Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power

by M. Christian

Introduction by Pat Califia A collection of gay erotic fiction that celebrates the darker side of desire by exploring the exchange, use and misuse of power. Going beyond, for example, the world of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555835201
• ISBN13: 9781555835200
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Alyson Books
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

very intresting book

I have ordered this book it has not come yet bot the cover alone love to meet that guy and most of all love his jock and one other thing I THINK I KNOW WHER THE BEEF IS HIDDEN AT love the boots as well

MEN ON MEN!

One of the hottest books I've read this year and I'm a hetro woman. Loved it!

Powerful stuff

A friend turned me on to Rough Stuff, and I was really glad he did. I'm hardly a hard-core SM guy, but I found almost all the stories in the book to be well-written, erotic, and challenging. It's perfect one-handed reading, while providing compelling stories of the wilder side of sex. Nice job.

Really great erotica

Rough Stuff may not be "the best gay male erotic anthology ever," as one review claims, but it sure is the finest SM-oriented collection I've read in a long, long time. Emphasizing the varieties of power over mere brute force, the stories are all well-written and sexy, some of them oddly romantic, others about as nasty as you'd want to get. When it comes to on-the-edge erotica, this book is state of the art.

hot stuff!

Rough Stuff is a collection of top-drawer SM erotica, which isn't surprising considering some of the well-known writers involved. What did - pleasantly - surprise me was the range of the book, in terms of both style and substance. Unlike a lot of SM porn, most of the characters in Rough Stuff are more than just one-dimensional sex machines. Even hard-core stories like "A Beating" and "The Endurance Game" have real depth, while some of my favorite stories, like "Whose Little Boy Are You?" and "Immigrant," are poignant as well as sexually hot. As with any anthology, some stories hit me harder than others, and there were a few too many twist endings for my taste. Minor quibbles aside though, this is a great collection, suitable bedtime reading for both the curious and the hard-core player alike.