As chief bottom officer, Alexander Hall is on a mission to make people feel and perform their best when they bottom…
By Stephan Petar
Have you seen that social media post about “the bottom diet?” The video of a person “cutting” ice cubes while weeping? Alexander Hall (he/they) did, and while he also knows that the world is full of bottoms starving themselves prior to intercourse. “There was this whole stigma that you couldn’t eat before having sex, and I had just bottomed for 10 years damn well knowing that you can,” they tell IN Magazine.
Hall also felt there weren’t any adequate or inclusive resources for those wanting to bottom. “If there was something, it was only for gay people and that’s where I had a lot of problems.… There are eight billion of us on this planet. There are eight billion buttholes on this planet.”
In 2021, he co-founded The Bottom’s Digest with his partner, Mike Floeck, and assumed the role of chief bottom officer. The Digest is an inclusive learning platform for anyone who bottoms, wants to bottom or wants better gut health. What started as a cooking platform, showcasing bottom-friendly recipes to ensure there were no “starving sluts” in the world, has become a holeistic home for better bottoming. It provides tips, resources and recipes to make people feel and perform their best. It has grown to encompass a website and various social media platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Instagram) that have accumulated more than 355K followers.
“We founded The Bottom’s Digest as a cooking platform for a couple of reasons,” they explain. “One was to combat starving in the bedroom. Two was to dodge the algorithm on social media by making food content instead of straight-up sexual health content. It was able to push our information to the top through food, which is kind of our whole point. We all have a butt and we all have to eat. Stop making this only a gay issue.”
When asked what makes a food “bottom-friendly,” Hall notes it’s all about nuance. “With our cooking content, we always say, ‘Every dish is bottom-friendly depending on how your body reacts to things.’… You have to do the work to know your own body, to know your trigger foods.” Hall encourages us to think in general about foods that cause bloating (you don’t want that) and recommends we get more fibre in our diet.
When talking about the misinformation surrounding bottoming, Hall points to individualism as one of the main causes. “One person will do something that works for them, compounded by their lack of sex education, knowledge of porn and stuff, and be like, ‘I did this one thing. It worked for me. I’m going to spew that out to everyone.’… Misinformation comes from people who don’t have credentials.”
While Hall is not a doctor, he gets his information from accredited people, working with gastroenterologists and pelvic floor therapists. And Hall is an “incredible cook,” cooking since he was five years old. He also worked in reproductive rights, where he became passionate and knowledgeable about sex education, reproductive health and body autonomy.
The Bottom’s Digest quickly grew beyond food and began incorporating sex education. “I feel if we started with that too early, we would not have grown. I feel it [the algorithm on social media] would have found a way to suppress us,” he explained.
What started out as an even split in content between sex education and food turned into a 70/30 split, with sex education becoming the focus. “Food is not even sharing recipes anymore; it’s educating people about navigating their trigger foods, whereas for sex education there’s so much to explore like stress, stretching out, douching, aftercare, handling different penis sizes…moving from vagina to butt sex and back and forth. The list goes on!”
Anal sex is typically not a topic that’s spoken about often – if at all – in sex education classes, leaving many to figure it out individually through experimentation or word of mouth. The Bottom’s Digest creates an accessible platform teaching people who are curious about bottoming, or have been doing it for years, how to properly prepare and how to avoid hurting themselves.
For example, Hall explores the dangers of over-douching, where he lists the ways people could injure themselves. “Some short-term dangers are if you’re using a shower shot and you turn it up too high, you could puncture your rectum.… If you’re using a shitty douche bulb and you push it in too hard, you can get an anal fissure. Long term, you can destroy your gut health and the healthy bacteria that live in your rectum.”
He also notes the biggest douching myth is that one needs to over-douche for bigger penis sizes. “No matter how big their penis is, it is not going to be snaking your colon. There’s a part of your colon called the rectosigmoid junction, where your rectum curves into your sigmoid colon. Your sigmoid colon is where your poop is stored, so if you’re over-douching, you’re disturbing an area of your body that did not need to be disturbed, and that’s going to make douching a nightmare…and throw off your bowel regularity.”
As well as expanding its content, the brand now sells douches and will be introducing new faces to the platform. This growth is due to the dedicated followers who thank Hall for his tips. He even gets messages from women who peg their boyfriends, who note how the channel makes it less scary. “People think that bottoming is a lot of work and that is a misconception. Once you get over the learning curve and you learn how to relax and how to navigate the foods you can eat before bottoming.”
Before ending our chat, we had to ask an important question. Are peaches and eggplants really good for bottoms? “Peaches and eggplants, technically, are pretty good because they’re fibrous,” Hall says. “Someone who’s sensitive to sugars and fruits, usually a person with a specific type of IBS [irritable bowel syndrome], they might be a little more sensitive to something like a peach or eggplant. It’s kind of rare that someone is really sensitive to something like eggplant, but it has to be prepared a certain way.… If you eat it raw, we’re all pretty sensitive. If you just bake eggplant, fry it, roast it, whatever, then it’s going to be pretty good.”
So while you may be taking that 🍆 raw (😉), don’t eat it raw.
Want to explore The Bottom’s Digest? Search thebottomsdigest.com for these three easy recipes you can whip up at home: Lemon Ricotta Pasta, Overnight Oats and a cheese sauce. Want to learn more about douching? Check out “douching made easy” and “douching 101.”
STEPHAN PETAR is a born and raised Torontonian, known for developing lifestyle, entertainment, travel, historical and 2SLGBTQI+ content. He enjoys wandering the streets of any destination he visits, where he’s guaranteed to discover something new or meet someone who will inspire his next story.
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