Because Grindr, GuySpy, Scruff and Growlr aren’t enough, Icon Empire Press is rolling out The Gay Travel Guide For Tops And Bottoms ($14.99) the, ahem, tongue-in-cheek primer to finding compatible sex partners across America.
With the tagline “Never Leave Your Friend’s Behind,” the book is a followup to a similar guide reviewing more than a dozen countries overseas. “We want to do to gay travel what Fifty Shades of Grey did to erotica, which is revolutionize the way people think,” says Author Drew Blancs. (We’re guessing that’s a pseudonym.)
Like a queer Lewis and Clark, the guide’s two narrators (one top and one bottom, of course) make their way across some 15 states, rating the local pitchers and catchers on a five-point scale. Sounds like a lot of hard work.
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Mark
Ha ha ha! The title of this book makes me want to read it. We need more bottoms in Atlanta!
Kay
This looks great. And if yer looking for bottoms come up to Seattle! We need more tops!
Alex
The LGBT Community is like tupperware to many bottoms and all the tops are missing.
raisedsouth
Alot of Tops in the South East, we need more attractive bottoms, but I would rather live up in the West anyway like Oregon or Washington to be closer to the Grimm set!!!
noticed this too
Interesting to hear about tops in the southeast. Anecdotal observations: NYC is a good place if you want tops. Boston: slightly more tops. Calif: mostly bottoms w/the exception for some reason of San Diego which has more tops. The entire Midwest: bottoms bottoms everywhere, except for Chicago which is much more even. (Your own results may vary!)
Carlos
Mark I have a friend in Atlanta who is a top (an actual top and one who’s never been f#%d and not one of those “tops” who is really a “bottom” or “versatile”) and he told me how there are a lot of bottoms in ATL and how most men there are bottoms.
stevoj
@Mark: you canNOT be referring to Atlanta, Georgia #dead
gawd that’s a good one
jj
Id have to say LA definitely has the most bottoms per capita. In vancouver where i live there are alot of young bottoms but there arent many young tops so you always get these old pervs hitting on you…
anthony
Anyone who self labels are 100% top or bottom is just plain boring in bed…
Cal
I just read through this book. The comments from this post were a lot more useful than the stuff put in the “book”. The comments from the tops & bottoms were neither useful or funny (which I suspect they were meant to be).
Having said that, there are way too many tops in LA. We need more bottoms!
J Stratford
These 100% bottoms or 100% tops have to be really good or they wont satisfy me
Halston
I don’t know about all this but I do know in my kitchen cabinet that I have more bottoms than I do tops. And I always wonder what happened to all my tops and it is such a dilemma for me when I want to keep things fresh in the fridge, so I have to use saran wrap.
Halston
I forgot to ask, but do you guys have the same problem in your city and in your kitchen?
MoJo
@anthony:
Some dudes Just don’t have prostate sensitivity. We were Born This Way, as some bitches like to sing…
anthony
@MoJo: to me its just like oral sex. Guys are better at it than girls because they know the process and the equipment from both sides. Guys that wont allow themselves to be fucked just arent as good givers as guys who do…
Buck
Anthony-Not every bisexual or gay man is even into anal sex. I know guys who are tops who did try receptive anal sex either with a penis, fingers, or a small toy once or a few times and they found out it was not for them.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
i hate this objectifying taxonomy of gay men into tops or bottoms as if these labels described some actual essentialist quality of them with connotations of how manly/dominant or femme/submissive they are. are we STILL doing this in 2012?
even with modifications such as “power bottom” it still buttresses (sorry) the notion of the “standard” bottom being submissive.
okay, so if you fall between two stools (ahem) i guess that makes you a “versatile”, but what if you tick neither box and just not into anal in any way? where is the handy one word profile-friendly tag for that “type”?
is they’re a word like top or bottom or versatile, for gay and bi men who, while not necessarily disgusted, are just not into it?
if there is not such a word can somebody invent it and soon. maybe hold a competition — fun for all the family.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID:
typo:
is “there” a word…
Dwayne
@Alex: Omg that’s too funny, lol. But sadly true
noticed this too
From these comments we’ve learned:
#8 – Id have to say LA definitely has the most bottoms per capita.
#10 – there are way too many tops in LA. We need more bottoms!
And Atlanta is either full of tops (#1 &4) or maybe it isn’t (#6).
I doubt this book has any “hard data” (pun intended) although it may be funny. A cute bottom with the right attitude, or a hunky top with the right attitude, can make a lot of “versatile” types curious to try something out of their usual. But that throws off any *real* sense of how many ____’s are out there, so it becomes subjective depending on your point of view.
Also some people are never satisfied – well you know that’s usually the bottoms – so there’s NEVER enough tops for them!
JameyBoy
@Mark: Wow, I didn’t know that. I am packing up my bags right now! lol.
JameyBoy
@Alex: Sounds like Houston all day long.
danyarvis
@noticed this too: Wow need have vacation in NYC