# Do MEN ride the casting couch, too? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 24, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-ride-the-casting-couch-too/845318 "2019-12-24T00:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-ride-the-casting-couch-too/845318/21 "2019-12-25T08:08:33Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > Certainly didn’t seem to be treating this as a serious issue. Agreed. The OP really needs to read the Brendan Fraser article. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-ride-the-casting-couch-too/845318/22 "2019-12-25T09:30:20Z")
Chris Kattan relates a [story](https://dnyuz.com/2019/05/29/chris-kattan-what-destroyed-my-friendship-with-will-ferrell/) where he was pressured by Lorne Michaels to sleep with film director Amy Heckerling. He did, by his account, to the detriment of his friendship with Will Ferrell. An SNL rep denied everything, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-ride-the-casting-couch-too/845318/23 "2019-12-30T15:14:04Z")
The music industry too? There were stories that some of the Backstreet Boys wre, well, nomen est omen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-ride-the-casting-couch-too/845318.md?page=1)