I can cook for you, clean for you, blow you, and not be allowed to mouth off about it? 40 years ago that was called being a wife.

Oh white straight guys, the world is your oyster.

Make it 75/25 on the rent split and you have a deal.

Whatever, I guess he is a little entitled sounding and a little like he wants a gay roomate to be in his service a little bit (in addition to being his friend it sounds like?). But something tells me that would make a lot of guys happy. If he wants it and people want to do it, who cares?

Methinks the word straight should have been in quotes.

@ 2 Why does white matter, esp here in Seattle?

And isn't this also something of a sign of progress? This type of thing seems like an inevitable result of eroding homophobia and stigma.

@ 6 White is just one more source of privlidge (in addition to being straight and a male).

"str8 dude seeks stereotype"

The article links to pretty great uncensored pic.

I have absolutely zero problem with this dude. In fact, I applaud him.

"But can promise you, your the only dude getting my loads."

Aww....

I dont get chastising him for not considering his own sexuality more in how he defines his sexuality. I get chastising him for being so brazen in wanting a houseboy and advertising on the internet for one.

"Let you massage me", oh good.

@5: That may be, but his headline was more likely to draw hits than the more honest "Semi-literate closet case seeks concubine."

On the one hand, he is up-front about the deal he is proposing, and that might fit nicely for some guys. Good luck to him and his future roomies.

On the other hand, he is looking for a guy with whom to live, hang out, work out, have beers, have physical contact and get his cock sucked. Last I checked, that is called a boyfriend. The fact that he doesn't want to blow his roomie doesn't make him str8; it makes him a pillow queen.

A straight male is legally prohibited from saying, "But can promise you, your the only dude getting my loads," to another man. I looked it up.

Hey, at least he's completely straightforward about what he wants. People can take it or leave it. Much better than moving in with, for example, a closet homophobe who tells you it's cool upfront but then treats you like shit.

I bet I know a lot of guys who would be interested. If I was neat and tidy, at one point in my life I might be up for it, too.

That said, while I totally believe that a straight guy could have a same-sex encounter (especially an unplanned one) and still be straight, this guy strikes me as at least a little bi.

Can't win if you don't play, right?

@15: HA!

What's wrong with advertising for a little privilege play as long as it's all up front and consensual?

This is why "straight chaser" needs to be an entirely separate orientation.

In one respect, he's providing a service by removing one person who might dangerously appear (falsely) to be made of good potential boyfriend material to some innocent and non-self-loathing same-sexer.

On the other hand, someone who thinks in such insulting stereotypes does not deserve the good luck he is being wished if there anything the least sincere about the wishing. Honest is one thing, indiscriminately demeaning is something else.

I appear to be the first to notice that the heading is

"St8 looking for gay roommate"

As his generous offer makes no mention of size, I'll guess Delaware.

As Mr Ophian has already invoked Rule 42, that will do for now.

This guy is probably a douche in real life, but you are getting exactly what it says on the tin. I think I would rather live in a cardboard box than with anyone other than my partner, but this guy is up front and nobody is forcing you to live there.

Ven @2, I am very disappointed in you, sir. If any dude deserved a bi-centric treatment this month, surely it is Mr.Delaware here!

@26: to @24, obvs.

the guy doesn't know "your" from "you're" and self-identifies as a writer/editor?!?

@ 28 - Is it possible you have confused the blogger who caught the screenshot and posted it (Kenneth M. Walsh, who does indeed self-identify as a writer/editor) with the person who posted the Craigslist add?

I ask this honestly to any gay men out there: Approximately how long could this situation work out in reality?

Perhaps the gay roommate could teach the straight guy grammar and spelling because it was terrible. Dumb is never attractive.

And I want to be a fly on the wall when the straight guy brings home a girl and the gay roommate throws a hissy fit about it. I'd also love to see the look on the straight guy's face when he learns that the gay roommate has blabbed about all the dick sucking to his friends.

This straight guy is dumb as a post. No wonder he doesn't have a woman to live with.

Isn't love wonderful?,

Isn't love wonderful?

@9:
Qualify your use of the word "great."

He is describing all the boyfriends I had before 30! Maybe I was straight and just didn't realize it.

Where do I find a gay roommate to clean my house, decorate the living room and cook? He wouldn't even have to suck my dick since I don't have one. Oh, I guess that last one is supposed to be a perk.

@30: Depends on the gay man's sense of self-worth- or lack thereof.

@7, @14, @25: Words of wisdom.

Mr O - I didn't think he deserved the compliment; it was a deliberate exclusion. But, if you like:

[BJ] The real question raised by this advertisement is: How do we create a society full of bi-chasers? After all, however stereotypically this advertiser thinks, Mr Savage Himself {note to Ms Eirene - it's much better with a capitalized H, and you are welcome to share the use of the same} confirms that there is a market for this sort of thing. Why should straight men get to enjoy the slavish devotion of chasers to the point of free cooking, cleaning and interiour decoration simply because they don't enjoy it? And why should this poor bi man have to pose as straight in order to enjoy such an advantageous relationship? Bi men are much better at being serviced by chasers, too - there is a much lower failure rate, and they can ramble on about all the {demeaning reference to women deleted} in their lives just as well as straight men so that the chasers would never notice the difference. It must be an image problem. An S/G servicing directly reduces the perceived superiourity of the S over the G due to the natural reduction of committing a G action. Now, we all know that a B/G interaction does not reduce the genuine superiourity of the more highly evolved B. What is needed here is a campaign to convince gullible Gs (only the ones with exceptional skills at cooking, cleaning and interiour decoration, of course) that some small part of superiourity will rub off. But it has to be a small and superficial part, which will make creating bi-chasers a tough sell. Sounds like a job for Brian Kinney.

@40: Wrong consonants. If two men are happy to play out a fairly lowball D/S fantasy then WTF business is it of ours how they frame it?

I dunno, I think this sounds really hot. If I were a guy I wouldn't actually do it, but I can definitely see why someone would.

@40, I'm not sure this guy is really bi. I mean if he is ok with accepting oral from guys in a pinch, or even enjoys occasional sex with guys, but isn't actually attracted to guys, is he really bi? In my opinion bi means you can have feelings of romantic attachement to either sex. I think a lot of people call themselves bi, but they are really just sexually flexible--they are only romantically interested in one sex.

Messrs Seeker/Brent - It is still July, at least on my calendar, and remember, I wasn't even going to give this one the Bicentric July treatment until Mr Ophian mentioned it.

Mr Seeker - As I said, Honest is one thing. If the advertiser had framed this as What He Wanted (as in: SM seeks GM roomie who also happens to be a chaser into being treated demeaningly), I'd probably give it the old FTWL... and be done with it.

There is a difference between saying he'd like a gay roomie who'd enjoy picking up after him and saying that All Teh Gayz are into Doing Straights' Laundry.

Ditto on enjoying cooking for him and ATG loving being unpaid chefs for a Straight Gourmand.

Ditto on giving a roomie a very free hand on decorating as opposed to thinking that ATG will call his gay roomie so lucky for having the most important decoration of all - his studly straight self - at hand.

Ditto on being flexible enough to accept a certain low level of attention IF A ROOMIE FELT SO INCLINED and betraying the privilege-laden belief that every flipping gay man in existence would jump through forty-two hoops for the chance to service straight D* because of course that's the gay version of the Holy Grail.

There is a way to write such an advertisement in a respectful manner so that it conveys something like, "Some gay men like X/Y/Z. If you'd like this arrangement, get in touch." This person reminds me of Mr von Bulow's companion in Reversal of Fortune telling Mr Dershowitz that engaging him had been her idea. "Get the Jew, I told him."

And I haven't even gone into his biphobia, which does not require the BJ perspective to see and identify.

@44: Word.

What "professional" can get by with incorrect usage of "your" and "you're."

@46: The guy who wrote the ad is not the professional, the guy who took the screen grab of the ad (Kenneth in the 212) is. I hate it when people screw up your (possessive) with the you're (declarative contraction). Same thing with there and their.

Yours,
Christopher Lee

You know, there is a hot fantasy element to his ad. A kind of NSA roommate situation sounds kind of exciting. Blowing this otherwise straight guy and letting it be our little secret. Also kinda hot.

Where it gets less hot: The assumption that, as gay men, we will happily cook, clean, and decorate for him. Because his understanding of gay men is limited to bad romantic comedies where gay people only exist to improve the lives of straight people.

... and then reaches douchebag level: The assumption that he's doing a gay man some kind of huge favor by RECEIVING blow jobs. Um, thank you for letting me blow you occasionally while you're drunk. Because I'm so desperately and hopelessly cock starved that without sometimes being able to orally pleasure a complete narcissist, I'd die!

I'd hit that in a New York minute.