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Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality Paperback – Deluxe Edition, October 8, 2002
Geoff Mains was a sweet, intelligent, articulate, and wonderful man who cared passionately about the leather community. He wanted to make sure that its accomplishments would be remembered and its wild beauty understood. Urban Aboriginals resulted from his love and is an enduring part of his legacy. It is a unique cultural study, and a priceless document of a now vanished time.
- Print length200 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDaedalus Publishing
- Publication dateOctober 8, 2002
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101881943186
- ISBN-13978-1881943181
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It is a unique cultural study, and a priceless document of a now vanished time. -- Gayle, Ph.D., author and anthropologist
Urban Aboriginals was way ahead of its time for clearly defining a significant transformation in Western Culture. -- Fakir Musafar, Father of the Modern Primitive Movement
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Mains settled in San Francisco upon completing his book. He spent the last few years of his life among a community he had boundless regard for, providing witness in a novel, Gentle Warriors. Soon after that work was done, Mains died of complications due to AIDS on June 21, 1989. Well over a decade later, Mains' writing continues to be cited by influencial sources, including The New York TImes, which quoted from his diary these poignant words about the plague's impact on the world he loved: "I stand, uncertain....The pst that I beleived in, the times I lived for, are gone."
Urban Aboriginals lived on, however, through a second edition and a whole new generation of appreciative readers. Main's message, enhanced by photographer Robert Pruzan's powerful images, continued to enlighten and affirm an ever-loving tribe of "modern primitives." Now some years out of print, the book is being circulated again.
With original plates and negatives long gone, piecing the book back to its original form has entailed an act of literary archeology. Appropriately enough, ;proceeds from this new edition will help preserve thelife work of Mains and Pruzan (who also died of AIDS), now permanently archived at the San Francisco Bay Area Gay & Lesbian Historical Society. A sincere word of thanks is also due to the book's original publisher, Winston Leyland, who graciously consented to its revival.
Many urban aboriginals everywhere continue to value and learn from these brave and visionary pages. -Mark Thompson
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- Publisher : Daedalus Publishing; 3rd ed. edition (October 8, 2002)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 200 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1881943186
- ISBN-13 : 978-1881943181
- Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,458,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,845 in Psychology & Counseling Books on Sexuality
- #2,411 in LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies
- #4,537 in Sex & Sexuality
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Throughout his book, Mains switches between describing the personal narratives of two young men and describing the leather culture from an outside perspective. This constant switching between the two points of view may initially be confusing, but in the end I believe it allows the reader to better understand the culture as a whole. The personal story portion really serves to help the reader imagine and visualize what it is like to be a part of the leather scene; from detailed accounts of erotic encounters to crystal clear narrations of social gatherings, Mains describes the scene in great detail. He then proceeds to explain, from a broader perspective, why such things occur and clarifies any questions or doubts that the reader might have. For the more science-oriented, Mains also explains and justifies many leather practices by explaining the process of endorphin release, etc.
While slightly graphic and biased towards the leather scene, Urban Aboriginals by Geoff Mains is an excellent read. I would recommend this book to anyone who is even remotely interested in alternative sexual cultures, for Mains very effectively portrays the leather culture through personal and broad perspectives. I walked away from this book with a far deeper understanding of the leather scene.






