I bought this book as a college student just coming out, and still have my worn and faded copy of the first edition more than twenty years later. It was a great revelation and comfort to me--first for its sensible how-to advice about sex, second for the whimsical line drawings that made gay sex seem not only normal but downright fun, third for the inserted section of beautiful, sexy photographs of men loving men (way before Tom Bianchi and company), and fourth and most importantly, for the way Mitch Walker conveyed the spiritual side of sex--a lesson I've often flouted, alas, but never quite forgotten.
I haven't seen this reprint, but assume that the advice has been updated with the requisite information and warnings about safer sex and AIDS, sadly necessary now in any manual of this sort. I hope the illustrations and photographs have been kept, though they may have fallen victim to changing standards of male attractiveness--when, oh when, is facial hair going to come back in style?? Anyway, I'm glad it's available again and would recommend it highly to any gay man, and especially to men just coming out and exploring their sexuality. May it help them as it helped me.
