ADULT: A recent event marking yet another year in his sixties has Barry Lowe reminiscing about a more exciting – and satisfying – birthday party.

ADULT: John, George, Peter, Frank, et al: A stroll down the memory lane of love has Barry Lowe feeling the twinges of regret.

Fresh from reading the latest gay coming-of-age bestseller, Barry Lowe reflects on his own coming out journey through high school in the 1960s.

ADULT: While exploring the origins of the humble zipper, the intrepid Barry Lowe recalls the time when he first became enamoured with what lies beneath.

Barry Lowe dons the glasses and test drives the latest novelty in adult entertainment – 3D porn.

ADULT: Forget Sunrise or Today. Barry Lowe and his twink muse Gavin have discovered a far more riveting and titillating program on Sunday mornings – Pop Asia.

ADULT: Are you a stallion or a mare? Barry Lowe gets the inside scoop on a fair of the rough kind.

You’re his pity fuck; he’s your shallow fuck. As Barry Lowe discovers, agendas run both ways when it comes to sex.

ADULT: A convivial visit from a used underwear collector leads to Barry Lowe and his friend rummaging through the laundry hamper.

After 17 of his erotic fiction stories are banned from a major online retailer, Barry Lowe ponders the politics of censorship in cyberspace.

ADULT: Watching others get off – either onscreen or in real life – is often as stirring as the act itself, writes Barry Lowe.

ADULT: Recent controversies between Mardi Gras and the polyamorists prompt Barry Lowe and his friends to debate love, marriage and monogamy.

How Dennis Altman’s seminal 1971 work, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation, struck an enduring chord with SX’s sex writer, Barry Lowe.  

Barry Lowe puts the move on a string of delivery people, handymen and tradies to help loosen his bolts and tighten his nuts.

ADULT: Barry Lowe’s twink muse Gavin has taken up a new sporting interest – tennis. And not even the anti-gay words of a former tennis champion can keep him away from Rafael Nadal.