Hey hey hey...what can't it be that kind of board? Oh wait...I've seen
Tom's secret honeymoon website. It's awesome.

I don't think I'd want to see anyone I'm friends with (regardless of orientation)having sex.  I maybe a prude but I don't know how I could look at them the same way again.

 I have a crush on Tom, so it's a bit different. Tom's the
muscle built, comic collecting, novel reading, thespian man I've always dreamt about...sigh...

Well I can understand that I suppose! I can think of some girls I knew in my younger days I wouldn't mind seeing, if you know what I mean.  And Tom is a great guy so I can see how you'd have a crush on him -- just don't tell Eric. 

Hagerman doesn't like them pale.  He likes them almost translucent! <g>

I've seen friends having sex, too -- and participated!  There's a place where the gay world is a little different than the straight world.  Attitudes about sex are VERY different, I think. 

I'm going to go out on a bit of a controversial limb here and claim that women tend to be more... intimate regarding sex than men -- at least, gay men.  Although not necessarily a fan of the "open" relationship, many, many gay couples thrive on the definition. 

Michael:

I kind of meant in an "amatuer video" sort of way, not walk in by accident way.

Tom's the muscle built, comic collecting, novel reading, thespian man I've always dreamt about...sigh...

Bearing in mind, Moyer, that I haven't actually bought a comic in about five or six years.  (Although I've purchased a trade or two in there.)  I have my Byrne Box upstairs, of course, but all the other boxes are down in the basement where they've remained untouched for nearly a decade!

JODI: For anyone who ever lived in a college dorm, I think it is near impossible to not be around when someone was having sex in the same room as you are, either that or I just roomed with horny people. LOL

Every roommate I ever had we used the tie on the door knob system.

TOM: Attitudes about sex are VERY different, I think. 

Wouldn't they have to be? As by admitting you are gay to yourself means you've already started to get past our shared societal conditioning.  I suspect that may also be why gays tend to skew more socially liberal.

Edited for gramatical purposes

Wouldn't they have to be, as by admitting you are gay to yourself means you've already started to get past our shared societal conditioning.

True, Geoff, but I believe it's even more than that.  I think MEN have different attitudes regarding sex than women -- even straight men.  I think part of the male sex drive is to acquire and dominate.  Men tend to find less emotion in the act.  Sure, intimacy is one of the great things about a relationship, but many gay men have that sense of partnership without it extending to the bedroom (or the living room, or the kitchen, or the tv room, or the shower, or wherever else we choose to have sex).