Important Formative Influence
(From MAD, #91 (December 1964), p. 18, "A MAD Guide to Little-Known Jobs in Television" "The Die-ers")
As a sex-starved young teen, I used to spend hours contemplating this cartoon of a mustached gunslinger getting gunned down. I would get hard over this cartoon. I would jerk off over this cartoon imagining what it would be like to look like that and get gunned down like that, or seeing myself gunning down a man like that. And over and over again, in a full-length mirror, I would try my damnedest to imitate that cartoon as I do now below:
(Needs more room. Also tighter pants--though the stripes are right--a second gunbelt, and conchos around the hatband. And how to shoot the hat off and drop the gun at just the right angles?)
I just ran across this cartoon on the internet today, and it still works on me the same way. I've come three times over it already in the last 24 hours. The men I go craziest over--the lean cowboys and gunslingers with long faces and major squints and handlebar mustaches--look just like the man depicted in the cartoon above. And the closer their costume approaches the dress of that man--black hat, open black vest, tightish jeans or striped pants, boots with big spurs--the sexier I find them. For that matter, as you see, I myself try to look as much like that man as possible when I'm thinking of sex.
Addenda, 5/6/2026: I think I've got it at last! The new hat helped. (Original photos modified by GPT Image 2 and Grok Imagine):
