{"id":5170,"date":"2019-07-15T02:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T09:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2019-07-15T02:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T09:31:34","slug":"two-gay-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/two-gay-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Gay Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of interesting priest stories came across my desk.&nbsp; And if you know anything about me, I\u2019m always interested in priests coming.&nbsp; First we heard about&nbsp;<strong>Father Pierre Valkering<\/strong>, who is a Catholic priest in Amsterdam.&nbsp; The controversy began when he published a memoir in which he talked about his past as a sexually active gay man.&nbsp; Obviously not an Earth-shattering revelation when it comes to Catholic priests.&nbsp; He spoke openly about going to gay sex clubs \u2013 in particular, \u201cdark rooms\u201d.&nbsp; Then during his priest days, he became addicted to gay porn.&nbsp; Despite all of this being in the past, the&nbsp;<em>Amsterdam Peace Church&nbsp;<\/em>dumped him.&nbsp; Father Pierre wasn\u2019t surprised.&nbsp; \u201cIt is clear that with this book I am going on particularly slippery ice, or even a minefield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should Pierre be considering a change of profession, he may want to consider becoming a gay porn actor.&nbsp; Scoff if you must, but he wouldn\u2019t be the first ex-priest to make this transition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Norm Self&nbsp;<\/strong>has appeared in four gay porn films since his retirement in 2017.&nbsp; Oh, did I neglect to mention that he\u2019s 85 years old?&nbsp; I think he\u2019s outlived a cougar and could possibly be considered a tyrannosaurus rex!&nbsp; He went public about his vocation in the documentary,&nbsp;<strong><em>On The Game: The Sex Business<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; He came to the decision pretty matter-of-factly.&nbsp; \u201cWe are going to have sex anyway, so why not make it a liberating and bonding experience instead of hiding it away in the shadows?\u201d&nbsp; While I applaud the sentiment, I hope you\u2019ll forgive me if I stop short of fully researching this story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/colorbar1.gif\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of interesting priest stories came across my desk.&nbsp; And if you know anything about me, I\u2019m always interested in priests coming.&nbsp; First we heard about&nbsp;Father Pierre Valkering, who is a Catholic priest in Amsterdam.&nbsp; The controversy began when he published a memoir in which he talked about his past as a sexually active<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5171,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/5171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}