Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present

Rating:
Summary: Great Sex !
Review: A word to describe this book? "Remarkable." One of the few books that after I started it, I looked forward to reading everyday because in my opinion, it says so much. While I have read several books on gay studies for my graduate work this is one that truly makes a difference. Author Douglas Sadownick has wrote a book that gets to the heart of gay studies because it tells the history of gay male culture from a sexual perspective. Too many books in the gay studies arena avoid it or talk around it. Sadownick begins by tracing the beginnings of gay culture back after World War II in the late 40's/early 50's, the liberating 60's, the "feel good, party days" of the 70's, the sobering 80's due to the AIDS crisis, to the mid 90's the signifies a return to sex and the introduction of crystal meth to give gay men a new thrill, while a portion of the gay community dares to ask and show that "there is something more"
I also applaud Mr. Sadownick for identifying some spiritual perspectives, many of them rooted in new age and new thought, that are again, often ignored in other works.
In conclusion, I have no idea what this book's original publication did in terms of sales or public interest having discovered this book 7 years after its initial run. However, this is a book that I would gladly pay full price for if Mr. Sadownick would revise a second edition. (hopefully by 2006, 10 years after the initial publication). This way he could write on the recent 2003 Supreme Court ruling on Sodomy that has had several ripple effects and shockwaves on many people regardless of their political beliefs. I will definitely look for more future works by this author.

Rating:
Summary: Great Sex !
Review: A word to describe this book? "Remarkable." One of the few books that after I started it, I looked forward to reading everyday because in my opinion, it says so much. While I have read several books on gay studies for my graduate work this is one that truly makes a difference. Author Douglas Sadownick has wrote a book that gets to the heart of gay studies because it tells the history of gay male culture from a sexual perspective. Too many books in the gay studies arena avoid it or talk around it. Sadownick begins by tracing the beginnings of gay culture back after World War II in the late 40's/early 50's, the liberating 60's, the "feel good, party days" of the 70's, the sobering 80's due to the AIDS crisis, to the mid 90's the signifies a return to sex and the introduction of crystal meth to give gay men a new thrill, while a portion of the gay community dares to ask and show that "there is something more"
I also applaud Mr. Sadownick for identifying some spiritual perspectives, many of them rooted in new age and new thought, that are again, often ignored in other works.
In conclusion, I have no idea what this book's original publication did in terms of sales or public interest having discovered this book 7 years after its initial run. However, this is a book that I would gladly pay full price for if Mr. Sadownick would revise a second edition. (hopefully by 2006, 10 years after the initial publication). This way he could write on the recent 2003 Supreme Court ruling on Sodomy that has had several ripple effects and shockwaves on many people regardless of their political beliefs. I will definitely look for more future works by this author.

Rating:
Summary: West Hollywood Space Oddity
Review: According to Sadownick, all gay men, without exception, are "female spirits inhabiting male bodies." In his eyes, every "authentic homosexual" that has ever lived is a spiritual replicant of Douglas Sadownick.

A gay ghetto outlook taken to an almost science fiction extreme.