In "The Masculine Marine," Steven Zeeland interviews active-duty U.S. Marines about what it means to be a man, to be a Marine, and to desire other men. Their answers shed light on homoerotic bonding among Marines, hazing and institutional violence, how gay Marines reconcile their sexual identity with the ethos of "hard" Marine supermasculinity, Marines in all-male pornography, how Marines feel about being viewed as sex objects, and male attitudes about women in the Marine Corps. In the following excerpts, "Captain Eric" (aka "R", as featured on the cover of The New York Times Sunday Magazine) takes issue with the gay stereotype that "all Marines are bottoms."