Book Reviews
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Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 6:17pm By EditrixAbbyBetter Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty By Joan Price Seal Press $11.00, 267 pages I’ve never been one to plan ahead, especially when it entails something I find distasteful. I could easily classify aging as one of...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010 - 9:25am By Dusty HornThe Private Collection 1970-1979Edited by Dian Hanson Taschen $39.99 Dian Hanson has my dream job. Slowly, methodically, she is archiving the history of printed pornographic images before every human who has ever held their junk in one hand...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 4:19pm By Chris HallVanilla Sex Michael Rosen Shaynew Press $40.00 or available as a free PDF download, 65 pp. The extent to which Michael Rosen's photography has shaped my sexual imagination can be demonstrated by Plate 7 in his newly-released...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009 - 12:02pm By Dusty HornThe Story of O By Pauline Réage and Guido Crepax Eurotica $24.95, 176 pp. In a house of professional Dommes, The Story of O inevitably comes up. If you are kinky, or trade in sadomasochistic fantasies, you have an opinion on Pauline Réage's...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009 - 12:19pm By Simon SheppardBigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema From Beefcake to Hardcore By Jeffrey Escoffier Running Press $24.95, 368 pp. Though I'm not, I confess, much of a consumer of commercial porn videos (I much prefer to jack off to still photos and...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 9:52am By Angie DellThe Low Road By James Lear Cleis Press $14.95, 272 pp. I was curious when James Lear's The Low Road arrived in my mail, because what little I knew about its plot can be summarized by this: erotic gay adventure novel based on Robert Louis Stevenson's...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 9:44am By John LeavittHow Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do By Sharon Moalem Harper Collins 26.99, 288 pp. Back during the beginning of railroads, many stations had a book lending program. You'd rent a book from your starting station...
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Saturday, October 3, 2009 - 3:10pm By Lisa MontanarelliTemporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex By Elizabeth Bernstein University of Chicago Press $24.00, 288pp On October 17, 1981, the purple-clad, pompadoured pimp Velvet Jones (Eddie Murphy) appeared in a Saturday Night Live...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 1:37pm By Chris HallScarlett Takes Manhattan By Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt Fugu Press $12.95, 48 pp. It's a little intimidating trying to write a review of Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt's graphic novel Scarlett Takes Manhattan while comics writer Warren Ellis'...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:10am By John LeavittWe Did Porn By Zak Smith Tin House Press $24.95, 488 pp. Too much honesty surrounds We Did Porn, but Zak Smith's take on the world of Alt-Porn is a refreshing kind of excess. "Alt" porn, or whatever they're calling Being Naked On The...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 10:54am By Angie DellThe East, the West, and Sex By Richard Bernstein Knopf $27.95, 336 pp. There is an undeniable sensuousness to "the East" as Richard Bernstein describes it, addressing an expanse of exotic locations in Asia, the Pacific Islands, Northern...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009 - 10:04am By Dusty HornBest Erotic Comics, 2009 Edited by Greta Christina Last Gasp Books $19.95, 200 pp. Critic and novelist Samuel Delaney describes genres that exist outside or on the fringes of so-called high-brow legitimacy as the "para-literary."...
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Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 11:11am By Angie DellLive Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev Seven Stories Press $17.95, 240 pp. I began reading this book with an academic mind. In college I had taken a course on female psychology, and the readings that stood...
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Friday, August 7, 2009 - 5:08pm By AlwaysArousedGirl10,000 Dresses By Marcus Ewert, Illustrated by Rex Ray Seven Stories Press, 32 pp. Poor Bailey. She dreams each night of the fabulous dresses she'll design. Ten thousand in all, they march up a staircase and reveal themselves to her one by one....
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Saturday, August 1, 2009 - 9:00am By John LeavittThe Forbidden Apple By Kat Long Ig Publishing, 288 pp. Sitting here, right now, at the kitchen table, I can count no less than eight books detailing the various histories of New York City. Gay histories, Black histories, Irish histories, Women's...
