Via Joe My God (“Michael Medved: Lesbian Sex Is Better, Because It Hurts To Take It In The Ass”) and Truth Wins Out (“Michael Medved, Are You Speaking From Personal Experience Here?”), clear evidence that wingnut “film and culture critic” Michael Medved thinks a lot about bungholes. Of men. And how he thinks they are being used.
You have to read this to believe it:
“The politically correct attitude not only insists that heterosexual and homosexual relationships are equivalent, but also erases differences between relationships between two women and relationships between two men. If men and women are profoundly different-and both science and common sense tell us they are- then an all-female couple is even more different from an all-male couple than either homosexual bond differs from a heterosexual union.
“This distinction helps explain the oft-noted quirk in public attitudes that sees stronger opposition and denunciation, in the Old Testament and elsewhere, to a physical relationship between two males and intimacy between two females. A physical connection between a female couple, like a physical connection between man and woman, is based primarily on acts of affection. The most common sexual practice between two men involves an act of aggression —inflicting more pain than pleasure for at least one of the parties. Even decisions by Congress, equating homosexual and heterosexual relationships, or erasing distinctions between the interaction between lesbians on the one hand and gay males on the other, cannot repeal politically incorrect realities.”
I’m just thinking, do you wonder if Mr. Medved liked this film — all those scantily-clad menz (and their bungholes) — and inspired him to focus on man-bum issues?

I should get Medved in touch with Mecklenburg, NC County Commissioner Bill “anal probe/gays are sexual predators” James. They have much to commiserate about.




“The politically correct attitude not only insists that heterosexual and homosexual relationships are equivalent, but also erases differences between relationships between two women and relationships between two men. If men and women are profoundly different-and both science and common sense tell us they are- then an all-female couple is even more different from an all-male couple than either homosexual bond differs from a heterosexual union.
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I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it againThis world is going to be a much better place once all the folks my age die off.
What a maroon!At first I assumed me must be talking about blow-jobs, since in my experience that is by far the most common sexual practice between 2 men, and I thought:
“Maybe you should point out to your wife that biting down is NOT acceptable behaviour when giving head.”
Then I realized he was engaging in his obsession with the butt secks and thought:
“Mickey, Mickey, Mickey, rather than write offensive bigoted pieces like this, why don’t you just ask the Mrs (Mrs #2 BTW) to pretty, pretty please not start out with the Ass Reamer XXL (TM) next time she straps one on and pegs your sorry ass.”
My brain hurts…From so many things being wrong with the sentence:
Oh, really? How would YOU know Michael Medved? The MOST common? Really?
I think it’s hilarious when someone with some kind of disdain for homosexuality has to obsess about anal sex.
Is that really the only thing they think that we do?
Let me whisper a hint in Mr. Medved’s ear:Not if you’re doing it right, Quiz Kid.
HateHate is a strong word, but Medved is among those on the christianist right who I truly hate – hate in that I not only see nothing redeeming about anything that they do say/do, but in that I can’t even envision any circumstance under which I might be able to have a civilized conversation with them. As insane as they are, I even don’t put Beck and Hannity (even Limbaugh, pre-1994 or so)in that category; I truly think that if, somehow, I crossed paths with either of them (at a banquet, on a plane, etc.) I might be able to engage them in conversation for a few minutes without being immediately driven to projectile vomit at them.
But Medved, Throughly Modern Rush, William Donohue, Haley Barbour….
YEPPrecisely! If it really hurts so badly, then why is Minneapolis the land of 10,000 bottoms? :-D
I was on his show onceTo talk about Washington’s Initiative 957. I can assure you that he is even more creepy and obsessive in real life.
AND…I’m willing to be that gay oral sex is WAY more common that anal. Hell, I bet kissing is more common!
See what I mean?Michael Medved – 1948
Rush Limbaugh – 1951
William Donohue – 1947
Haley Barbour – 1947
It seems to me that the most vocal anti-queer haters were born within about 5 years of each other. Maybe it was all the nuclear weapons testing going on during that period that stunted them. Who knows. The good news is that they are that age where they are falling like flies.
He Isn’t Gay?Seriously, I thought he was gay.
Um…I suppose he’s never heard of lube? Or the many gay men who aren’t into anal sex?
It’s always creepy to me every time I hear of these anti-queer activists who are obsessed with how they think gay men have sex. Ugh.
Bunghole delights…This guy is unbelievable. It’s high time people understood that we all have clits and we all have pussies. Half of us have the misfortune of being born with a digestive system that empties through our pussies. I suppose it’s compensation then to have a huge huge huge clit to play with and stick in places that feel good.
Pain? Aggression? What the fuck does this idiot think he’s talking about? The pain, shame, and degradation are all in the fearful mind of the sexual neurotic who refuses to accept the sublime joy of copulation with another body and, perhaps, even a kindred mind and soul. All truth in human affairs begins with open, free, honest erotic play. Penetrating and being penetrated are both fountains of delight. What a jerk.
It’s high time we started spreading the word. Sex is fun. Sex well done is Love and leads to better living and loving.
No, no, no gay sex=buttsexDidn’t you know that? Even my supportive straight friends thought every time I mentioned having sex with a guy, I meant buttsex – until I explained that, for me, there has to be at least one shared meal, preferably dinner, before I’ll put out
Seriously, though, to many straight people sex=insertion of a penis into a lower orifice, male or female. Perhaps that’s why they complain about their sex lives being boring and lacking in foreplay (Hell, I’ve had entire relationships where there was nothing but foreplay, as the straights would have it, and it was some of the hottest fun I’ve had). Add that to the obsession too many fundies have with fear of that penetration, and we get inane comments like Medved’s.
It’s sex, not a prostate exam.More heteronormativity (and even that assumes straight folks don’t do anal.)
Sure, if you never play with your ass, and never have anyone play with your ass, and aren’t interested in having anything go in your ass, if someone sticks something there it hurts.
Um. Duh.
But once again, everyone is allowed an opinion except the actual people involved. It doesn’t hurt when it’s done right between eager people. Not even a little.
Tool.
He’s not stupidI take this as deliberate demonization, with a liberal helping of ick factor. Look at his basic assumption: sex between men is, by definition, aggressive and painful. Therefore, relationships between men, again by definition, cannot be loving or affectionate — the Bam Bam School of male/male sex used to denigrate our emotional relationships with other men.
I don’t doubt for a minute that he’s doing it deliberately and not through ignorance. Anyone who thinks about it for thirty seconds — which his audience will not, since they don’t think much at all — is going to realize that it’s total BS.
Well at least he speaks fondly of lesbian sexWe’re usually left out of the substantial discussions.:)
So you don’t have to click on the link to visit Medved’s website,here are the first two sentences of the column quoted above:
It’s an incredible feat. I’m pretty sure there’s not a single sentence that is factual in this piece.
And since I did click,here’s my favorite snip from the comments:
Barbour pardoned a woman only if she gives up a kidneyto her sister;
Donohue just got approval from the new head of the USSC, Timothy Dolan, and no longer represents the fringe of the Catholic Church but now represents its mainstream.
#imaginationFAILdoes he really think that women, whether straight, lesbian or bi never probe the anus? A penis is not required for that any more than for vaginal penetration.
Well, not all of them.We’ll miss the folks like you!
Medved is an Orthodox Jew, not a ChriatianHe’s a long-time colleague of Rabbi Daniel Lapin, a homophobic nutcase now based here in the Seattle area who was an active part of Ken Hutcherson’s “Mayday for Marriage” rallies several years ago. Medved and Lapin ran the Pacific Jewish Center together for years in CA.
Thank you, Doom!I’ve honestly never understood the bigots’ fascination with anal sex between gay men until now. Of course — they think penile penetration is the only way to have sex! The whole Clinton thing obviously made no impression on me. So, of course, they think the sum total and ultimate goal of all gay male sex is anal sex. Because it’s not sex if the pee-pee isn’t being inserted into some sort of hoo-haa.
My god, these people are even more stupid than I thought.
Common sense dictates that oral sex is the most common sex between men because it’s the easiest one to do — you don’t even have undo your belt, for crying out loud, and you can do it almost anywhere at all. And there are plenty of men with zero interest in anal sex but the man who would say no to oral is almost as rare as a unicorn.
Not to mention this guy obviously knows nothing about technique! Or why male anal sex has been happening since the dawn of time. Does he really think it’s because it’s not any fun? And don’t get me started on what he doesn’t know about lesbians.
He is as utterly hysterical as he is utterly obsessed with men’s anuses. These people may be insane and hateful, but they are good for a laugh now and again. His poor wife!
He seems unaware of the obvious implication of his rant:If Medved think gay male sex is always aggressive, it can only be because he thinks all men are sexually aggressive, period. (The guys on the bottom are clearly not “real men” in his mind.) So if gay sex is always aggressive, so must straight sex always be. Interesting mindset (though I suspect not uncommon among straight men).
I meant to mention that – but you are who you defend…which means he’s as much of a christianist as Donohue, et. al.
Oral Sex?I guess Medved disagrees with oral sex, both homo and heterosexual, since he can’t have it both ways (well….). Either that can be a loving, caring act between a man and a woman (and therefore also between two me), or he disagrees with that. Given that it doesn’t result in procreation, maybe he is against that after all.
Gak – that sounds like I’m trying to get sex advice from Medved! I just threw up in my mouth a little!
exactly!even “aggressive” man-on-man anal sex that doesn’t invovle any sort of that teh lezbian “affection” still should involve lubrication and maybe a bit of pre-penis fingering. if the apparently weak-willed and ridiculously submissive medved is too frightened of his sex partners to tell them this, and they’re jamming it into him dry and without warning, then yes–he should probably lay off the anal sex for a while and stick to giving blowjobs before he permanently injures himself.
Uhm…I read that thing, like, three times and I STILL don’t get what he’s saying. ._.
Upon further review…
Methinks he needs to go read some early-70s radical lesbian feminist tracts about male-female coupling being inherently tantamount to rape.
Clearly, he’s okay with woman-on-woman physical sexual activity so he must be okay with the thought processes of women who engage in woman-on-woman sexual activity, no?
Woman on woman is OKonly if he can watch.
I bet he doesn’t want to watch them think
Good pointThat had occurred to me after I posted my comment above — if penetration is aggression, then vaginal sex is on an equal footing with anal sex.
Q.E.D.
UmmmmI thought Mikey was a Messianic Jew?
Ha!Bet he’s never heard of rimming, either!!
JoanieThat’s because you have the ability to reason and think.
The mindless drones who normally read Mikey’s rantings have been programmed to take whatever someone like him says as gospel and the absolute truth, because he’s a fellow member of the American Taliban.
I seriously think someone who blindly follows folk like Medved is a victim of mind control and is in dire need of a deprogrammer.
Or vibrators.-
Remember, this is also a man who finds rape sexy.In his infamous review of Jodie Foster’s “The Accused,” he wrote “She suffers. She emotes. She gets raped onscreen in a very sexy scene.”
Seriously, Michael? You could watch that pinball-machine scene and get aroused – and you accuse US of perversion?!
Or vote.
Great article, great discussion but……I have to say that I LOLd so hard I spit my coffee out when I read the headline. Brava.
MedvedI try not to speculate on people’s sexuality. I’ve been known to be wrong, and generally speaking it’s not really any of my business. But…everything about Medved just screams “self-loathing, deeply-closeted gay” to me.
More armchair psychologizing: I suspect it’s not unrelated to being an observant Jew who spends all his professional time hanging out with people who think he will spend eternity screaming in unimaginable torment precisely because he’s a Jew (or more accurately, not the exact right kind of Christian), and who, moreover, thinks he deserves to be tortured forever, even if they kinda like him.
While I’m certainly glad to see people of different religions getting along and even being friends, I’ve never understood the Jews that hang out with the apocalyptic right-wing Christian types. A more cynical person might think they cared more about the politics than their religion. Regardless, I don’t think it speaks well of his sense of self-worth.
Michael…Pull your pants up and write something that doesn’t sound like Republican Erotica.
Hahaha!He’s lifted this directly from Varla Jean Merman’s rant on gay people in ‘Girl Stalk.’ (firmly tongue in cheek)
“God hate gay people! That’s why he made anal sex so painful and smelly!”
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