Best Gay Erotica 2004 (Best Gay Erotica Series) Review
I'd venture that this year's "Best Gay Erotica" is one of the best collections of erotica that I've read, and perhaps my favourite in the series to date. And I've read a lot of them.
You'd think that an anthology about gay sex would be mostly about fantasy (and there is a lovely fantasy story this year about the power to stop time...) but I think what I like most about this collection is the reality. Objects of attraction are hairy guys (lots of `em); bears (quite a few); young studs; a bisexual married man, older men (than the narrators); and older men in general. There's a whole ton of sweaty humping, a bit of oral, some role-playing, powerfully written S&M, protected and unprotected sex, and drug-taking. There's joy and reflection, nostalgia, and quite a bit of hard reality. There's eroticism found in hard-luck stories, a history of a tattoo, and confession. These are real stories about real men having real sex. Good for us.
I'm impressed that the editors, Kirk Read and Richard Labonté managed to put together a collection where I liked every story - and more so, was surprised by each of them: their tenderness, despair, joy, quirkiness, hardness, sweetness and reality. Think I'm gushing a little too much? Buy a copy yourself, and you'll see. I dare you.
Best Gay Erotica 2004 (Best Gay Erotica Series) Overview
Best Gay Erotica 2004 captures the hottest, freshest stories of man-on-man desire by the most cutting-edge writers of gay erotica today. The 2004 edition features stories selected by Kirk Read, author of the wildly popular memoir How I Learned to Snap, one of the most engaging gay coming-of-age stories published in recent years.
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