Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, Second Edition [Paperback]

Jack Hart (Author), Kent (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

An accurate, informative, illustrated, and humorous guide to gay sex.

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We live in a world obsessed with (and appalled by) sex. Open any magazine--certainly any gay male magazine--and you will find it clogged with sexualized images. But a fundamental, hardcore American puritanism still prevents open, honest, and useful discussions of sexuality. While this is true for heterosexuality, it is even more so for gay men and lesbians. Jack Hart's Gay Sex is a fine, witty, and eminently reasonable guide to being a sexually active gay man in the world today. Like Felice Picano and Charles Silverstein's The New Joy of Gay Sex (a classic in the field), Hart's book is an all-purpose guide to living a sexually energetic and fulfilling life. Gay Sex gives gay men all they need to know, from tips on how to meet men (in bars, on the Net, in the street) to negotiating safe sex (from talking to finding the right condom) to dealing with relationships (be it sex-buddy or monogamous). There are also discussions on the mental-health aspects of masturbation, fantasy, dating, bondage, S/M, recreational drugs, role-playing, and general physical well-being. Hart's writing is clear, concise, and informative; he never overloads the reader with too much scientific information or confusing detail and never adopts a patronizing or moralizing tone. By treating sex as a vital and exhilarating aspect of everyday life, he manages to both introduce these topics to the novice in unthreatening and helpful ways and inform and enlighten those who have been out and about for years. --Michael Bronski

About the Author

Jack Hart's first book was the best-selling Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men. Since then he has edited several erotica series, including My First Time, Straight, and Twink. He most recently edited the pirate erotica collection Treasure Trail.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Alyson Books; Revised 2nd edition (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155583468X
• ISBN-13: 978-1555834685
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,076,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's a Glossary, Not a Manual, August 23, 2000

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This review is from: Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, Second Edition (Paperback)

This book is good for understanding various aspects of gay sex from the vanilla to the kinky to safety. The title is a bit deciving though. A manual implies it shows one how to have sex (such as "The Ultimate Sex Book" for heterosexuals).

A lot of this stuff can be found by searching the internet on various sexual and health related sites out there.

The book does go indepth with some topics giving graphic and visual descriptions of various acts that might help the novice, but a veteran to Gay sex would not really benefit from this book as will those who do not have access to the Internet to get this information.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Breaks no new ground. Look elsewhere, April 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, Second Edition (Paperback)

A pretty dumbed down version of "being gay." Not so much a sexual manual, per se, as a handbook for those who need definitions of things like "bars" and "genitals." Breaks no new ground, and you;d be much better off with the better written, better illustrated, and more comprehensive "New Joy of Gay Sex."

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some good ideas & "straight" advice, January 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, Second Edition (Paperback)

I found this book interesting and a source of some ideas. The drawings were good and the discussion frank, noncritical and useful. The advice was helpful too, in meeting other guys and figuring out how to try some things for fun. I don't know what one of the reviewers was "shocked" about - the book is about gay sex, so naturally that's what it describes - and well depicted too. Enjoy, especially if you're new to the scene.