The truth is, bottoming can hurt if you don’t know what you’re doing. How To Bottom Like A Porn Star is a beginner’s real-time, step-by-step guide to clean, painless bottoming. It reveals all the secrets to having great sex including optimised positions to increase enjoyment, top doctor-recommended cleansing products to avoid messiness, and the :60 Sphincter Release Method, a foolproof way of relaxing the sphincter for pain-free penetration.  

The #1 gay sex guide on Amazon for four years in a row returns this week with a revised edition featuring dozens of graphic, eye-popping medical illustrations. Michael Alvear combines his unique brand of wit and wisdom with the most up-to-date research from his team of urologists and colon-rectal specialists, for an engaging book that entertains as much as it informs. No other sex guide, gay or straight, has ever centered their instructions around medical illustrations, let alone such unconventional ones. The book also expands the reader’s understanding of anatomy by focusing on little-known facts. For example, did you know there are actually two sets of sphincter muscles?  Most people believe there is only one!

“What could be more rewarding than liberating people from their fears, preconceptions, and hesitancies,” reflects Michael Alvear from his Atlanta home.  “I love helping people achieve a deeper understanding of their nature, and overcome their physical and emotional struggles so they can achieve a more rewarding sex life.”

The unconventional medical illustrations in How To Bottom Like A Porn Star dramatize what happens internally during intercourse, providing a visual understanding that can’t be described with words alone.

Michael Alvear has written on gay sex for close to 25 years. His syndicated sex advice column, Need Wood? Tips for Getting Timber, appeared nationally in multiple gay press publications.  He also co-hosted a sex makeover show that premiered on Channel 4 in the UK and was later broadcast on HBO in the USA.  He has spent the last five years writing books.

How To Bottom Like A Porn Star is the first in Michael Alvear’s Like A Porn Star series.  Other books in the series are How To Top Like A Porn Star, How To Give Head Like A Porn Star, How To Cum Like A Porn Star, How To Get A Sex Drive Like A Porn Star, How To Spice Up Your Sex Life Like A Porn Star and How To Talk Like A Porn Star. How To Top Like A Porn Star has also been updated with new information and bold illustrations!

YASS Magazine met Michael Avear and this is what you need to know to become the queen of botttoming!

Who is Michael Alvear and how would you identify and describe yourself?

180 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal. But then I wake up and realize I’m just an ordinary gay guy with a gift for making sex guides kinda funny.

You have been writing about gay sex for the last 25 years, you have appeared nationally in multiple gay press publications and also, you have co-hosted a sex makeover show. Tell me about these achievements and how your career started and evolved.

About 20 years ago, Dan Savage wouldn’t syndicate his column to gay papers  so the editor for a local gay paper in Atlanta asked me if I would do a funny sex advice column.  I said, “Yes, send me your cutest employees and I’ll get started.”  From there the column grew in popularity and was syndicated across the country.  That led to my first book, Men Are Pigs But We Love Bacon, which caught the attention of TV producers in the UK who auditioned me for a sex makeover show called The Sex Inspectors.  I knew I got the job when the Exec producer asked me, “What do you think of women who fake their orgasms?”

I shrugged my shoulders and said, “That’s nothing.  Men fake whole relationships.”

How did you decide to come up with the idea about this book?

I’m fascinated by the love/hate relationship gay men have with porn. It gives us a completely unrealistic view of sex, yet we aspire to it.  We admire the adult performers yet we look down on them (ask guys if they’d date a porn star–a quarter would jump at the chance; a quarter would be horrified and the rest would be both.

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Are you dedicated to writing at this moment in your life?

It’s all I do. 

How do porn stars bottom and how can we bottom like them?

Read the book!  Actually, you don’t even have to read it.  You can just look at all the illustrations here and it’ll make sense. Or you can read my epic, free post on it. 

Is it possible to bottom without pain?

Yes, by understanding the three pain points and coming up with a strategy to address them.

What is the most common mistake when it comes to bottoming?

It’s the same mistake out of shape people make when they sign up to run a marathon. What makes you think you think you can do it without getting your body ready to take on the stress?

Do emotions and the way you feel affect your bottoming experience?

Yes.  “Anticipatory pain” can put your butt in a headlock. If your self-talk is filled with the language of expected pain (“this is going to hurt like hell,”  “I’ll never walk again!” “BRACE FOR IMPACT!”) you can bet your butt will clench for its safety as hard as it can. 

Similarly, how can you top like a porn star?

By understanding that you’re not in charge–the guy underneath you is.  Once you understand this counter-intuitive power dynamic things go way more smoothly.

What advice would you give to beginners in bottoming?

Practice, practice, practice.  With fingers and sex toys.  And use my :60 Sphincter Release Method.  It’s based on “PNF,” or Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation.

Don’t let the fancy-schmancy name fool you.  It just refers to a “contraction/release” method that gives all muscles, including the sphincter, no choice but to relax.

What are the best positions for a pleasurable bottoming experience?

Any position that puts your knees at a 90 degree (or more) angle to your torso.  Like squatting.

What about food consumption before anal penetration?

Stay away from what I call “McWHATs!” — things like a Triple-Decker Guacamole Bacon Thickburger.  Otherwise, your sheets will end up with so many tire tracks they’ll look like a NASCAR logo.

What are your future plans?

Date a porn star.

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HOW TO BOTTOM LIKE A PORN STAR will be available on Amazon and Audible on October 9.  It is the first gay sex guide to be available on the Audible platform!  Learn more at:  https://likeapornstar.net.