The X-Rated Gay Video Guide

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Summary: Dont waste your money
Review: As one of the producers who had video reviewed in this book I can only say that the information regarding too many video is false and inaccurate. My Video "stop in the name of sex" is described as being composed of outakes from something called "The Playground" which accidently was shot at the same location as 'Stop" but a couple of weeks later. "Stop in the name of sex" is shot all on location and is one of my best videos if not the best one.Besides Chronologicaly it was shot way before "The Playground". Well I suggest the writer of this book gets his facts straight before going public with this kind of false info. This book is not objective and fair but patronizing to some directors and puts down whoever the writer was not fond of. "moon over Bangkok" suffers from simillar inaccuracies. OH well , too bad this book was not printed on softer paper, you would know exactly what to do with it.

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Summary: A GREAT book for those who want facts NOT photos!
Review: This book was the first of it's kind when it was first published back in 1997 and it is still a great resource book for true conosuers of gay adult video product. If you are familiar with Leonard Maltin's annual Movie & Video Guide then you will recognize this book's format imeadiately. Sabin has done a competent job with a no-nonsense approach to arranging these reviews and having them rated in a clear and consice rating system that anyone can understand. Video companies and the porn stars themselves are praised or critisized equally throughtout the entire volume. The various reviews are competitent (one of them was a porn star himself) and written with a very studious and yet entertaining style. Since there are no photos inside it was sold in national bookstore chains like Bretanos and at Virgin megastores. This resource book took a serious approch to it's subject manner and was clearly designed to be a resource book -- not an erotic picture book! It is unfortunate that they stopped publishing it with this single volume. It would've been nice to see the product reviews extended beyond 1996 when it was first written. The previous negative review for this book was very unfair since it was written by a disgruntled film maker whose video got a poor review. Don't let one uhappy film maker turn you off from getting a very factual and useful resource book about gay adult videos. As a guy who is still in the closet it has been especially useful to me since I am not "out." I reccomend it highly!