{"id":95249,"date":"2026-07-05T23:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95249"},"modified":"2026-07-05T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:32:09","slug":"sleeping-with-straight-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/07\/05\/sleeping-with-straight-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping With Straight Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time <strong>Colton Underwood <\/strong>makes a revelation, I like him just a little bit less.&nbsp; He all but admits how calculated his \u201ccoming out process\u201d was (a process that conveniently happened after cashing checks from three seasons wooing women on various <strong><em>Bachelor<\/em><\/strong> programs).&nbsp; \u201cTo protect myself, I would only hook up with married straight men.\u201d&nbsp; OK, let me stop right there \u2013 no \u201cmarried straight men\u201d are hooking up with guys.&nbsp; A friend of mine says he only hooks up with straight guys that want blow jobs.&nbsp; If they want blow jobs from other guys, they may not be gay, but they\u2019re certainly not straight.&nbsp; Colton clarifies: \u201cWhen I was in the closet, the only time I would ever hook up with men was if they were married because they have more to lose than I did.\u201d&nbsp; What he\u2019s actually saying is he only hooked up with other closeted (or questioning) men.&nbsp; He adds, \u201cSo, if they tried to, you know, ruin my career and my life for football, they had a whole family that they\u2019d be risking as well.&nbsp; It\u2019s a messed-up thing to think through.\u201d&nbsp; Yes, it\u2019s messed up.&nbsp; Colton was willing to ruin someone else\u2019s life if push came to shove.&nbsp; He admits, \u201cIt was just like a way to protect myself.&nbsp; I mean, looking back on it now, I wish I would have been a little bit more vulnerable about just talking about my struggle with my sexuality.&nbsp; I think there could have been something just interesting in that conversation.\u201d&nbsp; It certainly would have been a helluva lot more interesting than this one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time Colton Underwood makes a revelation, I like him just a little bit less.&nbsp; He all but admits how calculated his \u201ccoming out process\u201d was (a process that conveniently happened after cashing checks from three seasons wooing women on various Bachelor programs).&nbsp; \u201cTo protect myself, I would only hook up with married straight men.\u201d&nbsp;<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95249","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\/95249","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=95249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95250,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95249\/revisions\/95250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}