Review
. . . a perversely potent queer erotic thesaurus. This is a fun book, but it can also be seen as a historical document. This is the evidence of queer sexual history.
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Trade: Queer Things (
Trade: Queer Things )
...clever and funny...
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Time Out London (
Time Out London )
Pick up
Outbursts! and give your hands something constructive to do for a change.
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Dallas Voice (
Dallas Voice )
Amusing, informative, enlightening... Ample fodder to enliven your Ph.D. thesis or resume.
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Lavender Magazine (
Lavender )
Even a long review cannot do justice to this intriguing reference book.
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Bluefood (
Jean Roberta )
Outbursts contextualizes both historical and contemporary terminology for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals, and offers nine full pages of terms for gay males—from "anal buccaneer" to "zebrajox"!
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My Messy Bedroom (
My Messy Bedroom )
Remember being excited as a child each time a new sex-related word entered into your vocabulary? Relive that titilating experience while at the same time broadening your sexual knowledge by reading this book.
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The Link (
The Link )
...a very entertaining, well-researched little guide.
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Xtra! Magazine (
Xtra! )
...Peterkin's salaciously erudite
Outbursts is more than a sniggering collection of slangy definitions.... It's also a work of queer historical empowerment.
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Bookmarks (Richard Labonte
Bookmarks )
...provides a source for pornographers—indeed all writers with a sense of humour—to vary their limited and predictable dialogue when it comes to the old ins and outs.
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Frontiers Magazine (
Frontiers )
...Peterkin is delving even further into language that would make Roger blush in public...
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Monday Magazine (
Monday Magazine )
It's pleasing that the last word in this hot little dictionary is "voyeur". What could be more apt for our relationship to this book . . .? We're take a peep at somebody else's way of, well, taking a peek.
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New Pages (
New Pages )
From the Author
While Peterkin has fun with witty quips from poets, playrights, philosophers, and theologians through the centuries, he is also quite serious and instructive. . . -ForeWord
