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The topic of sexuality, power, and race often leads to heated discussions—and sometimes, uncomfortable truths. But one Adam4Adam reader asked a question we don’t often see in hookup spaces or gay blogs. And it might be time we give it space.
An Adam4Adam blog reader named terminator222 wrote to us:
It was documented that Buck breaking went on during slavery as a form of punishment and to demoralize Black slave men. I read that sometimes it was done to Black slave leaders in front of other slaves to break their spirits and make them appear weak. I’m thinking the guy they used to screw Black men had to be gay. I can’t imagine a straight white dude fucking a Black slave in the butt for punishment when so many other forms of punishment were available. I’m wondering would this subject matter be too divisive for you to explore, and at the same time, I would be interested in what others think about buck breaking. I’m wondering—did the buck breaker go raw, did he get shit on his dick, did he nut inside? Just curious and hope you guys explore this subject.
It’s a shocking comment—but the honesty and curiosity behind it is worth considering. Does sexual violence in the context of slavery reveal something deeper about the abuse of power, the complexities of desire, or the line between punishment and pathology?
First, a bit of context: buck breaking was a term used during American slavery, describing a horrifying practice where enslaved Black men—particularly those who were rebellious, strong, or defiant—were raped by white slave owners, often in public, to break their spirit and send a message to others. It was both a tool of sexual violence and psychological warfare, used to reinforce dominance and emasculate enslaved Black men in front of their communities.
While some historians have debated how common or even documented the practice was, the cultural memory and trauma it left behind remains potent—especially in discussions around Black masculinity, power, and sexual violence.
Having said all that, have you ever heard the term buck breaking before? When exploring this horrific sexual violence, can we separate it from sexuality itself, or is this purely a display of power and control? Do you feel the legacy of buck breaking still shapes how Black men are perceived, fetishized, or even discriminated against in contemporary gay culture? Do you think the gay community should talk more about historical sexual violence—especially when it intersects with race and gender roles? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
Nothing shocks me about that time in America, and yes it is a lot gay to fuck a man in the ass, it was the gay white man’s way of getting his gay on under the guise of controlling the black man, I wouldn’t be surprised to find gay relationships between an owner and a slave.
Ummm…some call me racist but I cannot top a black dude. It’s something in the area of them not being my bitch. Black dudes can top me. I will be their bitch but not the other way around. It has nothing to do with the size of their dick. I prefer small ones actually, but I’m more about “rock what you got”. In other words if your dick is huge come on with it. Thankfully I am a redhead and most black men collect me. I have always said it doesn’t get hotter than black on ginger. Fuck. Was a… Read more »
Um… Is it me or did this kind of go off topic.?
Me being black, I found that interesting if no one else did; my last lover was a total masc,. bttm, red-headed, hairy, burly, small- dicked, loves black men the most; to be fucked, love to suck dick, likes foot play, too. You mentioned the possibility of past lives. I once saw a well-documented case, of a “red-headed” 6yr old recalling his past life as an African slave in the Civil war. Lenard Nemoy (Spock on Star Trek) hosted a show called “In Search Of.” this kid knew/remembered his name, where he was killed in the war (get this) his birth… Read more »
Lamar, unfortunately I think you are right. majority Americans are racist, conditionally, personally. Fact is the white man has been trying to break black man and keep them down but hasn’t successed yet.
It just seems, as though, they’re ‘still’ trying to prove something that cannot be proven, ’cause it’s not true.
I think African Americans ‘we’ tend to be some of the most forgiving people in the entire world, but how do you forgive people who cannot forgive themselves; for they don’t believe hate is evil?
most white men with their little dicks couldn’t break anyone
Lmao, I like how you said “most” I’ve met white dudes who scared the shit out of me with those schlongs.
Don’t try to make it woo-woo, you’re just racist
Do you like to get fucked by groups of black dudes?
America (as in the US) with Blacks.
America (as in Canada) with Indigenous peoples.
The Romans with whoever they conquered.
Tribes in Africa with whoever they defeated.
Taliban soldiers with boys.
Powerful men have been raping men for a very long time.
That sort of thing happened during the Holocaust as well,
Yes it did,I remember reading about it.
I saw a documentary about the Holocaust from 1947 and they mentioned it.
Where on earth did you dig up that garbage?
Do you have a bris fetish as well?
We are not talking about that and if that is a topic for discussion then make that a separate issue
to put this in perspective: in the film “Deliverance” there is a scene where a white man is raped by hicks and that film was from 1972. Rape is dominance and nothing is more defining than forcing a pole up into a hole. Thus, Buck Breaking is not new and not only to Slaves. The Barbary Pirates did it and Churchill once spoke of the Royal Navy as “Don’t talk to me about Naval Tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash,”
It was also their sex life, not just rape and run.
There’s always that “thin line” or “grey area.”
Rape as power over the conquered was used in ancient times. The Old Testament warning not to lie with a man as with a woman was born of the belief that a woman was object for a man, subject to a man, and less than a man. A woman was not allowed to refuse. When an enemy army surrendered, their soldiers had to drop armor and weapons and walk under crossed spears, so they had to bend, like oxen under a yoke. They called this “subjugation” literally under the yoke. But their leader, because he voluntarily yielded, thus being “weaker”… Read more »
Not true, not accurate. When Romans invaded a town, they fucked everyone in sight. I’m quite sure some people were very welcoming to them.
Why would gay or bi men need to discuss buck breaking? Unless someone has some sort of weird fetish you feel uncomfortable with, there’s no need… kinda silly
political correctness where the miniscule become the maximum
Agreed. I never heard the term before. I wished I hadn’t read the article. Come on Adam. Too weird even for you.
yo, the jungle was always full of surprises as it was in the fields just another surprise among many surprises
This seems like a dumb conversation for a gay audience. The ideology of Buck breaking is exclusive to straight men and their inhibitions. This same audience actually believe guys get “turned out”. I don’t think being raped or demoralized makes you love men…in fact, I would think it makes you hate. It’s really funny those same folks don’t see disrespect toward black women as being “buck broken “. At some point, you need to come closer to understanding your sexuality. You don’t need to find excuses .
Then we could discuss the equivalent that does go on in prisons. I knew one guy who was turned into a bottom for black men/ftms by prison.
Yeah this topic is stupid. Rape of enslaved people has nothing to do with actual men who love men. The real issue is Black men being fetishized period. And it’s not solely a gay thing.
I can’t believe I’m writing this but I lived my life totally straight never looked at a guy sexually and had had several deeply intimate relationships with women. Then one night while serving in the Air Force I was raped by 3 officers and you are right I did hate, loathe the 3 men that ruined my life. I tried so hard to get past it and have sex with women again, but it didn’t work.I know this seems crazy but after a few sexless years I decided to try it with a man and there was a lot of… Read more »
You glossed over the fact that there is a question of actual documentation of this practice. Without that this article is meaningless. And the guy who wrote in, he seems intrigued by raping, getting shit on his dick and nutting in his victim.
This is history. Slavery occurred in America. Some people want to make like it never happened. They don’t want it discussed in school fearing kids from ancestors that owned slaves would feel uncomfortable. This is 2025 and I agree we must move on. Slavery been over with for years and today’s generation had absolutely nothing to do with those past sins. I get it. But, it did happen and African- Americans/ Americans need to know all about the history of slavery. I heard that a bust of Martin Luther King was moved to another section in the white house. Obama… Read more »
Yes, but it didn’t happen to you personally, or even your grandparents, and not at all to those who were never slaves.
Vigil, that kind of ‘energy’ is passed down through generations, i.e., the “Irish”, “Italian” as European types coming to America, ‘still’ waving their flags of heritage by proclaiming their ethnicities . . . It’s because of their time being discarded largely, finally excepted, as fellow Americans.
I’m not shocked, or even maddened, just disappointed, lots of dark-empaths and narcissists and ignorant; haven’t the wherewithal, of understanding.
Ignorant response!!!!!
The occupant currectly in the White House is nothing more than a insecure racist nazi. If we still have a country by the time the 2026 elections roll around we will be lucky. He is trying to break everyone who has some pigment in their skin. I am a white guy who admire and respect black men, the strong, and the survivors.
The writer had me interest until that part about. RAW, shiting on the dick, and nuttin inside. As if knowing those things got him excited…Thats your interest in buck breaking?…smh
Sir, bareback, fecal matter, ejaculation are sometimes associated with anal sex.
Somebody has a raceplay fetish that they’re trying to dress up as a historical discussion
No kidding. The Mandingo fantasies are a guilty pleasure with whomever wrote that drivel
I’m in my mid 70’s and this is only the second query I’ve ever read of this abuse. Why call this kind of racism anything other than predatory violence? Raping to dominate; nothing less disgusting. Humans owning other human beings was always violence of owners against their slaves. What else accounts for a theft of labor as well as liberty? As described, I see nothing for queer men to own here. Pleasure had nothing to do with such degrading. Certainly gay white people had consensual relations with black slaves. But we didn’t start hearing any gay stories in the US… Read more »
From the most predatory violent creature on earth, predatorial violence. Some dudes, even today, ‘still’ derive pleasure from such, it’s not the highest form of humanity for sure, but quite lowly.
I’ve lived in the south all my life and I have heard of awful things being perpetrated against slaves but I have never, and I mean never, ever heard of such a thing. White men and sex with slave girls? Yes, I’ve heard of that but never with the men unless it was a white woman wanting some purple crayon. It wouldn’t surprise me too much if a tool handle might have been forced up an ass or two, but a dick? You tell terminator222 we want to see the documentation. Frankly, I think his assertions are a bunch of… Read more »
So, now who’s the ignorant one, LMAO!
Of course, in your head, such as it apparently; you couldn’t possibly believe that the purity, of lily white, could ever do such, lmao, that’s white for you, though, right, I mean as a southerner.
Just for you, just the facts: Gay could be a death sentence for white or black back then. You got lots of mouth about how everybody is a racist except you. I doubt you have ever considered the possibility that people don’t dislike you because you’re black. They dislike you because you’re a race baiting asshole just like your hero Al Sharpton. You blame whitey for your own failures created by your shitty attitude. You’re a loser. At least my race built civilizations while your origins are still wallowing in squalor and violence in their homeland. Especially those who have… Read more »
Slave girls went after whites in order to have ‘pretty babies, with gud hair’, and sheet. Still do. That plantation fantasy is alive an well with bougie black girls. At uni we had a black studies prof that gave A’s to any white guy that would stud her. Finally got pregnant by a bisexual ball player. Fag Hag for sure, and a Total Dashiki wearing feminist, but went after the most redneck of athletes. This PC bullshit is for the geldings that never get out of their basements
That happened after “chattel” not during, it was sheer rape, pure and simple. However, the “gud hair,” thing, yeah, to this very day, which is ‘why’ in our “woke” family, all the women in our family are wearing their naturally nappy hair and dreads.
go to the sto’, the mall, or de ol’ swap meet and see how many wenches are wearing weaves and fake hair. What kind of blinders do you wear Toby?
Hey, whatever goes on between consenting adults is ok…fantasize about anything you want.
I have heard stories of Buck Break years ago,Damn!Nothing more horrible than unwanted sex,especially something like this!Nothing surprising about the things that went on in that period of America!!The men who played the top were gay,if your dick gets hard thinking about another man’s glory hole you are gay!If a individual want that type of race play more power to you!
As being a black man, I have a fetish for race play. I do believe whoever was doing the buck breaking did not use protection, and they most likely nutted inside the slaves. That shows complete dominance and it leaves them with the end result inside their body.
Awe shit, so it’s true! I had heard this once from a “white” dude who was a pen pal, we’re both history lovers.
I just can’t get past; ‘if’ Africans were to be actually, “only 3/5’s of the human,” that Caucasians considered themselves to be, my question is, who’s the real source of animal, to be fornicating with what ‘they’ considered such?
So that possess more than one question.
This is garbage. Dredging up cr⁴p like this is why there is still fighting in places like the Middle East. Furthermore, trying to keep a specific activity with such detail is about as uncouth as making a mural of it. Why is it that currently a small group wants a street name changed because the name is in honor of a doctor from the mid 1800’s, who reportedly had slaves. But we gotta talk about homosexual acts perpetrated onto slaves. Now a conversation about an injustice that was probably told every June about butt fucking so no one would forget… Read more »
I think for a lot of “white guys”, it’s a matter of “having the shoe on the other foot.” Giving up control, physically/sexually/psychologically to a black man, it’s adventurous, for “white guys,” since they have the power in the socio-economic and political arenas. But also, you know there are totally racist gay white bttm men; that are just plain flat-out willing to exploit you/’us’ that are typically very selfish, they now want to bttm for BBC, you’re never their equal, so, you’re just their big black tool, lmao! Now, I’m certainly not sayin’ all are like that, hell, as a… Read more »
And the award for “The Most Inappropriate as well as Disturbing Topic PUT UP by the A4A Blog” goes to … Is Buck Breaking Too Divisive to Discuss?
It goes far beyond being Divisive, And well beyond a historical study of Racism. It’s not about sex between consenting adults or kinks or fetishes. I’m petty tame when it comes to sex. And widely open to others doing whatever those involved want to do when it comes to sex.
This topic? No.
I think the actions, were/are a great deal, more divisive than the subject, personally. Being divided from oneself, by such an act, is completely, inhuman and that’s what you’ve been exposed to, Hunter0500. How horrible, white has been.
What a stupid way to introduce this topic. Wearing a condom to rape a slave is pretty unlikely in that time, though not impossible. Standards of cleanliness were different. You didn’t ask if the slave would have an orgasm from it or not. What would be relevant is if guys are turned on to act this out. I met at least one who was into such roleplay. It could be therapeutic for some. But to assume all White Men would relate to being a slave-owner is as racist as assuming all Black Men would relate to being a slave. If… Read more »
It is rape and should be treated as such. There is no excuse for it in the past or present. Things like this are being removed from our history books because it is so shameful. But we should never let that happen. A healthy society can admit it’s mistakes and take steps to prevent it from ever happening again. Yes, it is painful to read and talk about, but it is still history and must never be forgotten.
Excellent response!! Exactly my point!!! Instead of being embarrassed and dismissive, receive it. Teach it and teach of the strong whites that fought tooth and nails to abolish slavery such as heros like Abraham Lincoln, abolishionist John Brown and Ceasar Rodney who rode on horseback overnight in a terrible, lightning, rainstorm from Camden Wyoming, Delaware to Washington DC to sign the emancipation proclamation.
Correction: Ceasar Rodney was not an abolishionist. He made the trip overnight from Dover Delaware to Philadelphia to vote to show his favor for independence.
Still occurs in some prison’s today
Wasn’t the carribean islands used to enforce physical violence against, slaves that were rebellious. Which explains some of the ongoing hostility in those islands towards the alphabet community. Not that the hostility towards the community doesn’t exist elsewhere. As far as fetishes are concerned, it seems to work both ways in interracial exchanges.
The real humiliation is the fact it was rape rather than the fact that it was anal sex with a man, and public, not so much the races involved. It would be just as traumatic and humiliating for a woman; vaginally or anally raped publicly. Bisexual and gay men have been known throughout history and commonplace in the royal courts. It was an accepted practice by most; even encouraged by wives who were married for political reasons and whose primary purpose was to produce a male heir. In many cases both marital partners had lovers of the same or opposite… Read more »
From the last blog of glorifying jussie smollett to this one.
I’ll keep my comment to myself
i agree w/u about jussie smollet. hes a well-known liar and his off camera personality is sometimes very ugly. so i as a gay man don’t want his wedding/proposal to be advertised. that new hubby should know what he’s in for. yikes!
As a Black man, let’s be real about it all. White guys did this to slaves, not only to get their freak on, but also as a form of power and control. Sex is not just sex in ANY form; it can be used for control of not only the body, but the mind. Like I said, let’s get real about it, look at yourselves, we ALL use sex as a weapon, and we KNOW (provided that you’re good), you will always have your partner right where you want them, so they will cum back for more. How you choose… Read more »
Consider the time this occurred, and, perhaps, still occurring–reflect on the realities for Juneteenth and prolonged slavery–I tend to ponder on the fellow slave owners who didn’t commit such an act, albeit, publicly or in the privacy of the slave owner’s plantation, and the supposed respect and/or continued communication and business dealings the “gay” slave over and the straight slave owner maintained, if that ever occurred? And, what did the wife and/or misstress and/or the slave side piece feel and/or do mentally, emotionally and physically with this “gay” husband, philanderer and lover/rapist? Did any, some or all of these females… Read more »
I spend a lot of time thinking about how my ancestors had gay sex. Not.
You may not!!! History is history. You can’t pick and chose and only think about good history. Bad history occurred too and white men were behind most of the bad history. When something negative is brought up about white men, it strikes a nerve within gay white men as well. Gay white guys momentarily forget that they were, and still are victimized by white men. It started from white men taking land from the Indians to slavery, blacks, women/ gay rights all being violated by white men. Now look at today’s white house. We’re going backward. MAGA’s agenda is to… Read more »
Get over it fool. Take a one way trip to Ghana if life is so difficult.
I started to address such ignorance, but I refuse.