Hehehehhh.
More random chin-stroking on Craig's sexuality. Believe it or not, I posted this on Digital Spy:
Craig's sexuality is complex, equal parts intriguing and irritating. He's avoided making any definitive statements, and it's difficult to know why. He makes oblique reference to situations on the outside of the House which mean he can't talk as freely as he'd like to, but I can't help but wonder whether these are largely in his own head. His whispering to Maxwell and Saskia under the sheet, for example, wherein he stated that his parents didn't know he's gay (or did he say bi?) sits rather oddly with his previously complaint, in the first couple of days, that he's not gay but gets fed up with his parents constantly asking if he is.
His response to Sam's "camp" comment was disproportionate too. It's difficult to imagine that someone with Craig's voice and mannerisms working in a profession traditionally choc-a-bloc with gay men would be [i]unused[/i] to people assuming he's other-than-heterosexual. Why the overreaction to "camp", then?
Craig seems quite inexperienced, sexually, and appears happier 'rough-housing' with straight boys than anything else; it's difficult to know whether this is because he desperately wants to be straight himself (or, at least, ignore those elements of 'campness' he despises) or whether it's related to his masochistic streak. He's certainly very keen on the idea of being a hardcore submissive. I think that's partly to do with his need to be babied, looked after, cared for. His idealised sexual experience (as voiced to Maxwell last night) was essentially him being utterly passive, while the other party undressed him, handcuffed him to a bed, blindfolded him, fed him, for fuck's sake. How infantilist is that?
His sexuality's a convoluted one, in the sense that it's apparently more defined by wanting to be a slave/servant/infant/object than anything else. By comparison, the stuff most people think of as 'sex' (sucking, fucking) seem to interest him little if at all. I do think he wants to be a slave etc. to males, though, so in that sense his orientation could be said to be homosexual.
I was initially surprised the hetboys have been so tolerant of Craig. It strikes me that their relationship with him is slightly anachronistic: it's the sort of straight/queer dynamic one might've seen in all-male institutions 50 years ago, rather than today, when the g-word was never explicitly articulated but certain 'feminine' males were treated more protectively - and, of course, used for sex. I've talked to seventysomething gay men, old enough to recall their National Service years with misty-eyed nostalgia, and Craig's behaviour puts me in mind of them... |
