Roughed Up : More Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power

Rating:
Summary: Ick
Review: Simon Sheppard and M. Christian return again with this collection of 18 stories from 18 different authors that feature heavy duty erotica. These breath-quickening tales showcase the dark side of what happens when gay men go far beyond the boundaries of the conventional and explore our dark edges of lust, revenge, love and POWER. Not a typical collection of S/M tales, in fact, I don't think I would apply that label to any of these stories. These pieces explore the depraved, dirty and dwonright mean parts of the gay male pysche, both from the torturer's side as well as the victim's. Haunting is the tale by B.J. Barrios, Destroying Master Michael, which is the book's opener. As the stories progress through horehound stillpoint's Top to Bottom, Karl von Uhl's Pigs and Thomas S. Roche's, Twice the Suck, you'll disocver that you are most likely holding one of the best male erotic anthologies ever put together, a certainly one of the finest still in print. You'll wonder what is real and what is fiction, and what the hell kind of diseased imagination that we gay men have!

Rating:
Summary: Something Beyond the Usual
Review: Simon Sheppard and M. Christian return again with this collection of 18 stories from 18 different authors that feature heavy duty erotica. These breath-quickening tales showcase the dark side of what happens when gay men go far beyond the boundaries of the conventional and explore our dark edges of lust, revenge, love and POWER. Not a typical collection of S/M tales, in fact, I don't think I would apply that label to any of these stories. These pieces explore the depraved, dirty and dwonright mean parts of the gay male pysche, both from the torturer's side as well as the victim's. Haunting is the tale by B.J. Barrios, Destroying Master Michael, which is the book's opener. As the stories progress through horehound stillpoint's Top to Bottom, Karl von Uhl's Pigs and Thomas S. Roche's, Twice the Suck, you'll disocver that you are most likely holding one of the best male erotic anthologies ever put together, a certainly one of the finest still in print. You'll wonder what is real and what is fiction, and what the hell kind of diseased imagination that we gay men have!

Rating:
Summary: Ick
Review: You know for S/m it was a wonderfully done book and all but...it's written too darkly. Which sometimes is a good thing. But I think that erotica should have an air of lightness to them. If you like despair and no hope of happiness, or like people getting brutalized then this gem/coal lump is for you.

Remember, well written. But bad form. Bad bad form.