Skin & Ink: Gay Erotic Fiction

by Jim Gladstone

James Currier, Michael Jensen, Trebor Healey, Greg Wharton, Simon Sheppard and Kelly MaQuain are but a handful of the contributors to this unusual and stimulating collection of erotic stories... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555838456
• ISBN13: 9781555838454
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Alyson Books
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Giving Many the Needle

,With something over thirty percent of American Males now bearing a tattoo, there had to be some good stories about getting them or why they're on one but not another. Jim Gladstone has dug through the memoirs of many and collected them in this highly entertaining and erotic collection. Make no mistake, this is a book that has homoerotic sex as its secondary theme but only as it relates to a tattoo or the getting of one. That said, not much time is wasted bouncing from bed to bed and far more attention is paid to the men and their motives. Various motives that range across a spectrum from sophisticated wit (perhaps the best line in the book is "I always thought Avocado was God's failure to grow soap on a tree") to the tragedy brought on by a gay bashing. Too, as broad a spectrum as this covers it carries with it a range of places, people and things. And that's a diverting thing. These short stories are plot and event driven as opposed to just a surrounding for Sex. They are well written by authors who have considered not only the tattoo itself, but the motivations-and a different lot they are-for being tattooed. From a group of punks with snakes on their heads to a kid trying to grow up and having a word so filthy it's never named put on his back, to the guy who just likes tattoos and is happy to explain his desire to have them. What there aren't are the proverbial, "well, a bunch of us was drunk and I got one" sort of tale. Ditto the service tattoos whose presence is self-expanatory. This is an entertaining ride that the color-free might want to peek into. Or if you've considered getting one, or already have one, chances are you'll find someone in this book to whom you can relate. It's posssibly small minded to mention this, but the cover art, as compared to much homoerotic fiction, is bland to the point of wondering why you'd put it on a coffee table. Thank You, Mr. Gladstone for your time and perspicacity in rounding up the best and putting ink on the page. I'd write more but I have a date with a local ink slinger.