What does male sexuality have to do with Martin Brant Novels?
Within the general brotherhood of man, concerning male sexuality, a significant percentage of men live with a closely guarded secret. More common than most people think, these men are dealing a same sex attraction. Most people, other than those they may have shared their secret with, don’t realize how many men have some degree of sexual attraction to other men. Contrary to most moral codes and various religious beliefs, these feelings are quite common and natural. They are feelings that number among the human emotions I deal with through the characters in my novels.
A writer’s first priority, mine included, is to tell a good story. Any writer worth his or her salt wants to create a thoughtfully written story and entertain those who read his or her work. It could be a murder mystery like my latest novel, Copperas Cove, where Jonathon Scott, recently divorced, leaves Pittsburgh to start a new life and finds himself entangled in the bigoted dramas of 1950s Mississippi; or a WWII action/adventure like The Partisans, where two men on an important mission in France stumble upon a bright new future; or a tale of romance like A Song in the Park, where two men at odds with their past cross paths and start facing life’s challenges together. Good stories have characters and characters have personalities, personalities that are very much a part of the whole and make for a more intriguing book. Often the character’s personality can be a story within a story, or it can be the story itself, as in books such as Catcher in the Rye, or my first novel Five Married Men.
Why the element of same sex attraction?
For me it’s a fascination with the vast diversity of human nature. It’s a part of the human race that, for various reasons, many don’t understand. Many of us have been indoctrinated to belief there is something wrong with being attracted to a member of our own sex, which includes the majority of those who are. These are the men who keep secrets, who often feel guilty, who somehow believe there is something wrong with them. Though you may not feel attracted to members of your own sex, you know someone who does. It may be your brother or sister, your neighbor or a colleague at work, your cousin or best friend; it may even be your husband or wife. And chances are you don’t know their secret exists.
Considered a blessing or a curse, or both, the degree of same sex attraction varies from one man to the next; from a mild curiosity that leaves him feeling either guilty or warm inside, to a full blown and exclusive attraction to one’s own sex. Though the same holds true for both men and women, my focus and my novels are about men (and the women in their lives). And for some reason, same sex attractions seem more prevalent in men, though it is also considered by many as more unnatural and less acceptable.
So why would an author that wants to write a compelling mainstream tale include characters with a same sex attraction? Maybe I believe human sexuality in itself is compelling. Maybe, through my novels, I would like to help broaden human understanding. Maybe a part of me wants to say it’s okay.
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Whatever and wherever it’s really very nice be naked in the great outdoors, on a beach, by a river, in a forest, even in the snow, don’t catch cold, weather permitting, and far from preying eyes…..
Some times I wish I could just run around naked outside all day long would love the feel of being free of everything
Luke I have done it. It feels great. For the first 20 to 30 minutes I have a raging hard-on just because it feels so good to be nude in the sun. My roommates don’t understand why I like to do it. They are also afraid of someone seeing and or watching them. I feel that if some one wants to look at my overweight, hairy body then they will, if not they won’t look. I have moved out of that house and to one with just my boyfriend and me, I can’t sun bath nude anymore because the yard does’t have the privacy fence and it is too close to a high school that can see in. Adults will look away from something they don’t want to see, kids not so much.
Where I use to live there was a spot in the yard between the house and the one next door where I could lay out in the hammock but that was it. I have also visited a few nude beaches but it not the se as being able to go for a walk in the wood or where ever and not having everyone watching you and now I live in Texas where the houses are so close to each other that I cant do what I used to love.