Review
...an anthology about ... young guys, many of whom offer their sexual services for a fee. Been there, done that concerns the exploits of Ty Jackson, a hustler who eventually hooks up with ... a former hustler gone to seed.... Black and Blue ... features another hustler-on-hustler encounter ... and the story becomes heavy with S&M.... Performing Arts succeeds as a nice combination of eroticism and characterization, revealing the inner insecurities of young movie star Parker Crayne. Play It Again, Sam, which initially looks like it's chronicling a rape in Boyland Park, has an interesting twist ending, and Poet-Voyeur, a metered account of a night in this cruise haven, works as an example of erotic poetry. And the final story, Opportunity Knocks, concerns Brad, top gymnast at his high-school, and what lengths his nearest competitor ... will go to in order to get the #1 team position.... -- Bay Windows, Volume 16 / Number 41, 1 October - 7 October 1998 issue
A collection of six provocative tales by Cort Forbes, this book depicts various activities in Boyland Park, a steamy stomping ground for public sex and furtive pick-ups. The emphasis is on the intensity and diversity of the sex acts portrayed (all safe, by the way) rather than on plot or character development. ...the author does a good job combining the realism of the cruising arena with arousing fantasy. -- Beau, Volume 10 / Number 2, October 1998
Been there. Done that. And no one better and more realistically chronicles the after-dark park scene than Mr. Forbes does. This book a must read for any of us who ever dared risk it all in parkland darkness -- Raymond Lange, author, Young Men of the Night
A collection of six provocative tales by Cort Forbes, this book depicts various activities in Boyland Park, a steamy stomping ground for public sex and furtive pick-ups. The emphasis is on the intensity and diversity of the sex acts portrayed (all safe, by the way) rather than on plot or character development. ...the author does a good job combining the realism of the cruising arena with arousing fantasy. -- Beau, Volume 10 / Number 2, October 1998
Been there. Done that. And no one better and more realistically chronicles the after-dark park scene than Mr. Forbes does. This book a must read for any of us who ever dared risk it all in parkland darkness -- Raymond Lange, author, Young Men of the Night
From the Author
When I was young, there was just such a park as Boyland not far from where I lived. While we kids spent many daylight hours in the park, playing ball, kick-the-can and tag, throwing Frisbies, having picnics, using the swings and slides, there was an unspoken rule that none of us was to go into the park after dark. Because our parents insinuated that after dark our daytime playground became a place of murders, rapes, muggings, molestations, and other things. Of course, despite all the warnings, maybe because of them, I eventually made it into that park, and into various other parks, after dark, to discover that my parents were right. At night, parks are often the scenes of murders, rapes, molestations, muggings. But those other things that occur, often fun and exciting things, can be made even more fun and exciting by the aphrodisiac offered by the merest prospect of dangers lurking in the shadowy blackness on each and every side. The purpose of this book is merely to shine a bit of illumination upon a slice of life more often than not completely shrouded within the darkness that exists within those many mazes of city parklands once the sun goes down. Been There, Done That Black and Blue Performing Arts Play It Again, Sam Poet-Voyeur When Opportunity Knocks
