Best Gay Erotica

by Emanuel Xavier

Rough and surly, smooth and sultry, or quick and raw - whatever readers fancy, it can be found within the pages of Cleis' new edition of its bestselling gay erotica series. Edited by famed author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573443018
• ISBN13: 9781573443012
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Give it up, Cougar

Dear Cougar, As one of the contributing writers to Best Gay Erotica 2008, I am humored by your puritanical stance on what is known as the best gay erotica collection in contemporary gay men's lit--and for a reason--its EDGE. If candlelight suppers and boxes of chocolate are what you seek in sexual writing, I suggest you check out one of the numerous "gay romance" titles that are sweeping the market these days. I read the entire aforementioned collection--and as a reader--was not put off by these loaded criteria you listed. Things that are not permissible in "real life" have the opportunity to exist in literature for a reason--it's only writing. You strike me as a grudging assimilationist type and if you--as you mentioned--refuse to check out anything from these editors in the future, your exposure to renegade gay literary culture will suffer. I suspect, however, that you are trying to tango in a mosh pit and should keep your incendiary, clean-butt, evangelical criticism where it belongs--with you. Meanwhile, the rest of us will revel in our artistic freedom as unapologetic queers. Charlie Vazquez, NYC