Scott and Deb head off to a remote, unspoiled campground with their friends Mark and Linda. They meet two other couples there, one older, the other featuring a macho jerk and his seemingly beaten-down wife Nikki. Skinny-dipping and then casual nudity transpire. Scott is dismayed when his wife takes a shine to the jerk, Logan, and then boldly F’s him in the middle of the night.
Matters evolve when a gay couple, the handsome and built Hans and Ernst, join the others, as Scott and Deb grapple with the aftermath of her infidelity. The direction affairs take over the next few days is topsy-turvy, with surprising twists. The book was more homoerotic than I prefer.
Murphy sets the gay men up as relationship heroes, wiser to the nature of human sexuality than mere heterosexual mortals and willing to shepherd Scott through the rough marital patch he’s going through. He meanwhile watches what happens with other couples - the older pair rediscovering their sexuality, Mark confiding to Scott some of his fantasies about watching Linda, how Nikki puts up with Logan and gets hers as well.
Spoiler alert. Don’t go past here if you haven’t already read it.
The gay couple coming on to Scott was somewhat plausible as was Scott’s bi-curiousness. Less so was their willingness to serve as studs for the women, who ooh and aah over their bodies, and the assertion that they’re not completely gay.
People may be attracted to both sexes, but usually the argument in favor of regarding gays as a protected class is that they were born that way, that being straight is much easier, and that if they could have been, they would have been. Hans and Ernst go against that. If they are so capable of satisfying the ladies, and if society is so deeply hateful towards gays, then why didn’t each choose to live a straight life, reserving their taste for other men as an enjoyable and private kink?
I’m also puzzled by the amount which male homoerotic exploration is cropping up nowadays in straight porn. I see it more often with women writers - Murphy here, Mia Moore and a couple of others. I know, I know, men love the lesbo scenes, what’s sauce for the goose, etc., but I don’t think women writers get how deeply most straight men are repelled by the idea. Progressive women may regard men as scary, hate-filled Republicans until proven gay or Communist.
I will give Murphy credit, though, for writing a fairly fresh perspective. When the gay couple showed up, I had no idea what would happen, and she puts them to good use.
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