They are NOT Gay! They Are Just Boys With Make-up Kissing Each Other. Ask Your Daughter.

Now this is interesting.

I dare you to pop over to youtube and do a search for "emo boys kissing."

Apparently, and don't make too much fun of me if I am the last person on earth to be aware of this, skinny goth straight boys think they can get chicks by kissing...each other.

It all springs from a teen trend toward Emo Boys Kissing, helpfully defined by the Urban Dictionary here.

As the music industry keeps promoting Emo (short for "emotional" natch) music to teens, the angsty little devils have started kissing each other, with apparent abandon, and frequently in front of cameras persumably operated by titilated girlfriends.

In my day, what is called emo was called queer, girls who liked "emo boys" were fag hags, and boys who cried and kissed each other were called all sort of things. It genrally ended badly for the girls.

The really weird thing about the current Emo is that the kissing itself almost seems as/more important than the music, and apparently an important aspect of an Emo identity for boys. And we are farily constantly told that the boys kissing are NOT GAY! They just love each other.

There are litterally dozens of sites with picture, videos, slideshows, etc. of young men like the low rider pictured above kissing, to the squeals of delighted (persumably) girl fans and friends.

Like slash novels and homo-erotic Abercrombie catalogs, the objectification of men as (same) sex turn-ons for heterosexual women continues, much as lesbian sex continues to be a mainstay of traditional straight male porn. And the word, Emo, I think is a word worth following.