A collection of fables and memoirs by America's foremost erotic writer does for our era what Boccaccio, Swift, and Balzac did for theirs--exposes the human animal in all its absurdity. Vassi takes erotic writing to its extremes and then further, unraveling the seams of our most secret fantasies. His subjects are radical lesbians, male supremacists, transsexuals, establishment normals, therapists, revolutionaries, gynecologists, gurus and even God--created in Vassi's own image, of course--all of whom are reduced to the ridiculous in a shower of bawdy laughter. Capturing the sizzling vitality of the erotic upheaval of his age while also grasping its peculiar pretensions, he creates a gallery of unforgettable characters who are only ourselves become somehow larger than life. As with other great humorists, Vassi has a serious purpose: to explode the prevailing myths so the reader is forced to respond to his or her eroticism with unprogrammed intelligence. When everything from monogamy to coprophilia is presented from the perspective of the cosmic horse-laugh, no one can avoid finding their own role in the human comedy.
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A sexual prophet.....WAY ahead of his time.,
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This review is from: The Erotic Comedies (Hardcover)
Marco Vassi, who died of AIDS in 1989, was/is the most important sexual philosopher of the last 25 years. The Eroic Comedies -- a newly edited version of his previously released "Metasex Manifesto" -- is a collection of short stories and essays unlike you've ever read. (Unfortunately, a short story called "Pray On Me" from the original was not inlcuded, no doubt because it was so politically incorrect it would have certainly been denounced by the Vatican.) Nonetheless, a story entitled "The Organic Copraphiliac" remains. It is an erotic classic that 25 years later still leaves readers speechless or convulsed in laughter. There are also essays expanding on his philosophy of "meta-sexuality" (not straight, not gay, not bi) and argues for a better understanding of the human spirit and human sexuality, overall. Vasi's coolest book.
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By roger wood (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Erotic Comedies (Hardcover)
Mr Vassi spends the second half of this book praising American bathhouse culture, and telling how being half drowned in excrement and sperm leads to the ultimate intellectual and political freedom. A few years later he was dead of Aids. What sort of freedom is that? And how many half-witted thrill seekers who were persuaded by his so-called philosophical brilliance paid the same dreadful price?
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