D.O.C.: Lust Letters [Paperback]

Paul Beckford (Author), Kevin Dax (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 2001

By turns shocking and sensual, D.O.C.: Lust Letters explores the real-life romance of two men that begins in cyberspace and proceeds into the wild San Francisco gay sex scene of the late 1990s. The book, written in the form of email exchanges between Paul and Kevin, takes the reader deep inside gay erotic haunts, from underground sex clubs and bathhouses to parks and highway rest stops. It candidly explores the writers’ passion for multiple partners and their indifference to health issues. Twenty years into a world with AIDS, some gay men are declaring that sex with condoms is not the only way. A memorably diverse cast of characters — from bi pierced punks to buff go-go boys to shy married men — populate this unapologetic paean to a world weary of safe sex.

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Green Candy Press (October 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931160031
• ISBN-13: 978-1931160032
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,608,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the squeamish., June 11, 2002

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Jesse Monteagudo "book nook" (Plantation, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
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Seldom have e-mail messages been so entertaining, or so arousing. At a time when too many gays deny the sex in homosexuality, Paul Beckford and Kevin Dax remind us of what makes gay men gay. D.O.C. Lust Letters is the honest account of two sexually promiscuous men during the second decade of AIDS, and of the male sex drive that manifests itself in spite of all legal restrictions, society's disapproval, and deadly disease.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A cautionary tale about the darker side of love and sex, February 14, 2003

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For anyone whose thirst is quenched by lusty and rough-and-tumble man-to-man sex, "D.O.C.: Lust Letters" is a must-read for both its heavy-breathing sexual content and ingenious injection of words of caution about the darker side of gay sexual promiscuity. Authors Paul Beckford and Kevin Dax lay out in sexually stimulating honesty their cyperspace meeting via e-mail correspondence and their eventual slide into San Francisco's gay underground where safe sex (in a city devastated in the first of the two decades of AIDS) is moot, and participants basically take their chances playing Russian Roulette. That darker side of gay sex takes us back to old haunts some of us abandoned out of fear of anonymous and unprotected sex - in parks, bathhouses, sex clubs, et al. Along their way, Beckford and Dax come across an assortment of characters, from out-and-out flaming queens to the downrodden and weary non-queens who thirst for gay sex and risk literally all to get it. Reading like a compilation of e-mails, the book is both a seductive and appetizing odyssey of hot and bawdy man sex and, at the same time, a cautionary tale that begs us to keep a light on in our brains when we dare delve into the darker corners of love and sex. Really, this one is a must for any and all wanting either stimulating sex or a guide to safer avenues.

2.0 out of 5 stars Disgusting, May 1, 2009

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So. Calif book reader "readalot" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This book is digusting. One of the reviewers says "this is what makes gay men gay". Ay mi Dios! It's more like "this is why society hates us". Two men with no restraint or reserve, who will do anybody anywhere. The weirder or kinkier the better. Out in public, no concern for their HIV+ status.

It is scary to think that some gay men operate this way. I could barely finish the book did but and will now throw in the trash as I don't want anyone else to read this.