NL-10011 Men at Sea
Men at Sea
Numbers Paperback Library
NL-10011
$2.25
Introduction Men at sea have only other men to turn to for solace from loneliness, for affection, for companionship and understanding. How natural that a certain type of man should choose such a lifestyle in preference to the more traditional existence of pretense and hiding.
FOREWORD
Men who love the sea, who turn to her for sustenance and livelihood, frequently do so for as many reasons as the number of men themselves.
Not the least of these, consciously or not, is the subtle awareness of isolation from society, the close proximity of other men, the absence of women.
Many men who chose the life of a seagoing routine do so, today in mechanized and jet-powered vessels, in the days of the Phoenicians, the first to set out in frail, single-sailed craft, through the pages of history, did so for the nearness and companionship of other men.
Adventurous, strong, brave men who controlled their destinies and bffered the challenge and camaraderie of virile, self-confident masculinity.
Men who love men are not suddenly appearing from among the masses, but have been among us from the beginning of time, and only today, the few who attempt to break from the mold of homogenized sameness, who are learning to shed their fears of society, the guilts that society has heaped upon them, are displaying the self-awareness and self-appreciation that earlier men, less frightened, less inhibited, found the natural and right and only proper way to live their lives.
Men at sea have only other men to turn to for solace from loneliness, for affection, for companionship and understanding. How natural that a certain type of man should choose such a lifestyle in preference to the more traditional, etiquette-bound existence of pretense and hiding.
The romantic pirates of the late Seventeenth and earth Eighteenth Centuries lived their lives freely, openly, without concern or consideration of the mores and judgements of their landlocked contemporaries. The lives -and loves they chose were their own doing, their own responsibility, and they cared not what more formally programmed men might think. More free and independent, in spite of harshly repressive governments, these men were a law unto themselves, and lived their lives that were natural and comfortable for them.
Captain Colin Kehoe, Sword of the Sea, Cutlass of the Caribbean, free-booting pirate, was one such man. His story is told in the following pages, his lifestyle freely and openly told as it happened. Adventure, excitement, freedom, but the reality of it was his own. Meeting the challenges, emergencies, accidents that came his way, he was a man who loved other men.
The love of Man for Man is as old as Man himself. Much of the Western world’s ancient history has been altered and purged of sexual references by overzealous religious and political monopolies in the name of sanctity and decency, yet there are truths and events impossible to totally expunge from the record of Mankind. From Alexander the Great through the lover-warriors of Sparta through such literary greats as Oscar Wilde to the present day, the homophilic man has been represented in history. Not always accepted by the majority of society, that man has had to fight for his place, his right to life, liberty, love, and the pursuit of happiness.
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