might be less bitter.

 

[3113]

I miss the Laguna beach of the 70's

So why not set the Buick story in 70's Laguna?

 

[3113]

I hope Martha Stewart learned the real lesson of a "good thing" in prison.

You wish. We know you've got the hots for her.

 

[Boxlicker101]

LOL Gay men and women are so advanced that sex actually equals a good thing to them. I hope Martha Stewart learned the real lesson of a "good thing" in prison. Her food might be less bitter.

The idea of a gay dating service is nothing new. Maybe TV ads might be an advance, but sites such as Adult Friend Finder have had "Men Looking for Men" options for as long as I have known about them. Maybe the TV ads are aimed at gay men or bisexuals who are still in the closert and don't want to openly do things, such as hanging out in gay bars. I'm pretty sure that the "gay network" would only reach those who are openly gay.

Besides this, young gay men tend to be extremely agist, considering forty year old men to be over the hill, therefore out of the network. The TV ads might help get older gay men together.