Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica

by Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel, Rainer Falk, et al.

Book Overview

An entertaining, explicit, and erotic anthology of short stories features writings about lesbians by gay men and tales about gay men written by lesbians and bisexual women, featuring works by D.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573440213
• ISBN13: 9781573440219
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Hot!

I thought this collection was hot, sexy and a real turn-on. I dug the fact that the pieces were purely imagination and, unlike another reviewer, found the lesbian stories just as sexy as the gay male stories. One bemusing trend in the lesbians-writing-gay-male-erotica was their common focus around HIV/AIDS and how that has affected the gay male community and their collective sex lives. Sure, I recognize the atrocities HIV/AIDS have embodied for so many people, but it's not something I really want to be reading about when I have my hands down my pants. Other than that, this collection is fun - I recommend it for anyone who likes bending gender/sexuality in their fantasies and/or realities.

Getting a rise out of Switch-Hitters

Switch-Hitters is a much needed creative twist in the realm of queer erotica and it gives some insight into how lesbians and gay men view eachother's sexuality. First and foremost, Switch-Hitters is hot. Queen and Schimel definitely took great care to put together an anothology of queer porn that rises above the typical porn anthologies that can be painful to read. These stories have both plots and steamy scenes that combine for excellent porn pleasure. For both gay male and lesbian porn, Switch-Hitters is an opportunity to infuse each with a bit of the other. Your typicaly lesbian porn anthology includes an unbelievable number of "we met in women's studies class" scenerios that end with removing eachother's flannel shirts. Gay male porn has an advantage of being far more widespread, but often uses the same types of scenerios over and over. Switch-Hitter's erotica breaks out of these molds as the writers try to envision what the opposite sex really finds hot (and presumably what the authors find hot about the opposite sex.)Of course, nothing is perfect. Switch-Hitters also provides a little insight into sexual stereotypes that lesbians and gay men have about eachother. In a few of the stories the characters remain pretty flat, which certainly detracts from their ability to turn readers on. Despite some of its flaws, this book belongs with some of porn's best.