If you’re an overbearing hairy vers Glee fan with a receding hairline, you’re in luck! Turns out you’ve got above-average chances of getting that second date with Looking ingenue Jonathan Groff.
You’re on your own getting the first date though — if Andy Cohen is to be believed (and in this case we certainly don’t believe him), Groff can’t even go grocery shopping without an armored car and security detail.
Jonathan’s answers on a recent segment of Watch What Happens Live do come off as pretty genuine, though.
So much so that after he plays a game of “Tun on/Turn off,” fellow guest Julianne Moore tells Andy, “I like him, he’s complicated.”
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Here’s how he responded to the series of characteristics in a man:
Very hairy: ‘Turn on’
Sex on the first date: ‘Absolutely’
Someone who is only a power bottom: ‘No, you’ve got to be versatile.’
Someone who dislikes his bestie Lea Michele: ‘Definitely a turn off.’
A Broadway queen: ‘Borderline’
Someone who’s in the closet: ‘Turn off.’
Balding: ‘ Turn on’
Gym rat: ‘Turn off’
Not interested in marriage: ‘Turn off’
Mama’s boy: ‘Turn off’
Order for him at a restaurant: ‘Turn on’
Here’s the segment:
h/t GayStarNews
iban4yesu
I need an anti Rogaine pronto ! Lol
AtticusBennett
YAY! LOL
I’ve never those who choose to frown and look down on those who have sex on a first date. Sex is important. I’ve done the other route – know what it meant? money wasted on six dinner dates before i found out we were totally and utterly sexually incompatible.
i’ve had hookups that became life-long friendships. i’ve had hookups that resulted in boyfriends. this spring i’ll be at the wedding of a best friend to his partner. their anniversary? they count their first manhunt hookup as the date.
don’t be afraid of your expressions of sexuality!
Ladbrook
Yeah, I’ pretty much pro-sex no matter what date it is: 1st, 12th, 87th… whatever. And let’s be honest – most gay men have sex on the first date (which is often the only date). I’m just glad that an out/gay celebrity acknowledged it. Now can we all stop pretending that this is somehow shocking?
DDstar1me
Awww…he is so cute. He would be friend zoned. I won’t want to loose him. He seems like a lot of fun and oh the gossiping we would do lol.
IcarusD
@AtticusBennett: Agreed. I have friends who met at a sex club. When the bottom decided that the other was the smoothest top he had ever been with, they decided to exchange names. That was in 1993; they have now lived (and owned homes) together for over 20 years, legally married since 2008. Not saying everyone will meet their future husband in a bathhouse or sex club, but I wouldn’t advise ruling out the possibility, either.
When I was first coming out, I went on a few dates with this absolutely gorgeous guy. I held out on sex because I wanted us to be boyfriends first. Never happened. One of my biggest regrets was not sleeping with him when I could have. We wouldn’t have ended up boyfriends either way, but at least I would have had a chance to sleep with him.
AtticusBennett
no joke – i’ve met a large handful of my best friends in the entire world from a gay website that specialized in nude dudes.
also, at a safe-mandatory sexual party in brooklyn. yup. #noshame
GQ83
Well its no wonder why I’m still single haha, seems as tho dating and wanting to get to know the person outside of sex is a turn off. As for sex on the first date, If that’s the case why does there even need to be a date? why not just Fuck and get it over with so I can go about my business. Just Sayin 🙂
Cam
@GQ83:
If you don’t know the difference between quick anonymous sex and great sex after an awesome date, then I feel bad for you! 😉
smittoons
Andy Cohen: Turn Off.
Scribe38
I prefer to wait, at least two or three dates. I like knowing a dude a bit and it keeps me interested (love the butterflies to last a while). Dudes who won’t wait that long for me aren’t worth it. Nothing worse for me than banging a dude and discovering he’s crazy, GOP/Jesus freak, or a total jackass. By the third date their true self has slipped out a bit.
GQ83
@Cam: I know the difference so you don’t have to feel bad for me haha. I was just saying that I can go on a awesome date and not have sex and be completely fine with it. seems as tho for a lot of folks sex is expected on that awesome date.
vive
@IcarusD, yeah, I totally have to have sex on the first date. You can never trust your eyes – almost all the Men’s Fitness types I’ve had (with one or two exceptions) were complete duds in bed, while the best sex I ever had was with a little baby bear I hooked up with kinda accidentally.
Cam
@GQ83: I didn’t get that he was saying you had to have it, merely that he was not against it.
GQ83
@Cam: I feel you, I’m not against it either. I’m at work so I can’t watch the video so I’m just going off of what I’m reading. I do prefer to get to know the dude before sex tho….if I can help it. haha
Cam
@GQ83: I agree, he was kind of adament about it. lol
enlightenone
@AtticusBennett: “…don’t be afraid of your expressions of sexuality!”
Not having sex on a first date with a stranger is not fear. There are actually gay teens and adults because of their values would not have sex on a first date and still express their sexuality which I might add is how the date came to be in the first place!
GQ83
@Cam: 🙂
enlightenone
@Ladbrook: “…(which is often the only date)..”
Speak for yourself! Though I can understand your desperation and why it would be true FOR YOU with that point-of-view.
enlightenone
@Scribe38: Someone with a clue! Third date sex was hot; you still remember it; don’t you?
Alan down in Florida
Ah the eternal gay conundrum. Not having sex on the first date and getting dumped because you wouldn’t put out or putting out and getting dumped because you did. ‘Tis a puzzlement.
Larry
Jonathan you need to move to Cincinnati and look me up!!
Motard
The fact that Julianne Moore is tooootally channeling Drew Barrymore.
Definite turn on..
Scribe38
@enlightenone: Baby it was worth every rug burn.
DistingueTraces
What is it with ordering for people at restaurants?
Is this why my love life is so dull? I don’t know how to work a menu?
Lazycrockett
Yeah the ordering at a restaurant seems weird to me. I’ve never even thought bout ordering for someone else and I would be WTH if someone did it to me.
Lazycrockett
Just to add, I was in the service industry for years and I don’t recall anyone else, gay straight or any combo, every ordering for the other person as I was waiting on them.
odawg
@smittoons: LOL!
vive
@DistingueTraces: “What is it with ordering for people at restaurants?”
I would personally find it offensive, though I understand that for people who are into the dom-sub, daddy-son, or gold-digger dynamic it could be a turn-on.
RealBlast3
While I think he’s adorable and hot, short hair is not very flattering for him and definitely ages him. He looked his best with his Spring Awakening shag and bangs covering his forehead.
Only saying. Nothing wrong with looking in your 40s when you’re in your 30s either if that’s what you’re going for!
Cee
Looking, the HBO TV Series, turn off.
I keep watching hoping that it’ll get better, but unlike the campaign it doesn’t get better.
AtticusBennett
@Scribe38: do what i do – find out that stuff BEFORE the first date, or hookup. i don’t bone republicans. but i also don’t wait more than an HOUR into talking with a guy to find out who he really is.
AtticusBennett
@enlightenone:
“values”? those are learned things. this is not news. if you think it’s not a “good value” to have sex on a first date – congrats, you have swallowed someone else’s taught idea of morality. i’m not saying you HAVE to bone on a first date, but when you pass it off as your “values” you’re gonna get an eye-roll from every person, gay or straight, who lives life on their own terms, not the terms passed on to them from the Values Folks.
enlightenone
@AtticusBennett: “…values”?…you have swallowed someone else’s taught idea of morality. i’m not saying you HAVE to bone on a first date, but when you pass it off as your “values” you’re gonna get an eye-roll from every person, gay or straight, who lives life on their own terms, not the terms passed on to them from the Values Folks.”
There is so much to unpack here that I will take a pass and just say that you must have been on the rag when you commented!
And now for a piece of unsolicited advice that you will not take since you live life on your own terms, before you take off in your car, make sure the brakes, gas, and shifting gears work.
Scribe38
@AtticusBennett: People straight up lie about who they are sometimes. For example met a dude online who was a teacher, but he left out that he was also a priest and would never be able to have a real relationship. On the second date a person from his church came up and called him “Father”. I sat there shocked as the parishioner interrupted my date chatting about church business. Lol. I was soooo happy I hadn’t banged him. I don’t judge people for not waiting, but I’ve run into enough Crazy/awkward situations were now I chose to wait a bit before getting naked.
Clark35
Yes and I’m sure AtticusBennett takes Truvada and has STDs.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@Alan down in Florida:
100% agree……Its a tough call, because if I really like the guy and I think there is a possiblity of a future the hopeless romantic in me prefers to wait. However if I think that this is a one time deal, the horny sexual being in me wants to jump his bones……………..
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
BTW: as to “receding hairlines” um, sorry no Jonathan…………Lotta guys can pull off the shaved head look but the road to that is pretty bumpy……
I saw my older brother after not seeing him for over a year and saw waaaaay too much chrome on his dome………..
I ran real darn quick like to drug store and took a minoxidol bath!!
Here is a tip that many of you will be thanking me for decades to come. You don’t have to spend the $40-50 per month for the the actual brand name. You can get generic version at Target and the cost is $20.00 for a 3 month supply. Don’t know if I was destined to follow my Bro, but 3 years later and nothing has changed up there……….
Charlie in Charge
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Preach! Minoxodil + Finastride is a wonderful, wonderful thing. That said, if you do decide you look good sans hair, then more power to you.
Also Team Vers all the way! The sex is twice as long!
vive
@Charlie in Charge: “The sex is twice as long!”
Not really. You can pretty much make any kind of sex last as long as you like.
vive
@RealBlast3: “While I think he’s adorable and hot, short hair is not very flattering for him and definitely ages him. He looked his best with his Spring Awakening shag and bangs covering his forehead.”
I only agree in that I don’t like his primped hairstyle either. Nothing worse than a guy with a hairsprayed cake on his head.
Random
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: I used minoxidil (generic) for quite a while and it did nothing for me. Another friend has been using branded Rogaine religiously for at least 10 years, and yet has less hair than me. I can’t help but wonder whether the guys who claim it works for them, are the ones who would’ve probably kept their hair anyway; as far as siblings go, it doesn’t follow automatically, that if one goes bald, the other will too.
Bully2
I used Rogaine for many years in my 20s, to no avail. When Matt Lauer finally buzzed his head, I know it was OK, so I embraced it. Ironically, like Groff, I find buzzed or balding men VERY SEXY! For some reason, I just didn’t like it on myself — glad i got over that.
I’m all for sex on the first date, IF it feels right. It shouldn’t be forced or obligatory, it should be natural and HOT – otherwise, wait. But we’re guys, how often do we really wait, I mean seriously.