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Title: The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein, Felice Picano, Edmund White ISBN: 0-06-016813-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: November, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Ok, if the straights need a lesson, this is for them.
Comment: What does a gay man have to benefit from this book? I have asked myself this many times as I sat and flipped through this book, laughing aloud, feeling silly (having bought it only because I wanted to shock the old woman at my book store who adored me and talked poorly about gay men).
Having bought this book years ago, when I was 22 -- I knew what I needed to know then. This seems like a crash course for those outside of the gay community, to those closeted types who need to do research, to know more about who they are, or those bisexual couples merely wishing to explore.
At this book's worst, it's there to hold up and shout "freaks". Funny, when I flipped through the Joy of Sex for heterosexuals I don't ever recall seeing a chapter on SEX WITH ANIMALS!
It seems this book is not so much a book on how to enjoy sex, but a rudamentary book of what gay life is : insurance, wills, choosing a doctor, marriage. If as gay men we were instructed about our lives and the choices we were to make later on, this is the stuff we'd learn starting with our first sex ed book in grade school on up through high school. Nothing more than a bore to shock the libraries.
Rating: 5
Summary: what a great book!
Comment: This book has helped me through many hard times. Being a gay male is made much easier by reading this book. It teaches you a lot about yourself. Now my sex life is great, and I couldn't be happier! Recommended!
Rating: 2
Summary: Not new and not about joy
Comment: Readers who hope to find in this book a how-to manual of gay sex will be very sadly disappointed. Rather it tries (unsuccessfully in my opinion) to be an "encyclopedic" reference from A to Z (with the emphasis on zzzzzz) on the "joyful" life of gay sex, and even then, the book turns out to be only alphabetized, not encyclopedic. Even on those terms it fails. E.g., how can a section about wills be part of the "joys". If anything, wills are a problem about being gay, and irrelevant to gay sex, joys or not. I would say that this book is not at all directed towards gays, who I'm sure will know much , much, much more about the subject than has been written here, but towards those who have a prurient interest, are mere gawkers, or who are timidly venturing towards it. If that is the case, none of these groups would be well-served by this book.The text is antiseptic, pedestrian, and boring, and the illustrations are grotesque, not to mention degrading.
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Title: Sex Tips for Gay Guys by Dan Anderson ISBN: 0312288735 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men by Bill Brent, Zanne and Fish ISBN: 157344121X Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex by Stephen E. Goldstone ISBN: 0440508460 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 18 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men by Jack Hart ISBN: 155583468X Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Joy of Gay Sex : Fully revised and expanded third edition by Charles Silverstein, Felice Picano ISBN: 0060012730 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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