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Summary: Should be on every gay man's bookshelf!
Review: Living Well does an excellent job of covering nearly everything imaginable related to gay health. From HIV to STDs to piercings to drugs Peter explains the facts (including recent new findings), his experience and those of his patients. Everything is presented in a very open, and objective way. He's amazingly non-judgmental but not afraid to speak out against the establishment (i.e. health insurance and the pharmaceutical companies) in a few areas.I think it's rare that someone with so much real world experience in gay male healthcare takes the time to share his vast knowledge with the rest of the world. It's even better that he's done so in such a friendly, open, easy-to-read manner. This book is a must have for gay men!
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Summary: The best general purpose guide for men
Review: There are a slew of health books currently on the market aimed at gay men and this is by far the best of the lot. Stephen Goldstone's "The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex" is decent but overly clinical, exhaustively detailed and colored by the authors own personal sexual peccadillos. Goldstone explains that men are naturally non-monogomous and recommends scubbing oneself clean after every act of intercourse. Advice for the promiscuous out there I suppose (and mabye I am misunderstanding that books intended audience) but not very practical or mentally-healthy for anyone in a committed relationship. Daniel Wolfe's "Men Like Us" is a better book but somewhat unwieldly in the sheer amount of information contained in it, much of which will be superfluous to any one guy. Like Goldstone's book it's also a bit colored by the author's own personal attitudes. "Living Well" strikes just the right balance, covering all of the necessary bases one might want to reference in a straight-forward, non-biaised way. Includes chapters on sexuality, mental health, death and dying and medical legal issues. I also recommend recent titles by Tony Palermo and Eric Marcus.
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Summary: The best general purpose guide for men
Review: There are a slew of health books currently on the market aimed at gay men and this is by far the best of the lot. Stephen Goldstone's "The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex" is decent but overly clinical, exhaustively detailed and colored by the authors own personal sexual peccadillos. Goldstone explains that men are naturally non-monogomous and recommends scubbing oneself clean after every act of intercourse. Advice for the promiscuous out there I suppose (and mabye I am misunderstanding that books intended audience) but not very practical or mentally-healthy for anyone in a committed relationship. Daniel Wolfe's "Men Like Us" is a better book but somewhat unwieldly in the sheer amount of information contained in it, much of which will be superfluous to any one guy. Like Goldstone's book it's also a bit colored by the author's own personal attitudes. "Living Well" strikes just the right balance, covering all of the necessary bases one might want to reference in a straight-forward, non-biaised way. Includes chapters on sexuality, mental health, death and dying and medical legal issues. I also recommend recent titles by Tony Palermo and Eric Marcus.
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Summary: Buy this book if you care about yourself
Review: Very good, thorough, non-technical book, written in a conversational style that's easy to understand yet explains everything carefully without condescending to the reader. This book is much more up-to-date than many others of its type because it addresses the current fads (oops, newly popular lifestyles) of tattoos, piercing, and other types of body modification and has a frank and unbiased discussion of various sexual practices and a good unhysterical overview of the various drugs popular in the gay community. This is the book that "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask" (ugh! what an offensive piece of garbage even in its revised edition!) should have been.
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