The Essence of Being Gay

The Essence of Being Gay

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In this totally-revised, fully-illustrated version of the 2017 The Essence of Being Gay I propose in this book is a free-flow of information, founded on the shared love of boys and men, from the most heroic to the most erotic, à bâtons rompus, as the French say. The Essence of Being Gay covers everything from infibulations--Greek boys who tied their foreskins shut--to studies into the causes of homosexuality, even if the foremost psychiatrist, Freud, stated that it was the enigma of his life of research. It encompasses homosexuality in artists and kings, writers and rent-boys. It touches on virility throughout the ages, mutual pleasuring, penis size [with a chapter on how to lengthen the beast] and menswear--from codpieces to jockstraps. It extends from the hallowed Greeks [Marathon, Thermopylae, the Sacred Band] to pre-W.W. II Berlin, the never-equaled prostitution capital of the world, ending in today’s Bel Ami, the apogee in boy eroticism. Included are scenes from the first frankly homosexual book, Alcibiades the Schoolboy, 1630, to the filming of present pornographic masterpieces.It’s been a bumpy road from the purity of Achilles and Patroclus, Alexander the Great and Hephaestion, to the painted faces of Rome where a naked emperor, Elagabalus, stalked well-endowed sailors and castrated catamites. But infinitely more numerous than Middle-Ages burnings at the stake and death in Nazi pink-triangle camps, are the countless untold stories of simple encounters, of first kisses and sighs, first vows and first bliss, of candle-lit meals between lovers, reflected in the eyes of he who literally takes your breath away. And the greatest happiness of all, returning home to a warm boy in an open bed, a lad waiting your arrival, anonymous to the world, but the entire world to you. This, too, Greeks and Romans, Florentines and Stonewall New Yorkers knew--for this is eternal.
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Dimensions: 15.24 x 1.37 x 22.86 cm
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 237 pages
  • Item weight: 422 g
  • Book Type: Paperback
  • ISBN-10: 1515262529
  • ISBN-13: 978-1515262527
  • Publication date: 30 July 2015
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