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New Joy Of Gay Sex

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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.

This book is a start....but with the advent of the internet, you can find much better (written, produced, looking, defined) material else where....

The author completely misses the 'non-mainstream' parts of the leather community..(bears, etc...)

Maybe a 3rd edition is in the works?

you can find better....

i juste loved this book. it gave me and my partner so many new ideas and things to try and really opened our minds to a whole new arena of pleasure. thank you!

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!

This book is pretty descriptive in all aspects, But the illistrations are poor.
If your curious about what it's like to be intimate with eachother, I would have to say, Shop around for a better book.

I'm not sure who this book was written for but even the most inexperienced gay man won't find it very informative or useful. It briefly covers a broad range of topics, many of which are vaguely related to sex and discussion of any of the truly useful topics is so limited and superficial it's not worth reading. The title sounds neat and the cover is pretty but otherwise forget it.

CHARLES, DR SILVERSTEIN, FELICE PICANO, AND DENNIS BUTCHART WROTE WHAT HAS NEVER BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE. INCLUDED IN THIS FABULOUS BOOK IS WONDERFUL ARTWORK BY SAM KADI DEPICTING NUMEROUS KAMA SUTRA RENDITIONS. MR KADI'S SEXUAL POSITION ARTWORK ALONE IS GREAT!!!!

-PATRICK

If you're gay.. You'll really love this book. Fellatio Piccasso is a very emotional person, and it shows in this fine literature. The only downside to this book, is the fact that there is not enough bisexual content. If you're into bi-sexuality, this book may not be for you. On the other hand, if you're purely gay, then this book is wonderful! It touches on the very fabric of homosexuality.

Fifty or five hundred years from now, some archeologist of knowledge will unearth "The New Joy of Gay Sex" and marvel at its utter weirdness. Its sequence of subjects (Fetish ... Fidelity ... Finding a Physician) will suggest authors who are either mad or possess a very dark sense of humor, while its illustrations will project a bestiary of beefy humanoids with remarkable tumescence. The archeologist will wonder: for what race of creatures could such a manual have been intended?

We don't have to wait to wonder. It's for us. Read it and shriek.

"The New Joy of Gay Sex" is not so much about enjoying gay sex as surviving it. Inevitably, the specter of acronyms casts a certain pall across once-joyful texts detailing the fine points of rimming, scat and glory holes. When the first "Joy of Gay Sex" appeared in 1977, the worst its readers had to fear was Anita Bryant and the purple prose of Edmund White. Now we need a degree in medical technology to make it to the second date.