This song about the production of Doctor Who sung by Tennant and Tate mentions Barrowman’s habit
I have a bit of trouble thinking Barrowman being icky. Not just because even now that he’s hitting “old” he’s still gorgeous, nor because he’s gay (I didn’t know that until long after I saw him on Doctor Who/Torchwood) … it’s more that he’s “English” and I grew up watching Benny Hill skits on HBO. Throw the first two things into the mix and, as long as no one who saw him peenie plopping were scared or scarred… meh.
Wagging the weenie… yeah, that was comedy back then over there, I guess. Ribald, I think? Ok, so it was real boobs and fake willies.
Then my future husband “introduced” me to satellite tv. The big dishes. Back when you just paid for the dish and got feeds from around the world. The guys had it set on a porn channel in their garage. My eyes got big.
Then I pissed them off by doing a running monologue on anything I could nitpick. But I varied the timing of my remarks. Interrupting their car talking. The next time I was in the shop… they switched the channel to a western. Which had me shrugging because I had already seen it and had a handy dandy book to read.
Milton Berle liked to show off his as well but he would ask first.
Born in Scotland, raised in the US. I’m not sure how “English” that makes him.
I’d also like to suggest that there’s a huge difference between being paid to flash a fake willie on-camera vs. voluntarily flashing your own real willie in private at persons who did not ask to see it. The latter is never appropriate. This is true no matter how gorgeous or gay (really, what do those things have to do with anything?) he is.