In the photograph above, Dominic Santos (one of my current favorite porn actors) offers an expression of erotic amazement as he's being fucked (penetrated) by fellow actor, Angel Santiago.
I began publishing this blog, ReNude Pride, on January 10, 2016. Almost one year ago today. Today's post marks my first anniversary. In honor of this occasion, I'm offering a response to an often asked question: What's with the name, "ReNude Pride?"
Quite simply, it's just a name but it also reflects a revelation that occurred to me in my mid-to-late 20s. I've always been proud of being an openly gay nudist man. Ever since Twin (my identical twin brother, Alex) and I came out to our parents during our teen-age years, my parents have instilled in both of us confidence in our same gender loving attraction and in not being ashamed of who we are.
Twin and I have both been practicing nudists ever since our parents first tried to put clothes on us. The standing joke in our household was that as soon as our parents put clothes on us, we became obsessed with taking them off. This led to conflicts that are still unresolved (in some ways) to this day.
According to Poppa and Mama, our being gay was less of a surprise than the realization that we both preferred to live without the covering of clothes. They could accept our same-sex attraction but even to this day have difficulty with understanding our preference for nudity.
Being of Greek heritage (our parents were born in Greece and all of my brothers and myself have dual-citizenship) for Twin and I this reaction always posed a problem. The ancient Greeks were known for both their nudity and their practice of same-gender intimacy. We weren't able to comprehend why us being nudists caused Poppa and Mama so much grief. Even today, they tolerate our nakedness while completely accepting our gayness. Go figure!
When I became sexually active during my later teenage years, I always assumed the top (dominant; the one who fucks his partner in the ass). I just assumed this to be my sexual position as a man. For years, I never gave this matter much thought and with every man I dated or became intimate with, I just stuck to this plan as it was the one that I knew.
Yes, there were numerous men who wanted to insert their erection (cock, dick, penis) into my tight ass (buttocks). However, I suffered with the stereotypical illusion that being a bottom (the man who gets fucked) was an affectation of effeminacy or weakness. It wasn't who I thought myself as being.
This way of thinking continued until 2004. Then, my entire world turned itself upside-down when I was fucked by a man named Paul. He took my anal virginity and changed my worldview all at one time. He also earned my eternal gratitude for doing so.
Author's Note: To read of my encounter with Paul, check my post, Bottom: My Perspective. Click on the post title and you will be automatically directed there.
Essentially, I've always had same gender loving nudist pride. After Paul "turned me out" (and my ass), I felt all the more reason to be proud of my gay (and newly discovered bottom sexuality) and naked aspects!
Now that I figuratively and literally had an erect penis inside my buttocks, I had no excuse to limit my sexual positions and proceeded to embrace my bottom experience with a hunger for more. And I remain an enthusiastic bottom to this day! I'm not as promiscuous with my buttocks as I once was, as I am now a married man. However, I am almost exclusively a bottom-man for my husband!
Hence, the reason behind the title for this blog: ReNude Pride. The "renude" is a reference to the word, "renewal." "ReNude" is just relating it to my joy in living my life as clothes-free as possible given my current situation. Of course, the "pride" aspect means accepting myself not only as a gay man but also as a proud, naked and gay man who is living free of clothes, guilt and shame. I don't want to live my life any other way!
This blog is an extension of my gay nudist pride. It is my way to encourage other same gender loving men/dual gender loving men (bisexual) to take pride in being a bottom, sexually, and not to feel embarrassed or ashamed about taking a man's penis inside their ass. There is nothing disgusting or wrong about how we are intimate with other men. For far too long we have allowed others to dictate and control our lives. Now is the time that we should all begin to live our lives as we feel and believe we should!
As men who have sex with men, our sexual partners not about morality or confusion about sexual roles. It is about how we love and live. No one is qualified to judge or criticize our emotions. We know who we love and the internal feelings that love generates. We don't need a third party to arbitrate those feelings for us. As long as a relationship is based on mutual love, respect, trust and commitment, it can't be bad, evil or sinful.
That is one of the major reasons that I began composing ReNude Pride. To encourage those of us who assume the bottom position in our sexual relationships to be proud of that aspect of our sexual selves, free from any guilt or shame. After all, someone has to bottom in order for us, as men who have sex with men, to actually have sex. So it might as well be those of us who enjoy having an endowed cock inside of us!
And if we're going to be the one who gets fucked, we may as well fulfill our destiny by being the best bottom there is and take pride in doing so! There's no shame in being penetrated by a big dick! The real shame is being an "ass" and fear admitting it!
Take care and stay proud and bare!
ReNude Pride
