D.O.C.: Lust Letters

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Summary: A cautionary tale about the darker side of love and sex
Review: For anyone whose thirst is quenched by lusty and rough-and-tumble man-to-man sex, "D.O.C.: Lust Letters" is a must-read for both its heavy-breathing sexual content and ingenious injection of words of caution about the darker side of gay sexual promiscuity. Authors Paul Beckford and Kevin Dax lay out in sexually stimulating honesty their cyperspace meeting via e-mail correspondence and their eventual slide into San Francisco's gay underground where safe sex (in a city devastated in the first of the two decades of AIDS) is moot, and participants basically take their chances playing Russian Roulette. That darker side of gay sex takes us back to old haunts some of us abandoned out of fear of anonymous and unprotected sex - in parks, bathhouses, sex clubs, et al. Along their way, Beckford and Dax come across an assortment of characters, from out-and-out flaming queens to the downrodden and weary non-queens who thirst for gay sex and risk literally all to get it. Reading like a compilation of e-mails, the book is both a seductive and appetizing odyssey of hot and bawdy man sex and, at the same time, a cautionary tale that begs us to keep a light on in our brains when we dare delve into the darker corners of love and sex. Really, this one is a must for any and all wanting either stimulating sex or a guide to safer avenues.

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Summary: A cautionary tale about the darker side of love and sex
Review: Seldom have e-mail messages been so entertaining, or so arousing. At a time when too many gays deny the sex in homosexuality, Paul Beckford and Kevin Dax remind us of what makes gay men gay. D.O.C. Lust Letters is the honest account of two sexually promiscuous men during the second decade of AIDS, and of the male sex drive that manifests itself in spite of all legal restrictions, society's disapproval, and deadly disease.

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Summary: Not for the squeamish.
Review: Seldom have e-mail messages been so entertaining, or so arousing. At a time when too many gays deny the sex in homosexuality, Paul Beckford and Kevin Dax remind us of what makes gay men gay. D.O.C. Lust Letters is the honest account of two sexually promiscuous men during the second decade of AIDS, and of the male sex drive that manifests itself in spite of all legal restrictions, society's disapproval, and deadly disease.