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The Erotic Comedies

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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.

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?