The survey question for January 2010 was "When did you come out?", which is a slight variation of asking someone their age. People come out as gay at different points in their lives. The younger generation that grew up with "Will and Grace" and Ellen Degeneres on TV are able to acknowledge their homosexual tendencies at a younger age than previous generations. Many older gay men waited until they were away at college or established in a career before they took at chance at being open about their sexuality.

The other reason I thought this was a good question for a vintage gay porn website is because the first erotic images you see when you come out will probably influence your taste for the rest of your life. The names of the top porn stars during a certain period change as well as the style of photograph and film making.

For me, the style of clothes, hair and interior design from the 1970's is what peaks my interest in vintage porn. For others, it's the body style of the pre-steroid and pre-tattoo days, the shaved crotch vs. unshaved crotch debate, or for others it's the innocence of softcore no-pentration 1960's. And moving in the other direction, the younger guys who only grew up with condoms in gay porn in the late 1990's are curious about the pre-condom days.

So here are the decidedly UN-scientific results of my survey "When did you come out?"

1970's - 30.7%

1980's - 25%

1990's - 20.5%

1960's - 14.8%

Yesterday! - 9.1%

You can ignore the ones that responded with "Yesterday!" because they were probably just trying to be funny. VintageBareback.com is a pretty good website, but I don't think it actually instantly turned any straight men gay.

The new survey for February should be fun to watch. The topic is "muscle guys vs. twinks", so I am curious to see which way it goes.