Manhunt is the devil. It is destoying all of gay culture as we know it--though maybe that's a good thing.

this story illustrates why the old one-night-stand hookups in a bar were the height of civility and class. Bring 'em back!

And besides, the owners of Manhunt support republican candidates. I've cancelled my account.

A bar might be dimly lit and alcohol may be lowering my expectations -- at least I know who I'm cruising and they know me in 3D right up front and in person.

I hate one night stands, no passion, no love, just a fuck... but I have to admit I sometimes fall into the trap of temptation but I much more prefer to get to know someone for several months before even offering my private parts to someone.

Good read though!

The Hunt For Men in October...sounds like a killer romantic comedy...perhaps he should consider pitching it as a screenplay, or maybe his next book? Would love to read more after Side Step Me...

This isn't a Manhunt story, but my own horror tale of the early (think 1990s) tale of internet dating. Yes, I had a cup of coffee with the guy who was using an online photo of himself taking at least 15 years earlier ("What's the big deal," he said. "I'm still good looking." He wasn't, but c'est la vie). I had a latte with the young guy with one cockeyed eyeball and the ill-fitting toupee as thick and bushy as a mohair Daniel Boone cap. ("I'm a Trekkie," he told me right before I excused myself to go the bathroom and snuck out the back door). There was the cappuccino with the over-40 man who still lived with his mother and called her "Mommy." (Shades of Norman Bates!)and an iced tea with the lunatic who claimed to be a Native American ("I'm a descendent of Pocahantas!") AND a Martian! (He was a Trekkie too, natch).
How I miss the simpler, more natural days of the St. Mark's Baths.

Low gay culture is too twisted to deserve a comment. Suffice to say: try looking at the connection between internalized homophobia, objectification and sexualization of your brothers, and the spread of aids.

I am soooo out of it. I was corrected by a bartender and almost laughed out of Hell's Kitchen because I was under the obsolete impression that Craigslist was the hookup apparatus. This explains why there are so many straight women hanging around gay bars annoying us old queens who like a touch of sluttiness in the bar scene; they just chattily hang out with their fag friends who don't go to bars to get laid anymore. It also explains why so many younger guys have absolutely no queer social skills anymore since they don't have to know how to talk to each other and just arrange for hookups with no teasing, flirting, or any personality facet that may include actually be interesting to other gay men.

Thanks for all the great comments guys, yeah, Manhunt is a social networking site, that I constantly try to wrap my mind around. I would love to be hit on, in a bar, go on an actual date.

I'm not shy by any means, but when you can barely make eye contact with a guy, in a bar, then they see you online and tell you, they were to shy to return your eye contact.

There's something wrong!

Have you seen the horror of all horrors? Gay guys dancing with girls in gay bars! Shoudn't that freaky stuff be allowed only in straight bars? But seriously, aren't gay clubs for us so we can dance freely with each other? These days many of the fags just dance with their hags, and not even with the ones dressed to look like one. Looks to me like they are ashamed to be gay even inside a gay place. How sad :(

FIRST OF ALL I TOUGHT IT WAS INTERESTING FOR A WHILE
IT WAS LIKE WATCHING PORN , TRUTH IS THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO TO OUT THERE. AS WE KNOW BARS ARE FULL OF WOMEN AND THE MEET CHANCES ARE LONG GONE .
BUT EVERY HERE AND THERE IT WAS ENTERTAINING .
BUT LETS FACE IT IS ALL ABOUT HOE MUCH MONEY THEY
CAN POCKET .
THERE IS NO INTEREST FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND I HAVE NOT HEARD OF MANHUNT HELPING IN OUR SOCIETY .
TROWING PARTIES TO BENEFIT THEMSELVES.
TO PAY TO SEE FAKE PICTURES AND BE PUSHED TO LIMITATIONS I RATHER JUST BUY A MAGAZINE .
OHHH YES YOU CAN BLOCK UP TO ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE NOW . WOW A GREAT WAY TO PROMOTE FRIENDSHIPS IN OUR COMMUNITY .
MANHUNT SUCKS BIG TIME !!!
BUT THERE IS A LOT OF FOOLS OUT THERE STILL WILLING TO SUPPORT IT !!!!

Manhunt is turning into more of a meat market GREEEED machine by the day.

I dared complain about their negative marketing schemes pressuring people into giving their credit card #,

and they chaged my profile to one word and locked me out of it:

"pathetic"

very mature, very professional!