This has been sitting on my shelf for almost three years ever since I read the Rolling Stones’ article “How One Publisher is Rescuing 1970s Gay Porn Paperbacks”. I finally got around to this as I was looking at the shorter books already on my shelves. And after the emotional drain that was Ethan Frome I thought I should try and get a little further away and a smutty gay porn novel from the 1960s checked all the boxes plus some.
Let’s just say, not a lot has changed in erotica novels. I mean sure the large portion of MM romance/erotica novels are now written by women, but the few that I know for a fact were written by men are pretty damn similar to this one. The big things that have changed is that in general the toxic masculinity and hetero-toxicity in general seem to have been tone down in the more recent books and there are some overt racist scenes and comments sprinkled throughout the novel that were horrible.
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I wasn’t obsessively looking forward to this since I had issues with my timing of reading the first two volumes, but when I went to grab 
I’m not sure how I stumbled across this one, but when I did 
This one was pretty forgettable for me, which is sad because it’s actually a good book. I think the problem is that I read 
I discovered Linda Holmes years ago when I started listening to NPR’s