'I chose to be a heterosexual guy because that's what my DNA dictates and my nurture dictates that I am.' 'Probably because of my middle-class, white blue-collar upbringing, I would have never had the opportunity to confront some of my own fears and prejudices had I not been hungry enough to be forced to challenge myself in that way.' And for me, being a young artist and broke in Los Angeles, I was exploring my sexual identity,' he revealed to the newspaper. 'You're a lot more open to experimentation as a young man. He added that, although he ultimately decided he was straight, he was sexually open to trying new things with his own gender. 'Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don't accept people's sexual flavours,' he said. Steele challenges the stereotype of a brainless porn star with his powerful insights into the politics of sex, and he has great stories to tell.Straight shooting: The 42-year-old actor divorced Patricia Arquette in July Steele, a former Morehouse man who later transferred to Syracuse University, tells the author he couldn't get a girlfriend in college because it was the era of the light-skinned, curly-haired black man. I was curious about why the only in-depth interview here is with Lexington Steele, a porn star, but Poulson-Bryant's crisp writing is at its best in this revealing chapter. Poulson-Bryant offers his own interpretations of subculture figures like the "homo thug" (tough, non-flamboyant gay men) and men "on the down low" (allegedly straight men who sometimes have gay sex) and he has interesting things to say about movies like "Mandingo" and "Shaft," and about Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of black men. The same silence over size was present during other sensational trials involving white men like William Kennedy Smith and Robert Chambers. The author points out that in the rape cases of Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson, the size of their penises was sometimes hinted at in some publications, while in the case of the white football player Mark Chmura, who was accused of raping his children's teenage baby sitter, there was no similar national conversation. ("By creating a sexual monster, they'd created something that needed to be controlled, feared.") He connects this anxiety back to the hatred that the lynch mob in mid-1950's Mississippi felt for Emmett Till when he whistled at a white woman. Poulson-Bryant also explores the pervasive racism in the media and the anxiety white men feel about the black penis and what it represents. It's like I'm on the slave block or something." When they pay so much attention to it, it drives me crazy. "I don't like the idea that it makes other guys jealous, black or white.
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"It's like I'm some kind of walking cliché," Simon tells him. Yet Simon considers his appendage more of a burden than a birthright. One of the author's friends, identified as Simon, is described as a heterosexual, athletic, Ivy League graduate who's pretty well endowed. But not all black men regard a big member as a personal trophy. Size apparently matters to both straight and gay men, both black and white, and from Bryant's well-written and thought-provoking book we learn that many men have no problem admitting that they check each other out in locker rooms and bathroom stalls. Later, when they were included, the average length was reported to be closer to 6.1 or 6.2 inches. But he points out that those early surveys didn't include black men.
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Poulson-Bryant decides to check with the experts: are black men's penises bigger than white men's? He cites early versions of the Kinsey Report, which state that the average length of the erect adult penis is roughly 5.9 inches.