What I propose in this book is a free-flow of information, founded on the love of boys and men, from the most heroic to the most erotic, � b�tons 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 of virility ...
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What I propose in this book is a free-flow of information, founded on the love of boys and men, from the most heroic to the most erotic, � b�tons 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 of virility throughout the ages, mutual pleasuring, penis size [and how to lengthen the beast, to really lengthen it] 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], to today's BelAmi, the apogee in boy eroticism. Included are scenes from the first frankly homosexual pornographic book, Alcibiades the Schoolboy in 1630, to today's erotica. It's been a bumpy road from the purity of Achilles and Patroclus, Alexander and Hephaestion, to the painted faces of Rome where a naked emperor, Elagabalus, stalked well-endowed sailors and castrated catamites by the thousands. 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 awaiting your arrival, anonymous to the world, but the entire world to you. This, too, Greeks and Romans, Florentines and Stonewall New Yorkers, certainly knew--for this is eternal. Although the book counts nearly 300 pages and has taken years of research, I've priced it at the lowest cost permitted by the editors, with the unique aim of placing it in the hands of the greatest number of boys and men.
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