ANDROPHILIA reader comments

This came to the author on the back of a humorous card from someone who recently read Androphilia:

Your book was brazen, visionary, insulting, riveting, boarish, captivating, charming and an excellent read. (May it sell like hotcakes.) [...] Thanks again for upsetting the apple cart.

- Gary from Portland, OR.

This email came from a fellow who wants to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. Jack thinks what he has to say about being a well-known actor and an open homosexual is sadly true:

Thank you for your book. I am a young, single androphile in my 20′s whose job has a lot to do with being in the public eye (I am an actor who has been in a number of very popular films). the gay community has made it almost impossible for someone like me to live an open life, because of the constant fear of having my entire being (not to mention everything i’ve worked for in my career) co-opted by people who would rather drag me into their politicized, sociallly fabricated world than work hard enough to cultivate the skills and sacrifice the things that I have.

I’m constantly frustrated by the inability to meet men who share my views on sexuality. Most of my friends are the straight buddies i’ve had since college, or straight male friends i’ve made since. In no sense of the word am I “gay”, and it’s a series of endless heated discussions in trying to explain that my rejection of gayness does not mean that I am in any way uncomfortable with who I am an an androphile.

I feel as though i could have written your book myself – that’s how closely the sentiments resonate with nearly everything I have ever thought with regards to sexuality.

Thank you for all of your writings.

– Anonymous