One of those people with a problem hearing about his sexuality, according to Ellis, was Donald Cerrone. In fact, Ellis said he has noticed listenership for his radio show decline a bit since he started talking openly on the show about being bi.
Jason Ellis has built a strong following from years of professional skateboarding, radio hosting and mixed martial arts. Now that he’s out as bisexual, doing and talking about those same kinds of things makes many straight men in his alternative, tatt’d up, skateboarding, MMA world feel uncomfortable.
That was 2011, and Ellis was “straight at the time.” He said being a straight guy who played the “uncomfortable” role of being touched by another man was all fun and games. But this goes too far? Really?”Įllis very publicly was the center of some man-on-man action when he visited the Howard Stern show, got naked and let gay Star Trek star George Takei get up-close and personal with him. This book is the same, but I talk about sleeping with a bunch of guys and girls. They wanted to read the first book to hear about all the women I’ve slept with. “It makes people uncomfortable to know that I do things with guys,” Ellis said. These new revelations about his sexual escapades with just as many men, as well as his self-identification as bisexual, in a way bring into question the assumptions so many men in these macho worlds have had about the public’s perception of them. A guy who has openly talked and bragged about sexual escapades with copious women. An MMA fighter and boxer who “loves being punched in the face.” A professional skateboarder. Ellis is, on the one hand, the epitome of machismo.
Maybe there’s a 17 year-old-guy thinking about killing himself, and he sees me and he thinks, ‘Hey maybe I can just be myself.’”Īccording to Ellis, he brings the concept of “sex with dudes” home for a lot of these men in a way that undermines their own visions of themselves as macho straight men. “But I’m going to keep talking about it because they shouldn’t be frowning on it. “They tell me, ‘Man, this isn’t cool you talking about it,’” Ellis said from his home in Los Angeles. “Maybe there’s a 17 year-old-guy thinking about killing himself, and he sees me and he thinks, ‘Hey maybe I can just be myself.’” Yet as Ellis has been writing his book and opening up on the radio, some people in his uber-macho worlds of MMA fighting, skateboarding and talk radio have raised an eyebrow or flat-out suggested Ellis keep his sex with other men under wraps.
He pulls no punches, sharing stories about bringing men into the bedroom, the three-way he had with his wife and a trans woman before a fight, his escapades with the all-men hook-up app Grindr, and his therapy sessions that have helped him focus his sex life a bit more on quality over quantity.
Now in his new book, Still Awesome: The Trials and Tribulations of an Egotistical Maniac, Ellis pulls back the curtain on the now-not-so-secret life of a married man - in love with and sexually attracted to his wife - who at the same time is having sex with men. In the last couple of years he’s opened up about sex with men.
The audacious MMA fighter, and former pro skateboarder, has taken to his popular radio show to share aspects of his life including drug use, the abuse he suffered as a kid and sex with women.