Gay chat rooms may be a thing of the past, but technological advancement isn’t always a good thing.
I remember my first gay chat room. I was probably 17 or so, over at my friend Chris’s trailer, and together we snuck onto a Gay.com chat room to see if there were any other homos around. There were a few random older, larger gentlemen willing to chat, and one semi-attractive older guy that ended up taking us on a boat and jerking off with me. It was a beautiful time. A simpler time.
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Nowadays, gay guys meet by clicking on a photo, sending a dick pic, sharing a location, and then getting it on. The nuance of meeting someone online, and charming them with your personality is almost entirely gone because it’s so easy to meet a barrage of people at any given hour of the day. So with that in mind, here are five things I miss about gay chat rooms.
-The sound of the Internet, on dial up, trying desperately to create a ridiculously slow connection so you may have the possible chance of meeting someone else who is gay. Talk about anticipation!
-In the past, people spent time getting to know each other before they met. It was exciting to talk to someone and find out all about them before meeting them face to face, or face to dick, or whatever clever combination we homos can come up with.
-A/S/L (age, sex, location) is a lot less offensive than some of the recent terminology, such as BB? (bareback), Hung? (how big is your dick),420? (do you have weed), and Looking (meaning I just want sex, now, so cut the chit-chat).
-The beautiful moment when you meet someone you like, have emailed a few photos back and forth, and decide to exchange AIM addresses so you can chat long into the night about your hopes, dreams, and butthole fantasies.
-The way that bitchy homos would get into fights with each other, and everyone else could play voyeur and chime in, and gang up, and cyber-bully each other. Nowadays cyber-bullying is a serious thing, but back in the day it was all in good fun.
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