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Doug "Butt Boy" Bench is a leather fetishist who found that the music played in dungeons left him flaccid. So, drawing upon his experience composing music for theater, Doug produced music to fuel his BDSM play. Butt Boy got his start in Houston 10 years ago with his first album, "Feel the Music." His compositions are original and written specifically for sex and BDSM play. We spoke with him recently about the genesis of the "dungeon music" genre, his sexuality and how society feels about "butt boys."  ErosZine: You say that the usual dungeon music wasn't very inspiring for you. Can you recall what it was? Any particular bands, songs or music? Butt Boy: The music I was not pleased with was not dungeon music. That music genre wasn't in existence until I coined the term to describe my music. Now the term "dungeon music" is used by many. I was doing what most people do for sex music: compiling my own tapes by finding a song here and there that did NOT have irritating lyrics, the wrong tempo or a feel that would screw up my sex. After a while of hunting for songs, I decided that I should just write my own, since I'm a composer. Those first songs sparked the whole Butt Boy dungeon music series. EZ: In one of your online interviews, you say, "any hole." Do you consider yourself primarily gay or bisexual? Or somewhat omnisexual? BB: [Laughing] Omnisexual is a great term! I consider myself Bi but I'm currently "married" to Robert, my husband. I wish that French psychologist had never come up with the names Homosexual, Bisexual and Heterosexual. Now everyone thinks we have to be in a category. I think humans should just find someone who makes them feel good and go with it. It's OK to like the opposite sex regularly and try the same sex if it's in front of you and feels good. Let's just be sexual. EZ: That's a great response! No boundaries! If your music is perfect for dungeon play, what would you consider conducive to just plain ol' sex? I mean simple fucking, with no BDSM involved?  BB: My "Plugged" CD was written for just fucking. All speeds. You can pound to the fast song, grind to the grooving song and slow screw to the slow song. Some of my CD's are written for specific sex acts: cocksucking, flogging, fisting, etc. They work because I choose the right tempo for that act, the right ethereal head trip for that act and the right energy for that act. So the flogging CD has a beat you can match and the bondage CD is less beat and more head trip for the tied-up person to get into. In the same manner, "Plugged" is psychologically set up to keep your hips moving for fucking.EZ: That all sounds very well thought-out. What do you like to listen to when you're just hanging out? BB: It surprises people when I tell them that I never listen to music. I quit listening to music on the radio about 20 years ago. First, I found that the melodies got into my head and came out when I was writing. I'd have a great song I wrote and someone would say, "Isn't that the old melody from that Rolling Stones song?" Then I'd have to dump the song. Second, I can't really enjoy hearing music because I always break it down and analyze it. So now I only listen to NPR when I'm driving in my car. EZ: So, Butt Boy as a name has not yet endeared you to the mainstream. Yet you're keeping it. Would you say that's a marketing decision, designed to self-select your audience? Or is it a form of defiance? BB: Definitely a form of defiance. I've learned over the years, being Gay, that if you act like you belong in the shadows, people will treat you like you belong in the shadows. The best thing Gays ever did was start the Gay Pride movement at Stonewall in 1969. Now that we tell society we are not perverts and we're not ashamed of how we "get off" in sex, society has started saying "to each his own."  Putting the Butt Boy name out there in huge red letters has been my way, for the last 10 years, of saying "screw you" if you don't like what I like. I anticipate that society, over time, will cease to find the term "butt boy" as obscene and start to see it as just another sexual practice. They may not practice it, but they will be tolerant of those who do.Now we need to get the Hetero BDSM guys and gals to come out of the shadows and start their own BDSM Pride movement. Until they do, society will always believe BDSMers are perverts because we hide in the shadows as if we believe we are perverts. EZ: Creating your own genre is pretty cool. Do you feel any other artists fall easily into the category? BB: I know of only two other composers who specifically write and call their music "dungeon" music. People are always finding artists who write music that will fit in the dungeon. But you usually have to pull specific songs off their album, since not all of them work in the dungeon. Thus, we're back to making compilation CD's of various artists. It's a pain, and it's what prompted me to start writing Dungeon music 10 years ago. EZ: Chanting over music is interesting and can be somewhat hypnotic. Do you plan on further use of chanting? BB: Yes. I use chanting because it's primal. I use choirs singing with no words because it gives a ritual feel to the music. Dungeon music should be primal and ritual because these BDSM acts we do are our animalistic sides coming out. My chanting and choirs help the listener get to that animalistic level faster.
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