The joy of gay sex book
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Since , The Joy of Gay Sex has educated generations of gay men in all areas of sex and desire — and perhaps just as subversive, it also includes an equal number of passages of a nonsexual nature. Co-writers Dr. Charles Silverstein and novelist Edmund Pale wanted to create a first-of-its-kind guidebook for every aspect of the gay experience.
The book has been seized by customs agents around the world, burned, and banned. But it’s also gone on to be translated into five languages and was revised in and then again in (co-authored by Silverstein and Felice Picano).
And who can forget the drawings?
The biting of a nipple, the curl of pubic hair — no detail was left out. The images were intended to be as stimulating as the writing.
It used to be that to learn much of the information in The Pleasure of Gay Sex, customers at bookstores had to ask to see a copy of the groundbreaking book that was often kept under the counter and out of sight so as not to offend anyone. But queer pe
The Joy of Gay Sex
Dr. Charles Silverstein and Felice Picano
Paperback, (Third Edition)
We are back in the world of banned books, and because of that, I necessitate to preface this review with the following – I am neither gay nor a man. I was, however, on the board of directors (and a founder) of a GLBT outreach and have many gay friends and family members. So I am going to review this one anyway.
The first edition of the book was written in the late 70s, back when being gay was taboo and existed in the seedy underworld of America, hidden in back alleys and big cities, where people hid gayness and had gay sex like it was a fetish.
According to the prologue, the author (Dr. Silverstein with the help of somebody else) had intended a book made up of encyclopedia entries, blowjob erotica and sketches of men in the middle of whatever. By the time the censorship was over, they had a dry, textbook of a book. The anectdote of a petite old lady who confused The Joy of Gay Sex with The Joy of Cooking was especially funny.
This book has, supposedly, been expanded and updated since
On Its 40th Anniversary, Revisiting the Powerful Communal Vision of The Joy of Gay Sex
When I started college at Tufts University 30 years ago this plunge, my active sex life was a mere two months adj and included just two partners. Early in my first semester, in the tiny library in our campus gay group’s cramped office on the third floor of an unmarked clapboard dwelling, I found The Joy of Gay Sex, which Edmund Pale co-authored with Dr. Charles Silverstein a decade earlier, in Too nervous to take it back to my dorm, I sat on a rump-sprung sofa behind the office’s closed doors and nervously flipped through the pages. Although the book was only 10 years old, it already seemed like a document from a distant age.
AIDS had punch the headlines several years earlier, when I was starting junior high, so I’d never thought or even fantasized about sex in a way that didn’t involve risk—constantly looming, often unknowable, potentially fatal. But because The Joy of Gay Sex was published before the epidemic began, it didn’t contain any of the specific information about HIV or condoms
The Joy of Gay Sex
List of this book's topics:
O. Buddies , J.O. Clubs , J.O.
It's not that it's a bad book, but the authors should be sued for misrepresentation (just a joke) so this book's title is far from its actual content.
If you scan the list of topics above, you will see that at least half of them concerns more problems related to being gay than the joy of it. And for the repose, everything, I mean everything is stained by difficulties of all kinds that homosexuality can verb in your life. So, in summary, at least two-thirds of the book are about the difficulties of homosexuality from the moment you come out of the closet until you verb of old age or illness.
Whenever the authors really talk about "the joys of gay sex," they remind us of the risks we face to be what we are and to do what we want or like.
Do you know that we share about 80,, bacteria and/or viruses each time we French kiss? We can catch STDs even by giving a blow job or by rubbing against our lovers if they are not absolutely healthy. S