Man/Boy Love Books For Sale

[Roy Radow]

Books relating to man boy love are now available from Ariel's Pages.
Here is an newly UPDATED (December 15, 1997) and EXPANDED version of
their listing.

I know the people at Ariel's Pages and they are quite legitimate.
I am not personally involved in this service however and am only
posting this list FYI.

Any comments you may have regarding this booklist should be sent
to them (I did not write these descriptions). They would also be
interested in any additional books that you could recommend.

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

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North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure
write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018.
Send $5 for a sample Bulletin. Publications list available upon request.
You can now visit our official web site at http://www.nambla.org

Ariel's Pages
PO Box 2487
New York, NY 10185-2487

Ariel's Pages works hard to bring you books you won't find anywhere else.
We offer the best in fiction, magazines featuring the works of outstanding
photographers and artists, non-fiction that dares to tell the truth that's
so often suppressed and tales of sex and romance around the world.

Because so many of the books we sell are from independent publishers or
limited press runs, books often go out of print. Too often, once gone they
are never available again.

So don't hesitate to purchase books you really want. (This is especially
true of the Acolyte Press and Coltsfoot titles; since the death of Acolyte
Press founder Frank Torey, the books are in short supply, and once the
current stock is exhausted, we will be unable to re-supply.)

Please have patience with items on back-order. We sometimes have to deal
with several different distributors to find books, and this can take some-
time. Also note that material shipped from Europe (like Koinos magazine)
usually takes at least 6 weeks to arrive here. We apologize for delays and
appreciate your understanding.

All books are softcover unless otherwise noted, and all prices include
postage (via first class mail for customers in the United States). If you
want express service by Federal Express, add $20 to your order. Please note
Federal Express does not deliver to post office boxes, and this service is
not available for customers outside the United States.

**ACOLYTE PRESS BOOKS**

Acolyte Press was the world's best known publisher of man/boy love litera-
ture. With the death of Frank Torey this past year Acolyte Press has ceased
operations. When our current supply of these books is gone, there will be
no replacements. Among the books listed below are also a few very rare,
long-out-of-print titles from Coltsfoot Press (predecessor to Acolyte)
which we were lucky to obtain in limited quantity.

The Acolyte Readers Series.

In the long-running Acolyte Reader series, the short story format allows
for an impressive variety in each volume. Every book includes serious
authors of short fiction and masters of erotic prose including Kevin Esser,
Luis "Miguelito" Fuentes, Hakim Bey and Robert Campbell. They also comprise
less realistic pieces that really deserve the name fairy tales: everybody
lives happily ever after.

Acolyte Reader Six (192 pp)

Bob Henderson's warmly romantic piece demonstrates why it's so hard for
some men to stop loving boys: there are just too many of them waiting to
be loved. Hakim Bey's "Yohimbe Poems" weave dances with words, remembering
two boys loved by the poet, and Jacques de Brethmas performs a comic turn
with a boy at his most intriguingly deceitful.

Order AR6, $15.50

Acolyte Reader Seven (192 pp)

Alan Edwards updates an ancient Spanish coming of age ritual in one story
and explores the confluence of locomotion and eroticism in another; I.L.
Ingels turns up the heat in a tale of a 13-year-old who cruises the beaches
in search of a lover.

SOLD OUT

Acolyte Reader Eight

This book was out of stock for several months, but we have located a
limited supply. Don't miss your last chance to collect this volume from
the series. It includes Kevin Esser's sequel to his 1988 novel Dance of
the Warriors, plus another story by this master of boy-love fiction. There
are also two stories by Luis Miguel Fuentes, the young writer who invented
a style of erotic writing that's since been imitate by others (though
nobody who bites his shit really gets it quite right). Other familiar
authors from the Acolyte Reader series include Edward Bangor, J. Darling
and Jotham Lotring.

Order AR8, $22.00

Acolyte Reader Nine (192 pp)

Jotham Lotring's "Night Ride" reveals the subtle erotics possible on a
cross-country bus trip, and Christopher Monteriano filters the effects of
family friendships on a delicately blossoming love affair with a 15-year-
old. In Mark Derby's "Not Again," a schoolboy stigmatized for one same-
sex attraction finds in his next relationship with a boy the strength to
stand up to an abusive teacher.

Order AR9, $15.50

Acolyte Reader Ten (192 pp)

I.L. Ingles imagines the developing relationship between a teen-age boy
and his Japanese captor in a World-War-II interment camp, and B.J. Freedman
chronicles the leisurely growth of affection between a runaway teenager and
a rock-and-roll drummer. Other tales are set in New Zealand, Mexico and
Scotland in perhaps the most international collection of Acolyte stories.

Order AR10, $15.50

Acolyte Reader Eleven (192 pp)

Kevin Esser's "Santo Domingo" is full of incident and emotion: love and
betrayal, passion, the threat of death and the promise of renewal. B.J.
Freedman's "Brian's Dick" is a considerably lighter story of the young
narrator's frustrating months-long campaign to get a peek at the title
object. In "Rocky," a lonely retired schoolteacher loves a boy and loses
him, but receives a special gift.

Order AR11, $15.50

Acolyte Reader Twelve (192 pp)

The final volume of the Acolyte Reader series presents the work of several
authors familiar from earlier volumes as well as contributions from some
newcomers. The boys in the stories range in ages from ten to fifteen:
American, English, Spanish, South African and Turkish boys, presented in
tales that make use of cultural details to create moods of romance and
humor.

Order AR12, $15.50

Attic Adolescent, by Bob Henderson (Coltsfoot Press, 240 pp)

Did paederasty die with the Ancient Greeks? Not if Bob Henderson's
account of the country in the mid 70s is any indication. This book
of inter-connected short stories and one novella recounts the amorous
adventures of an incurably romantic expatriate. Andreas, Takis, Pavlos,
Achilles, Nikos, Stelios, Stavros and Spiros are all loved and all
different. Some are street-wise hustlers, others bourgeois schoolboys;
some of Henderson's passions are fleeting and others stretch for years.
A sexy and sensitive account.

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Crowstone, by Hakim (Coltsfoot Press, 382 pp)

This sword-and-sorcery tale has developed a legendary status with both
boy-lovers and science fiction fans because for many years it's been
almost impossible to find. On the fairest of the moons of Algol, a monk
/thief meets a wandering warrior in a fight against air-pirates; they
band together in a quest that introduces them to a score of boys: Jethael
greatest of the Temple dancers; blond Xiri of Thurenian blood; tattooed
Dragon from the Chromatic wastes, Ravinian the voyeur; and pig-tailed
sorcerer Varonael.

SOLD OUT

Explosion, by l.L. Ingles (Acolyte Press, 384 pp)

Inspired by "Lord of the Flies," I.L. Ingles created this novel of a
mixed group of black and white boys surviving in an African cave after
a nuclear war has devastated the earth. The boys build their own society
with a set of rules, but contradictions grow up immediately. Clothes, they
soon realize, are more trouble than they're worth, but the casual nudity
makes challenges to the prohibition against "playing sex" inevitable. The
struggle over sex becomes an emblem of the battle between freedom and
custom, between a past that conjured the disaster that left the boys by
themselves and a future that demands they create traditions of their own.

Order EXP $21.95

The Fire-Worshiper, by Alan Edward (Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

Imagine what it would be like today if the old pagan religions of
Europe had not just survived the on-rush of Christianity but prevailed.
Alan Ed ward has created such an alternate world. England in this tale
is a happy place, a society of advanced but semi-pastoral people where
talented boys sing and dance and openly make love in elaborate religious
celebrations. But the worshippers of Jaweh have not given up; driven
underground and onto a polluted island, their faith has grown ugly and
fanatic. They have begun kidnapping youngsters and forcefully converting
them. This is the story of 12-year-old Alric and his quest, along with a
local wizard, to rescue his lover, abducted and forced into the catacombs
of the dark faith.

Order FRW, $15.50

Growing Old Disgracefully, by Casmir Dukahz (Acolyte Press, 224 pp)

Casmir Dukahz confuses wordplay and foreplay, using both to produce an
explosive climax. These accounts of encounters with a bevy of teenage
charmers are jammed with puns and double entendre, filled with situations
from French farce and slapstick comedy. Seldom is erotic writing so
humorous. Dukahz taps an unending store of naughty anecdotes in this
pseudo-autobiography of a life spent chasing boys. This fourth volume of
his continuing story, weaves the continuing tale of Duke and Remy, his
flaxen-haired Baltimore favorite, into a tapestry studded with one-night
stands.

Order GOD, $16.50

It's Okay to Say Yes, by J. Darling (Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

Subtitled: "Close Encounters in the Third World: The Adventures and
Misadventures of a Well-Traveled Boy-Lover," Darling's book is an account
of a dozen years he spent traveling the world. He has visited all those
places where a well-publicized boy-love "scene" exists, and many more where
it doesn't. Darling is revealed in these pages as a basically decent man
willing to suffer persecution, and even imprisonment, to experience the
fulfillment of his desire for physical love. Read with some insight, his
book also reveals, perhaps unintentionally, the prejudice and paternalism
Westerners often bring to their relationships with boys from far-off lands.

Order IOK, $15.50

Kim, My Beloved, by Jens Eisenhardt (Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

Jens Eisenhardt describes an incredibly intense love in this autobio-
graphical novel about a 28-year-old teacher and a pupil half his age.
Critics hailed it as a "very important work of erotic literature" when in
first appeared in Danish. This English translation lets American readers
enjoy Eisenhardt's precise mapping of the emotional journey hazarded by a
lonely man who follows his heart to a region proscribed by polite society.
Eisenhardt faithfully recounts both the joys and pitfalls of a relationship
whose passion must be hidden from the prying eyes of outsiders.

Order KMB, $15.50

Lucky Lips, by Rob Elan (Acolyte Press, 224 pp)

Ernie Willet is 11 years old, handsome, popular and athletic. He still
struggles, though, with the grief of losing his father two years before.
He looks for emotional support from 16-year-old Rick, who lives down the
street, but it takes classmate Gordie Lewis to show Ernie what it is he
really wants from Rick. Rob Elan's account of a boy's discovery of the
world outside his home is warm, funny and more than anything else, sexy.

SOLD OUT

A Natural Lizard Activity, by B.J. Freedman (Acolyte Press, 176 pp)

This boy-love novel is set in California of the 70s amid the obsessive fans
of the Grateful Dead who style themselves Dead-heads. Thirteen-year-old Kim
and his Pop are packed off on a transcontinental bus by Mom and her new
dope-dealing lover. Once a trendy professor, Pop had burned out his wits on
an overdose of sacred mushrooms; by the time he and Kim end up in Venice
Beach, the child has definitely become father to the man. When a 31-year-
old coke dealer falls for Kim, it sets the stage for a comic, erotic trek
through the state of California as the teenager seeks to balance his
responsibilities to his family, his lover and himself. Freedman's casual
racism is a bummer, almost scuttling the novel's appeal. But his eye for
the realistic detail-emotional, geographic and sociological-makes the novel
worth the trip.

Order NLA, $15.50

Operation Jock, by C.R. Labarge (Acolyte Press, 180 pp)

Operation Jock is very much like the problem novels aimed at juvenile
readers you might remember from the Scholastic books you used to order
through your English class in junior high school. Of course, I can't
recall a Scholastic book where the protagonist's problem was anything
like this: how can 14-year-old Evan, just beginning to understand the
joys of boy-boy sex, integrate his sensitive lover into the gang of rowdy
jocks that are Evan's best friends. But Evan's other concerns would fit
right into one of Scholastic's extracurricular readers: how to convince his
mother to let him try out for junior varsity football, and what to do about
an anti-tax activist who wants to cancel the school sports program to save
money.

Order OPJ, $15.50

The Paggers Papers, by Richard Rawson (Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

For years a little Philippine village had been famous for taking tourists
on boat trips to a scenic waterfall. Western gays soon discovered that many
of the handsome, muscular boatmen were willing to supplement their meager
earnings with prostitution. Soon, their younger brothers were drawn into
the game, and vacationing boy-lovers arrived in increasing numbers. In the
mid-seventies, Western media labeled the situation an example of child
abuse and exploitation, and local politicians built careers promising to
crack down. This book is one man's recollection of the village when man/boy
relationships were tolerated, and even encouraged. It's partly a nostalgic
paean to a boy-lover's lost paradise, partly a social document about boys'
sexuality as it can develop in a palliative environment. Rawson's memoir
shows that the accounts of abuse were products of narrow prejudice, but his
portrait of himself as a not-particularly-sensitive Westerner proves that
sex-tourism has complexities that deserve a more nuanced analysis.

Order PGP, $15.50

Panthology 4 (Coltsfoot Press, 192 pp)

This short-story collection provided the model for the Acolyte Reader
series published by Coltsfoot's successor, and many of the authors will
be familiar to fans of those anthologies. Though not without drama and
conflict, these are, first of all, happy stories about men and boys and
sex. Among the stories: a 13-year-old-boy robot has human feelings; a boy
at summer camp falls in love with his counselor; a boy-lover rescues two
young beggars in Calcutta; two very different stories about religious boys,
and much more.

Order PAN4, $22.00

Shakespeare's Boy, by Casmir Dukahz (Acolyte Press, 248 pp)

The final book and the only novel written by Dukahz before his death in
1988 is removed by centuries from his whimsical accounts of 20th Century
America. He uses the Elizabethan Age and the world of Shakespeare's Globe
Theater as the backdrop for the story of Ruy, orphan and actor. The 13-
year-old thespian achieves instant and tumultuous fame in the role of
Juliet, but his romances off-stage are as passionate as anything the
Immortal Bard ever envisioned. Seduced by tramps and kings, Ruy's gender-
bending on stage lends spice to homoerotic encounters that begin once the
curtain falls.

Order SPB, $15.50

Singularities: Book I, by Robert Campbell (Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

The stories in "Singularities" focus on man/boy relationships in a
variety of settings, punctuated with a series of parodies of newspaper
advice columns that would make Ann Landers blush- at the very least.
Campbell's vision spans a Caribbean island, a military prep school, a
junior varsity football team and a lonely outpost in the African desert.
Though much of the value of "Singularities" comes from the variety of plot
and settings, recurring themes provide an underlying unity to Campbell's
writing. One is the persistence, ingenuity and resilience of pederast
relationships that thrive even in the most hostile environment; another
is the contrast between the expansive joy of those relationships and the
crabbed morality of religious bigots who condemn them.

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Something Like Happiness, by Kevin Esser (Acolyte Press, 202 pp)

Andy Damon swipes a picture of Caravaggio's Victorious Amor from his
small-town Midwestern library and launches himself on a libidinous
adventure that introduces him to a world of pot smoking, kiddie porn and
anything-goes sex parties. Along the way he meets a host of boys not so
different from himself: the black Spinks twins, Snickers and Deacon, Manny
and Fernando Fuentes, track star Timmy Jenco, and Matthew, the neighborhood
paper boy. Some are "gay" and some are "straight," but they're all grist
for sexy Andy's mill. Esser captures the excitement of the young male
animal with exceptionally vivid prose and reveals a touching sensitivity
when Andy's sex-hunt becomes a search for true love.

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Strange Catharsis, by Daniel Mallery (Acolyte Press, 240 pp)

When Richard Eldred takes a job as house parent at a boarding school
for problem children located in the wild Scottish highlands, he hopes
the isolation will restore the inspiration that's has seeped away after
a series of best-selling novels and film scripts. But he finds a growing
attraction to the boys at the school that suggests a deeply buried
motivation. There's Danny, a tough boy exploding through puberty, who
battles authority with his fists. And Hansa, a gentler, reserved boy
desperately seeking love. And Steve, whose perfectly developed runner's
body hides a heart sickness. As Eldred helps them solve their problems,
he finds a solution to his own alienation- but one that challenges him to
respond to feelings he's long suppressed. Mallery's compelling novel has
needlessly Gothic plot complications, but is both warm and sexy.

Order SCT, $17.50

Twofer 1 (Acolyte Press, 256 pp)

Acolyte Press planned to launch this series to reprint boy-love novels at
a discount price; the volume contains two full-length works of fiction.
Since the company is now closed, this "Twofer 1" will be the only one. It
contains Starcross," which traces the love life of Richie McAlister. He
makes love for the first time on his fifteenth birthday; his partner is
straight, but Richie soon finds he's not, and pursues the love of younger
boys across the country and onto the balmy waters of the Bahamas. "Solos
Duets and Improvisations" chronicles the sexual couplings and uncouplings
at a woodsy music school for young prodigies where everyone, it seems,
plays skin flute.

Order ATS, $17.50

**BIOGRAPHY**

The Basketball Diaries, by Jim Carroll (Penguin, 210 pp)

The book that was the basis for the hit movie has more wit, more truth
and more sex than the screen version (though it doesn't have Leonardo
DiCaprio). Apparently Carroll wrote too casually about peddling his meat
to homebound businessmen in the toilets of Grand Central Station for
Hollywood to deal with. So 20 years after the publication of his memoirs,
the silver screen gets a sanitized version for public consumption. If you
want the real stuff, here it is.

Order BBD, $12.50

Boys Like Us, edited by Patrick Merla (Avon Book, softcover, 365 pp)

Subtitled "Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories," this collection
of autobiographical pieces has been an Ariel's Pages best-seller at its
$25 hardcover price. Now the anthology, a vivid window into the sexual
awakening of boys, is available in softcover for just $14.50. The accounts
include Samuel Delaney's realization (at age 11) that his lust for other
boys at summer camp made him somehow different, Michael Nava's single night
of sex with his l6-year-old high school debating partner and Matthew
Stadler's fruitless attempts to seduce his friends in eighth grade. Other
writers, like Michael Carroll, Douglas Sadownick and Rodney Christopher
describe happy and successful experiences with other boys (at age 12, 15
and 18 respectively). Edmund White remembers a trip to Mexico at 14 where
he had sex for the first time, with a grown man who played piano in the
hotel bar.

Order BLU, $14.50

Calamus Lovers, edited by Charley Shively (Gay Sunshine Press, 220 pp)

"Calamus Lovers" examines the poet's relations with common men of the
19th century. Edward Carpenter, an English lover, wrote: "The unconscious,
uncultured, natural types pleased him best." Many letters from some of
these "natural types," often unpublished until now, place Walt Whitman's
Calamus poems in context and provide a unique insight into gay life in
those years. Charley Shively identifies correspondence as Whitman's lovers
and pinpoints for the first time Fred Vaughan as the inspiration for the
poems. Besides introductions and commentaries on the letters, Shively
presents a selection of Whitman's gayest poems.

Order CLV, $11.50

Drum Beats, edited by Charley Shively (Gay Sunshine Press, 256 pp)

"Drum Beats" offers exciting letters to poet Walt Whitman from fifty
soldiers and lovers, including the drummer boys and other youth who made
up the mostly-teenage Union army during the Civil War. Charley Shively's
introduction contains a startling new vision of the war and of Whitman's
poetry. Published from original manuscripts, the letters provide eloquent
testimony of the common soldier's love for Whitman ("Wound Dresser and
Good Kisser"). Shively has also found remarkable new material on Abraham
Lincoln's gay love life and on the homosexual underworld of John Wilkes
Booth.

Order DMB, $13.50

Growing Up Gay in the South, by James T. Sears (Harrington Park Press,
560 pp)

Thirteen biographies provide the starting point for examination of the
unique pressures faced by gay children in the South, including family name
and family honor, the pervasiveness of religious fundamentalism and the
intensity of adolescent culture. Jonathon Kozol called it "a wonderful
portrayal of the way all kids grow up- the cliques that form, the sense of
pecking order, the fear of being spurned... ." Sears also highlights the
courage of young people who find themselves sexual rebels and make the most
of their rebellion.

Order GUG, $21.50

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, by David Wojnarowicz (Artspace Books,
61 pp)

David Wojnarowicz was one of the most provocative artists of his generat-
ion. In prose and pictures, he explores memory, the longing for love and
sexuality in the specter of AIDS in "Memories That Smell Like Gasoline."
His extraordinary life, beginning with his days as a "kid prostitute in
New York" before his tenth birthday, is recalled in ten cartoon/comic
narratives, in paintings of Third Avenue porno movie houses (before Health
Department closures in 1988), ten diary entries and a series of dream-like
memoirs. These episodes from artists life create a sometimes devastating,
always sublime document about coming of age in America.

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Michael Jackson Was My Lover, by Victor Gutierrez (No publisher, 216 pp)

Author Victor Gutierrez passes himself off as an investigative journalist,
but what he really knows is how to dish the dirt. "Michael Jackson Was My
Lover" is gossip at its spiciest. Everything you always wanted to know
about Michael but were afraid to ask (or couldn't find anyone to answer).
The book includes the cheesiest photos imaginable, including the boy's
underwear and "the actual bathroom ... where some of the sexual relations
occurred." To write this kind of book. you must have no shame. Gutierrez
splendidly fills the bill.

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The Orton Diaries, edited by John Lahr (Da Capo Press, 304 pp)

Popular playwright Joe Orton was beaten to death with a hammer by his
lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in 1967. Halliwell then committed suicide,
leaving a note that claimed Orton's diaries would explain everything. The
playwright's account of the last eight months of his life, published in
this volume, certainly don't leave anything out. They include a record of
the two months Orton and Halliwell spent in Tangiers, where both indulged
in uninhibited encounters with Moroccan teenagers. Edited by Orton bio-
grapher John Lahr, the diaries reveal both the sharp wit and the
fascination with sleazy sex that mark Orton's work for the stage.

Order OTD, $16.50

**FICTION**

Ambidextrous, by Felice Picano (Hard Candy Books, 336 pp)

Critics howled that Picano's novel about "The Secret Lives of Children"
was unbelievable, because real boys, 11 to 13 years old, never had sexual
adventures like those detailed here. And Picano pointed out that his book
was a "memoir in the form of a novel" and the adventures in Ambidextrous
were his own. The irony is that Picano's suburbs in the Fifties weren't
remarkable only for sexual opportunities, both hetero and homosexual, it
offered to kids in middle-class neighborhoods. His deeper revelation is
that adults imposed a version of their children's lives that had nothing to
do with the reality the youngsters lived. Critics thirty years later are
still loath to admit the truth. But Picano's account of the erotic
adventures of his playmates is an attempt to recognize children as fully
human, with needs and interests that they pursue regardless of adult
objections.

Order AMX, $8.50

Barely Legal, edited by John Patrick (STARbooks, 507 pp)

What's legal in one place and time, Patrick points out in his intro-
duction, is often forbidden in another, and some of the boys in the
stories collected here would be off-base in more conservative
jurisdictions. Generally, though, the stories are of older teens. And
while the boys are always young, they are rarely innocent. Hustlers and
porn stars turn up in a surprising number of tales, though with more than
500 pages of stories, guys who prefer the shy, boy-next-door-type will find
some pieces to please as well.

Order BLL, $16.50

Beautiful Boy, edited by John Patrick (STARbooks, 528 pp)

As always, this collection of stories edited by John Patrick is a series
of erotic tales united by the broad theme suggested by the title. (Though
reading these works, one might quickly conclude that "beautiful" and "big
dick" are synonymous.) With so many stories packed into one volume, there's
something for everybody, or at least everyone who likes beauty, boys and
big dicks.

Order BBY, $16.50

The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions, 207 pp)

Christopher Isherwood's stories of Berlin, published as "I Am a Camera,"
formed the basis for the hit musical "Cabaret." "The Berlin Stories"
collects more tales of his experience in Berlin just before World War II,
revisiting some of the same characters. These pieces also draw on the
author's experiences as a lover of boys in pre-war Berlin. Isherwood wryly
recalls rooming with the working-class family of one of his adolescent
lovers, and "On Reugen Island" is one of the most astute portraits of a
particular type of man/boy relationship in fiction.

Order BLS, $11.50

Bom-Crioulo, by Adolfo Caminha (Gay Sunshine Press, 141 pp)

One hundred years ago, an impoverished Brazilian writer published this tale
of a 15-year-old cabin boy and the brawny black sailor driven to possess
him sexually. Caminha himself had been a teenage midshipman on a Brazilian
navy ship; his novel, writes translator E.A. Lacey, "remains a truly
revolutionary work: revolutionary in its denunciation of slavery, sadism,
cruelty and man's exploitation of man, revolutionary in its revelation of
society's complicity, its conspiracy of silence regarding all these abuses;
revolutionary in its startling attitudes toward homosexuality, towards race
towards interracial and interage contacts ... . Its message echoes beyond
our time."

Order BMC $9.50

A Boy's Own Story, by Edmund White (Plume, 218 pp)

An intelligent, alienated youngster comes to grips with his sexuality in
a novel by an acknowledged master of modern prose. "A Boys Own Story" is
set in the years that lead from childhood to maturity, full of romantic
notions and disillusionments. A bittersweet novel of adolescent sexuality,
it evokes memories of the perplexing rites of passage, the comic sexual
experiments, the first broken heart and the thrill of forbidden longing.
It also records the subtle dynamics of modern family life.

Order BOS, $11.50

The Boys on the Rock, by John Fox (St. Martin's Press, 146 pp)

Set in the Bronx in the 60s, John Fox's novel details the emotional life of
a high-school swimmer who becomes involved in Eugene McCarthy's idealistic
campaign for president and discovers a passion for more than politics. His
affair with a college student from the campaign has all the magic of first
love but also the threat of a broken heart. When his older lover realizes
that a gay lifestyle threatens his plans for a life in politics, both
struggle to make a difficult choice between the demands of the heart and
the realities of homophobia.

Order BOT, $10.50

Brutal, by Aiden Shaw (Millivres Books, 131 pp)

Set in London's underground club scene, "Brutal" draws on author Aiden
Shaw's own experiences as a prostitute. Paul, the fictional protagonist
finds himself, at a young age, drug-addicted, spinning out of control on
alcohol, HIV positive and haunted by the sickness and death of friends and
lovers. An often bleak and unaffected portrait of a particularly modern
dead-end, "Brutal" offers insight but little solace. It is sobering indeed
to read a young man's book about death.

Order BRT, $14.50

Closer, by Dennis Cooper (Grove Press, 131 pp)

The characters of "Closer," California-perfect denizens of the LA-area
punk scene of the 80s, recoil from emotion and commitment as though they
we're allergic to caring or compassion, but desire persists. Driven, with
increasing desperation, to find in sex something more than the collisions
of flesh and blood, they play with drugs and violence. A bleak and some-
times horrifying vision, "Closer" offers no pat solutions to their alien-
ation but somehow suggests an ineffable presence on the edge of the void.

Order CLS, $10.50

Cry to Heaven, by Ann Rice (Ballantine Books, 566 pp)

The author of the famous "Vampire Chronicles" brings to life the exquisite
society of the 18th century castrati, the delicate and alluring male
sopranos who were put under the surgeon's knife to prolong mastery of the
vocal range attained by boy singers. Guido Maffeo was castrated when he
was six years old and sent to study with the finest singing masters in
Naples. Tonio Treschi was kidnapped as he approached adolescence,
castrated in a scheme to keep him from claiming his place in one of the
most powerful aristocratic families in Venice. Rice follows their
development as musicians and as lovers, in many ways boys forever, filled
with passions that challenge the limits of their bodies as their voices
challenge the creative efforts of the world's great composers. Among the
many things Rice does well is portray the sexuality of children, and she
does it to great effect in "Cry to Heaven."

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Dark Rides, by Derek McCormack (Quarter Press, 99 pp)

"Dark Rides" is a novel told in stories, life in a small town circa 1952
described by a gay teenager named Derek McCormack. To examining physician
Dr. Vine, Derek's an invert, his sexual desires taboo. But official
sanction can't keep Derek from sniffing out tales of Caligula's decadence
at the Peterborough Public Library or feeling up his boyfriend Hugh in the
livestock pens behind the county fair. Illustrated with period photographs
of midways, tractor shows and rodeos, McCormack's stories dazzle.

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Disorder and Chaos, by Simon Lovat (Millivres Books, 249 pp)

When Keith, a civil servant in his late thirties, encounters Nick,
teenaged, beautiful, down-and-out, utterly dishonest and amoral, it sets
in motion of sequence of events that move inexorably towards tragedy.
Lovat's novel documents the way innocent sexual choices expose men to
anxiety and abuse while genuine problems brew in a silence that explodes in
violence and death. "Disorder and Chaos" exposes the hypocrisy of British
life by locating this narrative of a man/boy relationship in a backdrop of
sweeping sociological observation.

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The Dream Life, by Bo Huston (St. Martins, 165 pp)

When does the rescue of an unhappy adolescent from a loveless upper-class
existence turn into a kidnapping? Perhaps when the boy's tutor becomes his
pimp and 13-year-old Jed starts turning tricks to finance his flight with
the fascinating Hollis Flood. By the time the pair reaches California, the
situation is spinning out of control, but Huston's writing remains precise
and sure.

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Dream Boy, by Jim Grinsley (Scribner, 195 pp)

Jim Grimsley's realistic story of small-town farm boys struggling toward
love is shadowed by another tale, by turns luminous and dark. Fifteen-year-
old Nathan is drawn to a neighbor two years older. Stolen kisses in a
school bus and a cemetery lead the boys into the dream world of the title,
but the raw realism of small-town America is never far away. But In this
complex novel, the dream world of sexual ecstasy has its own dangers.
Likewise, the rural world has pleasures to offer, as well as pains endured.
In he climax, the line between the worlds is erased in a storm of violence
and compassion.

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Entries from a Hot Pink Notebook, by Todd Brown (Washington Square Press,
306 pp)

While coming-of-age stories have provided many of the classics of gay
literature, Todd Brown's novel of a Reagan-era teen breaks new ground.
Ben, his hero, sits watching TV with his Christian fundamentalist grandma
as Oprah tries to convince America that gay is good. Brown tells the story
of Ben's first love and difficult exit from the closet in a narrative that
reveals a particularly post-modern gay teen's life with insight sensitivity
and humor. Ben's dysfunctional family and small-town community could easily
have been rendered as stereotype, but Brown weaves enough surprises into
his tale so that his hero's experiences are representative, but never sink
to the level of cliche.

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Fenny Skaller, by John Henry Mackay (Southernwood Press, 166 pp)

John Henry Mackay's poetry had already won him the description of an
"anarchist lyricist" when he began writing "The Books of the Nameless
Love" in 1905. "Fenny Skaller" is one of those books, a novel in which
the Scotch-German philosopher traces the lives and loves of a man in his
forties as he reminisces over a collection of photographs of boys he has
known. His night-time reflections reveal pathos and heartbreak, but also a
growing self-awareness and acceptance of himself as a boy-lover. With the
dawn , "Fenny Skaller" finds hope and happiness. This volume also includes
short prose pieces from "The Books of the Nameless Love."

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For a Lost Soldier, by Rudi von Dantzig (Gay Men's Press)

During the winter of 1944 in occupied Holland, eleven-year-old Jeroen is
evacuated to a small fishing community on the desolate coast of Friesland,
where he meets Walt, a young Canadian soldier with the Allied forces. Their
relationship immerses the young boy in a tumultuous world of emotional and
sexual experience, suddenly curtailed when the Allies move on and Walt
disappears. Back home in Amsterdam, a city in the throes of liberation
fever, Jeroen searches for the soldier he has lost. A child's fears and
confused emotions have rarely been described with such depth of under-
standing, and seen as it is from the child's viewpoint, it invites total
empathy.

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The God in Flight, by Laura Argiri (Penguin Books, 478 pp)

Precocious Simion Satterwhite is just 16 when he arrives at Yale University
in 1878, fleeing an abusive fundamentalist father. He meets 31-year-old art
professor Doriskos Klionarios and embarks on an emotionally reckless
courtship. "The God in Flight" is rich in both plot and character. Argiri's
style recalls the great Victorian novels and the works of Charles Dickens,
creating a world where love is pure and passion triumphs (after 478
compelling pages!) over pain. And she uses the freedom of modern fiction
to tell a story of lover and beloved that would have scandalized another
century.

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Guide, by Dennis Cooper (Grove Press, hardcover, 176 pp)

In the years since he published his first book of poetry in 1978, Dennis
Cooper has been a serious writer of fiction concerned with subjects most
often addressed only for sensationalism or shock value. He has returned in
a series of short novels to themes of pornography, sexual violence, teen
lust, drugs and rock music. His latest novel, Guide, contains the evidence
of that work over two decades, a writer's voice refined by years of hard
work with subjects often considered distasteful. There's also much that 's
new to Cooper in Guide, as he reveals himself a storyteller of consid-
erable skill and humor. In this slender novel, he creates a dozen memorable
characters, including a "modern-primitive" dyke who shoots kiddie porn, a
junkie with a death wish and a dwarf who wants to kill him, an artist
obsessed with an alternative rock-star's ass and another artist distracted
from a new relationship by a skateboarder on the brink of puberty.

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In Youth Is Pleasure, by Denton Welch (Exact Change, 254 pp)

William Burroughs names Denton Welch as the writer who "has most directly
influenced my own work." It's a measure of Welch's power that an author
whose style is, on the surface, so completely different, names him as a
mentor. But what is shared by the Burroughs brutal novels of sex, drugs and
death and Welch's narrative of life in the British countryside is the boy-
hero who sees a different world beneath the reality shared by others. And
the key to that world is in the homoerotic gaze of the youth in question.
The volume also contains a fragment from Welch's journal left unfinished at
his death at the age of 33.

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The Liar, by Stephen Fry (Soho Press, 277 pp)

A comic novel about a likable British student who simply can't tell the
truth, "The Liar" is both a series of hilarious setpieces and a tightly
plotted parody of espionage thrillers with more genuine surprises than
many authentic spy stories. From boarding school tart to duplicitous coach
of a boy's cricket team to college campus forger (passing of a play about
pedophile incest as an undiscovered manuscript by Charles Dickens!),
Adrian's just getting started. Critics cite Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh and
even Monty Python as Fry's predecessors, and this first novel demonstrates
he's worthy of such praise.

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Loving Sander, by Joseph Geraci (Gay Men's Press, 160 pp)

An American photography scholar working in Holland has befriended the ten-
year-old son of colleagues there. Over the next two years, Will is caught
increasingly in tensions between Sander's mother Marijke and her estranged
husband Niek over his growing intimacy with Sander. And the boy himself-
lovable but difficult-is ever more demanding. As Sander's twelfth birthday
approaches, Will has to decide whether to return to San Francisco or stay
and face the risks of his friendship and Sander's need for him.

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Mad About the Boys, edited by John Patrick (STARbooks, 544 pp)

The theme in this collection of erotic fiction is supposed to be boys
who get excited by sex in public, but the hottest tale in the book is
one where little brother Jamie has to sneak up on big brother Vic so he
can get a look at the older's boy's cock. "Eddie's Audition," which turns
Menudo into Los Muchachos and spins a fantasy about the sex life of the
Hispanic boys singers. In "The Rendezvous," voyeurism grows into a
"menage-a-troi s." Included along with the short stories are two full-
length novels.

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Mala Noche, by Walt Curtis (BridgeCity Books)

There are few enough great boy-love books, works that fully satisfy an
audience with a special interest in the topic. What are even more rare are
great books that happen to be about boy love, books that bring the full
potential of literary expression to an exploration of a relationship
between a man and a boy. Walt Curtis' "Mala Noche" is one of those truly
rare masterpieces. Out of print for many years (and almost impossible to
get even when it was in print) its now widely available for the first time
in an edition from BridgeCity books that includes more of the author's
experiences with Mexican teenagers, as well as photographs and drawings
of and by those boys.

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The Man Without a Face, by Isabelle Holland (Harper Keypoint, 157 pp)

Originally published in 1972, the novel that was the basis for the hit
movie differs from the screen version in several interesting ways. Instead
of exposing a town's intolerance about a relationship it can't understand,
Holland focuses on the boy's own conflicts. And where the film suppressed
the physical element of this love between a teacher and pupil, it's a key
facet in the novel. What's also interesting is that this novel, so radical
in many ways, has a deep conservative strain.

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Mike and Me, by Anonymous (Badboy, 147 pp)

Mike joined his junior-college gymnastics squad to bulk up on muscle.
But between his buffed teammates and his sexy younger cousin, he ends up
burning more calories in the bedroom than on the gym floor The locker room
becomes his cruising ground, and since cousin Kevin's a star wrestler,
every young jock in town gets a spot on Mike's sexual wish list. By the
time the team heads for the regional finals, the cream of Minnesota's
athletic community is lining up for a minute with Mike. Non-stop sex action
and not much else, "Mike and Me" will keep you turning the pages- with one
hand, at least.

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My Worst Date, by David Leddick (St. Martin's Press, 259 pp, hardcover)

Hugo looks like a typical Miami teenager; the 16-year-old hangs out at the
beach, works a part-time job to save money for college and dates someone
his single mother wouldn't approve of. But Hugo is anything but typical.
His job isn't at the local pizza place, like he told his mother, but at a
gay bar, where he dances as a go-go boy. And the person he's seeing on the
sly is a much older man- who's also dating Hugo's mother. David Leddick's
comic first novel uses the glamorous ambiance of South Beach Miami to good
advantage and offers a cast of amusing characters. According to Quentin
Crisp, "the descriptions of sex make D.H. Lawrence seem like Barbara
Cartland, but it's about more than sex."

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The Mysterious Skin, by Scott Heim (Harper Collins, 292 pp)

When a Little Leaguer wakes up with a bloody nose in the crawl space of his
small-town Kansas house with no memory of how he got there or what happened
to him in the past several hours, it triggers an obsession that focuses on
abduction by a UFO. But his search for an answer leads him to a former
Little League teammate, now a teenage hustler with a definite penchant for
older men he traces back to the coach of that team. Heim's vivid prose is
as open as the grain fields of the Kansas farm belt where his story takes
place. If this were the Kansas Dorothy knew, nothing in Oz would have
surprised her. Heim's first novel is an impressive literary debut and an
absorbing tale, by turns sexy, funny and troubling.

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Out of Bounds, by Mike Seabrook (Gay Men's Press, 297 pp)

This British love story may contain more about cricket than any American
cares to know, but it's their shared passion for the game that brings
schoolmaster Graham Curtis and his 17-year-old Stephen Hill together as
lovers. Against the background of team sports, their affair seems one of
many possibilities for affectionate male relationships. And the kindness of
coaches and teammates becomes crucial when a blackmailer threatens.

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Persecuted Minority, by Frits Bernard (Southernwood Press, 98 pp)

A fifteen-year-old school boy falls in love with his teacher. His
father discovers a love letter. The teacher and the boy spend a day
by the sea, and the consequences are disastrous. "Persecuted Minority"
asks if a love condemned and outlawed can survive. In the Netherlands,
at least, the book helped to overturn the laws criminalizing homosexual
relationships for boys between 16 and 21 years old. The Southernwood
Press edition of this historic novel is beautifully designed and printed.

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The Persian Boy, by Mary Renault (Vintage Books, 419 pp)

History tells us much about the conquests of Alexander the Great,
whose military campaigns brought virtually all the world he knew under
his domination. And history even hints of his relationship with Bagoas,
a Persian slave who became the emperor's lover. But it takes a work of
imagination to breath life and passion into this age-old tale. Mary Renault
has provided that imagination in a moving and convincing novel that follows
Bagoas from the home of his honored father to a life of degradation and
whoredom and finally to the bed of the most powerful man of the ancient
era.

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Puppies, by John Valentine (Gay Men's Press)

Another man-boy classic that's been out of print for many years has been
re-published by Gay Men's Press. Puppies is one of the most hedonistic
memoirs in print, hailed by The Advocate when in was originally printed as
"a gorgeously witty account of the author's single-minded pursuit of young
men." A pretty fair appraisal, though most of those "young men" were, in
truth, boys. In 1970, Valentine was writing for an underground newspaper
based on downtown Hollywood and using the paper's dilapidated office as his
home. "Peeling wallpaper. Broken windows. Unlockable locks. In the absence
of any kind of curtaining, I had newspapers taped over the windows. The
building was the streetkids' social and community center. Anyone looking
for a crashpad looked first there ...It was a sexual paradise."

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Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger (Signet Classic, 186 pp)

The first successful book by the writer who became the most renowned author
of boy's fiction in history. As the introduction to this new edition notes,
Alger's books relied on a formula: poor but honest boy makes good, thanks
to hard work and the help of a older male friend. But that formula meant
something real to Alger (who was dismissed from the ministry over charges
of "unnatural" relationships with boys-charges he never denied). Today
Alger is remembered as the apostle of unfettered capitalist competition.
Rereading his books, one is struck that, more than the world of commerce
where his boys labored to succeed, Alger champions the warm bond between
a generous man and an attractive boy that provided both of them with a
respite from the cut-throat world of the market and the street.

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Rent Boy, by Gary Indiana (High Risk Books, 121 pp)

Rent boy is British slang for a hustler, but the sex professional in Gary
Indiana's novel is an all-American student who may be too smart for his own
good. That doesn't keep him from getting involved in a mad doctor's scheme
to kidnap unwilling organ donors. But Danny's good sense does start alarm
bells ringing in his brain just when it may be too late to back out of the
weird surgeon's plans for a big payoff. Indiana's novel uses the demi-monde
of Manhattan hustling to comic and macabre effect and proves the hooker
with a heart of gold is a theme ripe for re-picking in the nineties. And
the sleek design by High Risk makes "Rent Boy" a book that's physically fun
to read-an apt metaphor for it's pay-for-play narrative.

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Rolling the R's, by R. Zambora Linmark (Kaya Production, 149 pp, hardcover)

Still two years shy of puberty, the hero of R. Zamora Linmark's first novel
is ready and eager to come of age. Edgar's too busy to do his fifth grade
homework because he's building a queer identity for himself, taking " No-
Doz, Folger's and Coca Cola" to fuel endless hours of watching skin flicks
and "Charlie's Angels." Lip synching to Donna Summer along with his own
gang of bad girls, he dreams of kissing Scott Baio from "Happy Days" while
getting real-life sex education from the grade-school janitor while the
other kids play football at recess. "Rolling the R's" rushes like a roller
coaster, mixing all-American pop culture with the unique polyglot heritage
of the Hawaiian Islands. But anchoring this wild ride is a poignant feeling
for what it's like to be a boy who knows he's queer- and knows what he's up
against- years before anyone else is ready to acknowledge his feelings.

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Runaways/Kid Stuff, by John Patrick, editor (STARbooks, 635 pp)

The respective titles pretty much define the specific themes of this
two-books-in-one collection of a seeming endless supply of teen sex.
"Runaways" mixes fiction with true-life accounts of homeless boys whose
experience range from romantic encounters with older dream-lovers to
humiliating bouts of S&M action as boy sex-slaves. "Kid Stuff" contains
more carefree pleasures, adolescence recalled in stories like "Game Night,
My First Lesson" and "Matty Makes the Team."

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Secret Passions, edited by John Patrick (STARbooks, 528 pp)

This collection of erotica from John Patrick has all the sizzling sex fans
of his porn anthologies expect. But his theme in this one is boys just
discovering (or desperately trying to hide) their hunger for other boys.
That leads to stories that explore the thrill of seduction, the joys of
discovery and the reality that the pleasures delayed just a little while
taste sweeter when they come. Many publishers of modern erotica are
unwilling to print stories about boys. Not STARbooks; young teens, high
school hunks, and innocent-but-eager-young virgins, pop up in lots of the
pieces in this 500-page collection.

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The Sex Offender, by Matthew Stadler (Harper Collins, 206 pp)

In this scary tale from the not-to-distant future, a teacher who has sex
with one of his students is sent for mental-reconditioning and given a new
identity. As Mr. Uh-uh, the offender uncovers a secret world that mocks the
puritanism of his society and finds that true passion draws him inevitably
away from the "normalcy" of a world where love can be a crime. Both a
darkly comic story and a sophisticated analysis of identity and sexuality,
Stadler's ambitious novel is an important and enduring work.

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The Singalong Tribe, by Kent Ashford (Gay Men's Press, 182 pp)

The callboys of the Singalong Pension work with one aim in view: to
escape the poverty and hardship of Manila. Amid that squalor that tourists
consider exotic, the boys have only their bodies and their cunning to keep
themselves alive. Vividly set in the Philippines, this is a story of money,
sex and the quest for social justice. Kent Ashford spent many years as a
journalist in Southeast Asia, and he uses his first-hand knowledge of the
region to provide realism to his tale. "The Singalong Tribe" also shows
genuine concern for the people of the Philippines and provides a fascin-
ating vision of their culture.

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Streetboy Dreams, by Kevin Esser

When his final attempt at heterosexual romance ends with a whimper, Peter
seeks solace in a bottle of Scotch. But it's Gito, a 14-year-old streetkid
who sneaks into the bar selling candy, that distracts Peter's attention
from his dreary love life. The lonely teacher offers Gito shelter from an
abusive home. And as the defensive youngster begins to open himself to the
older man, Peter feels the tug of another kind of romance. As both man and
boy fight awkwardly against their growing attraction, Streetboy Dreams
becomes one of the most touching and unusual love affairs in literature.
Kevin Esser is the most accomplished writer of erotic interaction between
man and boy, and Streetboy Dreams is his masterpiece.

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Superfag, by Daniel Curzon (Igna Press, 218 pp)

Daniel Curzon's satirical novel opens with God sending his son to earth
on a mission to rid the world of homophobia. Dubbed Superfag instead of
Jesus Christ, this younger Son of God nearly faces of crucifixion of his
own when he's caught giving a pubescent boy a blow job in a tree house. He
escapes, barely, and is launched on a series of adventures that hilariously
highlight bigotry and hypocrisy in politics, religion, the media and "just
plain folks." Curzon, one of the pioneers of gay fiction, takes on an
entire herd of sacred cows in a funny novel that honors the original
radical spirit of gay liberation.

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The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst (Vintage International,
336 pp)

This stunning literary debut was a sensation and a best-seller in both
England and America, enthralling and darkly erotic. William Beckwith, a
young gay aristocrat leads a life of pleasure and promiscuity. His pursuit
of pleasure began with boyhood adventures with schoolmates and continues
with his cruising London, an eye open for the young and willing working-
class partners he prefers. When he meets elderly Lord Nantwich, an old
African hand seeking a biographer, Beckwith learns of another era of boy-
loving when the consequences were often disastrous. Bristling with wit and
spunk, Hollinghurst's novel is absorbing and delightful.

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Talking to Strange Men, by Ruth Rendell (Pantheon Books, 280 pp, hardcover)

Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer working today. In "Talking to
Strange Men," she weaves with a sure hand the lives of an enthusiastic
schoolboy, an embittered shop clerk and boy-lover trying desperately to
avoid temptation and further problems with the law. When the clerk stumbles
across a coded message, he thinks he's discovered an actual espionage ring,
rather than an elaborate game of spy-vs-spy between boys at rival British
boarding schools. He decides to hook his ex-wife's new lover into the
affair. That sets boy and boy-lover on a collision course with terrifying
consequences, in a plot with enough surprises to keep it compelling through
its conclusion. Along the way, savor Rendell's brisk prose and here eye for
telling detail. A special purchase makes it possible for Ariel's Pages to
offer this hardcover book at a paperback price.

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That Day at the Quarry, by Tom Shaw (Outbound Press, 156 pp)

Michael Bronski writes in his introduction that "That Day at the Quarry" is
about what it means to become a man in America. For the narrator of this
autobiographical novel, becoming a man means becoming a queer, earning the
right to suck cock. It's a privilege not granted without struggle, as his
friends are boarding school kids with a shared interest in the tortures
inflicted by Native Americans on their captives and the interrogation
practices in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps. When the boys begin to express
their fascination on the bodies of each other, they create a rite of
passage that delivers both knowledge and pleasure both purchased at great
price. Not quite a tale of torture, it's certainly one of the most rigorous
initiations available. This is sadism not as a fantasy game played by men
with store-bought whips and expensive leather but as a very real quest
organized by teens with the odds and ends of garage and junk yard. Bob and
Jim are winners in a poker game that delivers the narrator into their hands
for 24 hours. He discovers in that night and a day the very limit of what
his body can endure and finds at that limit the beginnings of an erotic
life.

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Touched, by Scott Campbell (Bantam Books, 313 pp, hardcover)

When 12-year-old Robbie Young comes home from the mall and tells his
mother, "Jerry Houseman's been touching me," he's not prepared for the
power of his announcement. The revelation does far more than end the year-
long relationship between a small town mailman and a boy beginning to feel
the restless independence of adolescence. Scott Campbell's novel, narrated
in turn by Robbie's mother, by Jerry himself, by Jerry's wife and by Robbie
(fifteen years after the fact) chronicles the harrowing results of a
collision between love and law. Like each of the characters, readers too
will be touched by the cruelty of a system that offers to solace to neither
man nor boy and serves only those hungry for revenge.

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Try, by Dennis Cooper (Grove Press, 199 pp)

Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, "Try" is the story of Ziggy,
the adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed
experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him stranded with one
and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other. He turns from
both of these men to his uncle, who sells kiddie-porn videos on the black
market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires
in Ziggy a fierce and awkward devotion. In "Try", Cooper illuminates with
utter clarity the need to possess wholly something that will fill the
profound emptiness of the human soul.

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Unnatural Relations, by Mike Seabrook (Gay Men's Press, 279 pp)

Fifteen-year-old Jamie Potten has a father who's a brute and a mother who
drinks. Nineteen-year-old Chris, Jamie's new friend, brings the boy rare
joy and solace. For the boys, making love is a natural expression of their
friendship- but to the law, it's very unnatural. In fact, it's "buggery
with a minor," and Chris' own youth can't keep him out of the prosecution
box when Jamie's father decides to make trouble for the boys. Can two young
lovers find in their passion and devotion the strength to fight prejudices
which have endured for generations? Mike Seabrook draws on his own exper-
ience as a policeman to provide accurate depictions of the process of
arrest, interrogation and prosecution.

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User, by Bruce Benderson (Plume/Penguin Books, 227 pp)

Bruce Benderson's "User" presents a society just as scary- and it's our
own! Benderson's portrayal of a street hustler and dope addict named Apollo
is both hilarious and unsparing: it only hurts when you laugh. Apollo's
violent encounter with the bouncer in a porno theater puts him at the
center of a circle of sharply observed characters: Detective Pargero, who
investigates the assault on his Times Square turf with an interest that's a
little more than professional, Baby Pop, the 13-year-old son of the victim,
a math genius junior-high dropout who's already turning tricks on his own,
and one of Apollo's ex-tricks who's dying of AIDS and loneliness. A few
autographed copies are on hand for readers who order first.

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When Jonathan Died, by Tony Duvert (Gay Men's Press, 174 pp)

Like many novels, this book is the story of a love affair. What is less
usual is that Jonathan, an artist, is almost thirty when the story starts,
while Serge is a boy of eight. Duvert delivers a cool and matter-of-fact
portrayal of a sensitive theme, a welcome alternative to the hysteria
surrounding the age taboo in the English-speaking countries. Like all
lovers, Jonathan and Serge create their own microcosm of domestic and
erotic ritual, but theirs is a world that shatters on contact with the
surrounding society. Duvert's novel is extraordinary because he makes
the psychology of his characters more compelling rather than sensational,
forcing readers to accept their relationship on its own terms. Nor does the
author flinch from a heartrending conclusion that even Jonathan, deeply in
love, sees all along is inevitable.

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Young Tom, by Forrest Reid (Gay Men's Press, 169 pp)

The works of Forrest Reid powerfully conveys the essence of childhood.
This first book of his trilogy about the life of English lad Tom Barber
is published by Gay Men's Press, although the story contains no overtly
gay content. But the gay ambiance is nonetheless palpable. Reid evokes
rather than explains, and this classic 1944 novel captures him at the
height of his powers

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Against My Better Judgement, by Roger Brown, Ph.D.

Roger Brown was in his sixties when the psychologist and Harvard profes-
sor of psychology lost his lover of 40 years to cancer. He realized that,
despite his intelligence, sophistication and professional achievement, the
kind of young men he was interested in would find little about him inter-
esting- except his money. So he began a long series of relationships with
male prostitutes, and he has chronicled that part of his life in a book
that brings all his skills for psychological insight into a study of his
own character.

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The Age Taboo, edited by Daniel Tsang (Alyson Publications, 178 pp)

Tsang centers this collection of essays on man/boy love around the
issues of gay may sexuality, power and consent. He has labored to include
disparate voices in the discussion, with pieces from feminists Kate Millet
and Pat Califia as well as the editors of "Lesbian Rising." Gay and lesbian
teenagers, some themselves in cross-generation relationships, are also re-
presented, and the subjects of childhood, ageism, racism and ideology are
explored.

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Boys on Their Contacts with Men, by Theo Sandfort (Global Academic
Publishers, 176 pp)

A book written for the general reader about Sandfort's study of 25 Dutch
boys between the ages of 10 and 16 who were currently involved in sexually
expressed friendships with men. None of the relationships had been dist-
urbed by intervention by the authorities, and all of the boys viewed their
older friends and the sex they shared in a positive manner. An appendix
presents complete interviews with three of the boys.

SOLD OUT

Children's Sexual Encounters with Adults, by C.K. Li et al (Prometheus
Books, 343 pp, hardcover)

This detailed report of a study conducted at Cambridge University presents
findings that conflict with much popular wisdom. "Sexual encounters between
boys and adults are surprisingly common ... with no particular consequen-
ces." Li and his co-authors include a statistical analysis of a survey on
the sex histories of male students and draw some provocative conclusions
from the data. They include extensive excerpts from students' conversations
about their sexual encounters during childhood and adolescence. The book
contains a skillful demolition of sexologist David Finkelhor's pseudo-
scientific position that adult-child sex (and even adult-adolescent) sexual
encounters are always unethical.

SOLD OUT

Crime Without Victims, by the "Trobrians" Collective (Global Academic
Publishers, 150 pp)

Danish sexologist Dr. Praben Hertoff provides the introduction for
this series of three essays and 16 interviews. The format allows for an
impressive variety of opinions on pedophilia. There are interviews with
an attorney specializing in the defense of pedophiles, adults involved
sexually with children, youngsters who have experienced relationships,
and even the mother of one such boy. Most of the youngsters reported that
sexual friendships with adults were a positive force in their lives, but
the book doesn't ignore the problems posed by man/boy encounters.

Order CWV, $16.50

Dares to Speak, edited by Joseph Geraci

The title of this collection of articles from the journal Paidika is
hardly an exaggeration: publication of the book in England caused a
sensation, with front-page debates in British papers. Even a casual
look at the contents reveals that the controversy was not over obscenity
or erotica, but merely the outrage created when serious scholars study
the subject of boy-love with respect, precision and integrity. Editor
Joseph Geraci has culled selections from the ten year's of his "Journal
of Paedophilia". The book's span in time reaches from the year 50 B.C.
to the present time, and it includes anthropology, history, psychology,
literature, legal studies, political science and journalism. Dares to
Speak also includes an invalu-able of boy-love writing, fiction and non-
fiction.

Order DTS, $21.50

Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany, edited by Harry
Oosterhuis and Hubert Kennedy (Harrington Park Press, 272 pp)

Before Hitler's rise to power, Germany was the home to both an impressive
youth movement and Europe's most advanced gay rights movement. Quite often,
the two overlapped. These radical roots of gay liberation might have been
forgotten were they not recorded in "Der Eigene," an early German gay
journal. But the writings were ignored for years after Nazism crushed the
movement, and many have never before been translated into English. This
book rescues those landmark documents, a timely challenge to modern gay
activists unwilling to defend youth sexuality.

Order HAM, $16.50

Loving Boys, Volume Two by Edward Brongersma (Global Academic Publishers,
512 pp)

This is the second (and final) volume of Dr. Brongersma's immense and
enormously readable study. Half again as big as the first book, Brongersma
covers in great detail the negative aspects of man/boy love (real and ima-
ginary), sexual oppression versus sexual liberation, and finally sex and
erotic contacts with boys- what really happens during intimacy between men
and boys. This is a supplementary bibliography, a subject index and a
register of names and sources for both volumes. Volume One is out of print.

Order LB2, $31.50

Male Intergenerational Intimacy, edited by Theo Sandfort, el al (Harrington
Park Press, 325 pp)

This is a ground breaking look at new historical, legal, sociological
and cross-disciplinary research on sexual intimacy between men of
different generations. The book isn't limited to the usual political
and psychological arguments about whether such relationships should be
permitted or persecuted. Instead, the authors reveal a broad range of
interests, including a look at the relationship between a turn-of-the-
century artists and the boy who was his favorite model, a study of 2500-
year-old Greek inscriptions some claim are the ancient equivalent of men's
room graffiti and a sophis-ticated look at the social construction of
childhood sexuality.

Order MII, $21.50

Male Prostitution, by Donald West and Buz de Viliers (Harrington Park Press
358 pp)

This work by leading sex researchers is based on interviews with hundreds
of London rent boys. Though the work is a scholarly study conducted under
the auspices of Cambridge University, the authors use the plain language
of the prostitutes themselves to reveal the details of their lives. The
interviews include information on prices, as well as transactions that go
sour, unusual, rare and interesting client requests, threats of blackmail
and violence (on both sides!) and prostitutes as lovers. Male Prostitution
combines rigorous research with a relaxed style and lack of prudish
restraint.

Order MPR, $19.50

Paedophilia: A Factual Report, by Frits Bernard (Enclave, 101 pp, hard-
cover)

This slim volume reports on scientific research conducted among pedophiles
regarding several different questions. Dr. Bernard includes analysis of
long-term effects on children in relationships, the age preferences of
pedophiles, and their mental health and sociability. Much of the material
is presented in charts and graphs, making the results of detailed
scientific studies accessible to lay readers. The book, translated from the
Dutch, also includes a lengthy bibliography of Bernard's writing.

SOLD OUT

Policing Public Sex, edited by Dangerous Bedfellows (South End Press,
416 pp)

Activists debate what role the state should play in regulating sexual
behavior, especially when issues of public health connect with personal
liberty. Particularly trenchant are Wayne Hoffrnan's complaints as a
member of a gay generation told to stick to safe sex and keep its mouth
shut. He observes that while public tolerance for a gay identity was
growing, so was condemnation of sexual behavior, drastically reducing
opportunities for teenagers coming of age to fuck and suck. And Stephen
Gendin recalls the place of both sex and HIV in the lives of gay men who
were teenagers in the early years of the 1980s.

Order PPS, $21.50

Regarding Proposed Changes to Article 240B of the Dutch Penal Code, by
Lawrence A. Stanley (Lawrence A. Stanley, Esq., 160 pp)

They're all here: the celebrated photographer, the unsuspecting parent
with family snapshots, the cops banging at the door, the fomenting pro-
secutor, the overzealous social worker, the FBI, the judges and jury and
the children caught in the middle. Read this and shudder. Attorney Lawrence
Stanley has written a fascinating and informative analysis of the social
misconceptions fueling child pornography hysteria. Citing a number of
recent cases of government censorship and police harassment, Stanley
untangles the facts from the myths behind the continued assault on
contemporary photography and personal liberties. As an attorney who has
worked at the heart of the child obscenity issue, Stanley exposes the
tortured logic of prosecutors and warns of the tragic consequences of
legal policies that purport to protect, but in reality hurt, children.
He reports cases of police pressure imposed on "victims" to force
confessions of harm where, in fact, there was no harm. It is a tale of
lives disrupted, reputations shattered, and artistic freedoms trampled
under the heels of runaway moral zeal. Stanley's book includes a biblio-
graphy of more than 175 books containing images that might suffer the
censor's ax, as well as 25 b&w plates by photographers of serious merit
who work includes full frontal nudity of both male and female children.

Order RPC, $20.00

The Scapegoat Generation, by Mike A. Males (Common Courage Press, 328 pp)

Every night the 10 o'clock news makes it clear that today's teens are a
band of violent, sex-crazed louts whose careers of evil are halted only
when epidemic drug abuse drives them to miserable deaths by suicide. It's
clear as day- but it ain't true! In "The Scapegoat Generation," Mike
Males offers well-researched proof that the image of teens fostered by
politicians, the media and social conservatives is a pastiche of myth and
outright lies. In place of drugs, gangsta rap, TV mayhem and "innate"
youth savagery, Males uncovers the increasing poverty of American teens
as the major cause of the increasing violence in their lives. Discussing
teenage sexuality, the author contorts his own statistics to avoid
challenging liberal sacred cows. Too bad he refuses to make the radical
conclusions his own research suggests. On the whole, though, "The Scapegoat
Generation" does an important job well.

Order SGG, $19.50

Taking Liberties, edited by Michael Bronski (Masquerade Books, 469 pp)

Michael Bronski accurately points out the wide variety in his collection of
recent essays by gay men, so it's interesting how many of them encompass an
interest in man/boy relationships. Two essays are explicitly devoted to the
topic, and the subject peppers several other contributions. Bruce Bawer's
rewrites history to justify his tendentious dismissal of NAMBLA, John
Preston opens his memoirs of 30 years of S/M with an account of his teenage
relationship with a men in his thirties, and even Lawrence Mass accounts of
"Musical Closets" treats the importance not only of Benjamin Britten's
homosexuality but his boy-love as well. Jesse Green strains to appear fair
while joining the chorus of NAMBLA bashers, but his slips are showing in
"The Men from the Boys." Bill Andriette's "Dumbed Down and Played Out" is
the jewel in the crown, exceptional both in the level of analysis and the
depth of compassion.

Order TKL $14.50

Talk Back!, by Lesbian and Gay Media Advocates (Alyson Publications, 120
pp)

A training manual for would be activists- and armchair activists- "Talk
Back!" will teach you how to fight sloppy reporting and outright lies in
the media as well as generate stories that present a more realistic picture
of our community. The book's special attention to lesbian and gay concerns
makes it a targeted text book for budding activists. With sample letters to
use as guides, this book's suggestions for do-it-yourself protest can be
put into action immediately.

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Two Teenagers in Twenty, edited by Ann Heron (Alyson Publications, 186 pp)

This new edition of Heron's original book reprints 24 of the stories from
"One Teenager in Ten" and adds 20 more pieces reflecting the lives of gay
and lesbian teenagers in the 12 years since the first book was published.
Sadly, the young people represented report many of the same problems with
homophobia, rejection by family and friends and legal sanctions on their
sexuality. But the strength and hope that marked the original volume also
persists.

Order TTI, $11.50

Varieties of Man/Boy Love, edited by Mark Pascal (Wallace Hamilton Press,
124 pp)

Pederasty has been an important part of gay sexuality and a phenomenon
that's taken many forms. This collections suggests some of the many
different things man/boy relationships have meant to the people in them,
and what political and social sense they have made out of them. Personal
accounts flavor Tom Reeves' anecdotal portrait and David Thorstad's
"Conversation with a Boy Lover" in 1978. Hubert Kennedy and Steven Adrian
Smith contribute historical accounts from Germany and Great Britain.

Order NJ8 $9.50

A Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI vs. NAMBLA, by David Thorstad (Wallace Hamilton
Press, 91 pp)

This history of a hiccup on the part of the police state recounts one of
the most heartening David-and-Goliath battles of modern times. On one side
was the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a group founded in 1978 to
support consensual sexual relationships between boys and men. On the other
side was the Federal Bureau of Investigation, using their police power to
harass and destroy legitimate political organizations. Near the end of
1982, the Bureau claimed that it had discovered photographs that NAMBLA had
been involved in the kidnapping of a boy who had disappeared several years
earlier. NAMBLA activists were not only able to prove that the FBI was
willing to manufacture evidence and lie to the media to press its absurd
case against the group; spokespersons from the organization had the guts to
take the spotlight of the national media and turn the tables on the cops.

Order WHF, $7.50

Young Gay and Proud, edited by Sasha Alyson (Alyson Publications, 119 pp)

A resource book for high school students exploring their sexuality and
preparing for coming out, "Young, Gay and Proud" mixes practical advice
with chapters calculated to boost self-esteem in the face of homophobia.
Included is a chapter of famous gays and lesbians in history. It's
interesting, in this book for teenagers, how many of the gay men included
on that historic list loved boys, though this isn't acknowledged in the
thumbnail biographies of their lives presented in the volume.

Order GYG $5.50

**PERIODICALS**

Edition Euros #8
Bel Ami: Photos of Johann

The latest work from Eastern Europe's Bel Ami photo studios features young
Johann Paulik, naif and video star. The elegant hard-cover book, the first
of the Edition Euros series in color, is a real delight. It's not a coffee-
table book (unless you want to cream in your coffee), but the smaller size
makes it easier to handle, and the attractive layout showcases the photo-
graphy beautifully. There are pictures of Johann alone and with friends,
in the stylishly baggy clothes of today's youngsters or, more often, naked.
Fans of Bel Ami studios will recognize the combination of innocence and
romance with explicit sexuality, all shot against beautiful natural set-
tings. None of the photos duplicates the images in Bel Ami's popular post
card book, but you might recognize scenes from some of Johann's Paulik.
This is bound to sell out quickly (as did the last Bel Ami collection), so
order yours before they are gone.

Order EE8, $18.50

Every page of Bel Ami's latest book is a post card. You can detach
your favorite page to send it to a friend- though he'd have to be a
good friend to merit sacrificing one of these 28 color photographs.
(You'd probably want to be on pretty good terms with your mailman,
too.)

Order BAP, $9.50

Benno Thoma Postcards

With photographer Benno Toma's collection Young Companions out of print,
we're fortunate to have this postcard edition of some of his black-and-
white erotic portraits of teens and young men. Toma poses his models in
somber and dreary backgrounds, their energy and vitality triumphing over
the decaying world around them. He's also a master of the nearly-nude,
picturing his boys with a scrap of clothing that accentuates the desir-
ability of the exposed flesh.

Order TPC, $9.50

GAYME, edited by Bill Andriette

"Gayme" brings together the work of outstanding writers of fiction,
incisive political and cultural analysts and outstanding photographers
to create a periodical that's satisfying on many levels. Early issues
have already sold out at prices up to $30 each.

The following are still available:

Gayme 2.1: Harry Hay offers a new vision for the 90s; Mark Pascal on the
politics of cocks, dicks and penises; photography by William Von Gloeden
and contemporary studies of the male nude; 20 pages of short fiction; and
more.

Gayme 2.2: E. Carlotta tours a Mexican bathhouse; Mark Pascal writes
on Disgust/Desire; recent photos by Bernard Faucon and Larry Clarke
reviewed; fiction by Stephen Dueweke and Rod Downey; Hakim Bey recalls
pirate utopias; Mitzel ponders youth and aging; Tom Reeves surveys the
state of gay liberation.

Gayme 3.1: Kevin Esser's tragedy of love and plague, Santo Domingo,
Guglielmo Pluschow's historic nude studies of adolescents, poems by
Antler, D.H. Mader's exploration of the photography and homoerotic
images of painter Thomas Eakins, and interviews with cultural agitators
Hakim Bey and Camille Paglia.

Order G + number, $10.00

Handjobs Magazine (80 pp)

Billed as "Daddy Boy Stories," this monthly magazine focuses on sexual
experiences between boys and older lovers- not just daddies, but uncles,
big brothers, friendly neighbors, coaches, ministers, etc. Name your boy-
love fantasy, and you'll likely find it here, along with letters from
readers, sexy comic strips and line art, personal ads and more. Send $5.00
for the December issue and take advantage of our special savings on back
issues. Add $2.50 for any single back issue $4.75 for two back issues.

Order HJ11: $5.00

HJ11 + back issue: $7.50

HJ 11 + two back issues: $9.75

Handjobs by Julius (100 pp)

Each of these special 100-page issue features a complete graphic novel by
the distinctive artist Julius.

The Bavarian Chronicles:

"The Legacy of Slava," part one of "The Bavarian Chronicles," is presented
in this steamy adult comic book. Like the pictures, the story is realistic
enough to be genuinely sexy but with an air of the exotic that makes it
very definitely a fantasy. Slava's a young refugee in World War II who
trades a blow job for a loaf of bread. His deal with a hunky German soldier
sets off a sexual daisy chain that eventually includes daddies and their
teenage sons, strapping Polish farmhands, the soldiers of four different
armies and even Grandpa Otto. Julius devotes each page to a single drawing
of his lusty band of war-time lovers, depicting Aryan boys with uncut
clicks, older teens just sprouting pubic hair and full grown hirsute hunks
with massive cocks, all with beautiful bodies and a potent energy.

Order BVC, $21.50

The Bavarian Chronicles II:

Volume II continues Julius' sexy tale of smooth-skinned boys and big-
dicked daddies frolicking in wartime Germany. Readers might experience
guilty pleasures as German schoolboy Klaus flirts with fascism as a
species of homoeroticism- but it's Klaus' anti-nazi father, a sturdy
socialist blacksmith, who turns out to be the hottest hunk of all. And the
political caricatures are a thin veneer to carry an unrestrained fantasy
about a world where sex between men and boys is common currency. With 100
full-page drawings to tell the tale, "The Bavarian Chronicles II" offers
a dizzying collection of portraits of man/boy couples sucking, fucking,
kissing and snuggling.

Order BV2, $21.50

Go West:

Another erotic adventure by the master of the man/boy comic. In the
stylized world of Julius, all boys are smooth-skinned and sleek and men
(even Native American) are unfailingly hirsute. Caught "en flagrante
delicto" in his step-father's general store, young Jason is sent out west,
where he learns how much fun it is to play cowboys and Indians. And, since
this is a story by Julius, Jason's very sexy daddy pops up (literally)
where he's least expected.

Order GOW, $21.50

The Lusty Gods of Bramapur:

Another erotic comic by Julius, this tale starts in a boarding school
called Masonhurst, where Andrew meets with his teacher for special tutor-
ing sessions. After some hands-on lessons in the sexual customs of exotic
lands, Andrew gets to make his own investigations. An incredible journey
introduces him to the secret traditions of an ancient culture and to the
horny modern men and boys who keep the sexual rites alive. Every page is
a picture, with just enough text to thread together these images of guys
throbbing, thrusting, hugging and cumming in every imaginable position
(and a few positions that defy the imagination!).

Order LGO, $21.50

Koinos, published by the Amikejo Foundation (34 pp)

A bilingual (German/English) review of pederasty, Koinos covers the history
and culture of boy-love, examines response to the phenomenon in various
countries and showcases the work of the finest contemporary photographers
of adolescents. Each issue features at least 8 full-page photos, some in
color.

Several issues are already out of print. Issues 9 through 15 are currently
available.

Koinos 9: the Hite sex report, book and film reviews, naturist travel in
France.

Koinos 10: child pornography and Dutch law, the 1996 Berlin Film Festival,
fiction.

Koinos 11: a German youth group fights ageism, youth prostitution in the
Third World.

Koinos 12: the Dutroux affair in Belgium, changes in views on sexuality,
homosexuality in the German Youth movement.

Koinos 13: On back order

Koinos 14: On back order

Koinos 15: The latest issue of this bi-lingual magazine with "features on
boys" includes an 8-page portfolio of black-and-white portraits
as well as two full-page color pictures. And as befits a maga-
zine that celebrates the appreciation of art and imagery,
there's a useful summary of films screened at the recent Berlin
Film Festival. This issue also includes a summary of pertinent
news items from around the world, book and music reviews and
fiction.

Request alternate issues to avoid waiting for issues on back order.

Order KO plus number, $11.50 each

Made in the USA, edited by Renato Corazza (48 pp)

A photo magazine that celebrates youth with a series of photo collages
of boys old and young at work and play. Editor/publisher Renato Corazza
displays a keen eye and a warm heart.

Made in the USA #1:

The historic first issue; only a few copies remaining.

Made in the USA #2:

A new, friendlier format sets it apart from, it's bigger brother,
with plenty of room for its collages of beautiful boys. Plus theme
pages celebrating the Seven Deadly Sins like you've ever seen them
before. And "Soccer Madness" captures the excitement of the world's
most popular sport pursued by spirited young athletes.

Made in the USA #3:

If a picture is really worth 1,000 words, "Made in the USA" is a veritable
encyclopedia devoted to the delights of boys. This issue features color
covers. A section on pets shows boys with donkeys, rabbits, tigers and a
really big pig, in addition to the expected dogs and cats. Photo-collages
mix elements in unexpected ways, with proof that verbal vocabulary can
manage some pretty sly political commentary.

Made in the USA #4:

The magazine goes international, with pictures of boys from all around the
world. Plus, an illustrated history of family nudism in the United States.

Made in the USA #5:

From the young punk on the cover to the pensive adolescent on the back,
the latest issues features boys of all ages and attitudes. Part two of the
illustrated history of nudism, poetry and a stunning boy in a basket round
out the collection.

Made in the USA #6

Made in the USA goes to the beach, with sun, sand and skin popping up in
many of the pages. Also, a heartening series on Father and Son and the
continuing history of nudism in America.

Made in the USA #7:

The seventh issue of this magazines of photos and collages moves outside
the 50 states to look at the lives of boys all around the world, including
an extended trip to "Where the (Water) Buffalo Roam." A six-page photo
essay catches Asian cow-herders bathing in the canal alongside their big-
horned charges. Another article continues MUSA's history of the naturist
movement. There's also a plaintive portrait that focuses on the life of
an HIV-positive orphan in Bucharest, collages that juxtapose images in
provoking combinations, and pages that collect scenes of vitality, freedom
and joy. As editor Renato Corazza continues his series, he reveals more and
more a view of life that values humor, celebrates tenderness and revels in
the details of beauty we so often fail to stop and contemplate. Made in the
USA brings them together and asks us only to enjoy.

Order US7, $22.00 postpaid.

Order US + number, $22.00 each

Special offer: any five issues for $95.00

The NAMBLA Bulletin

For more than 15 years, the voice of the North American Man/Boy Love
Association has been this magazine, which grew from a photocopied broad
sheet to a sophisticated publication with excellent graphics and variety
of text. Any given issue might contain erotic fiction, news reports,
political analysis, calls to action, reviews of films and paens to boy
actors. Ariel's Pages offers back issues of the NAMBLA Bulletin both for
collectors archiving the publications of this historic sexual liberation
organization and for neophytes who want to use the magazine to get an
idea of what NAMBLA is all about. Older issues are especially rare, so
send for a list of back issues in stock before ordering specific numbers
at $5.00 each. For a broader view, send $30.00 for ten magazines (our
choice of issues).

Order BUL plus volume # and issue # ($5.00 each) or VPB for a 10-pack
($30.00)

NAMBLA Topics, edited by David Miller

Each issue of NAMBLA Topics focuses on a single subject of interest to men
who love boys.

NAMBLA Topics 1, Anatomy of a Media Attack.

An analysis of how a gay paper in Philadelphia treated a story about man/
boy love becomes a study in how the media prints lies and how to fight
back combining media reports, exchanges aired in "Letters to the Editor"
columns and reflections by political activists, "Topics One" puts bias
under the spotlight.

Order TOP 1, $2.00

NAMBLA Topics 2, Criminal Justice?

Men imprisoned for sex with boys speak out on their lives behind bars.
The pieces here range from reports on daily life in jail to more reflective
works the psychology on incarceration, written by prisoners of war in the
battle for sexual freedom.

Order TOP 2, $3.95

NAMBLA Topics 3, Anarchist of Love.

Philosopher John Henry Mackay was an artist as well as a political
thinker who created a body of literature exploring his sexual fascination
for adolescent boys. Hubert Kennedy's biographical sketch shows how the
philosopher's love of boys influenced his political thinking and how he
lived out his politics and philosophy in his life with boys.

Order TOP 3, $6.50

NAMBLA Topics 4, Boys Speak Out on Man/Boy Love.

In letters, short essays and interviews, boys tell their own stories of
sexual friendships with men. Many stories focus on the way boys draw from
their relationships the power to change their lives.

Order TOP 4, $3.95

NAMBLA Topics 5, Poems of Love and Liberation.

Classical and modern, famous and obscure, poets have celebrated man/boy
love. This collection of their work includes pieces by Shakespeare, W. H.
Auden, Paul Goodman and Hakim Bey.

Order TOP 5, $3.95

NAMBLA Topics 6, Not Fade Away: Selections from the NAMBLA Bulletin.

The first volume in a series of mini-anthologies drawn from the NAMBLA
Bulletin, "Not Fade Away" collects pieces from the mid-80s. Even in this
small sample, an idea of the impressive range, vitality and insight of the
long-running magazine is evident. Illustrated with graphics that echo the
variety of the text.

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Ophelia Editions Catalog

It is not generally the policy of Ariel's Pages to include the works
of visual artists, either painters or photographers. Ophelia Editions
offers the work of many recognized masters, including Jock Sturges, Sally
Mann, and Wilhelm von Gloeden. The company has just expanded its material
featuring photography, painting and drawings of boys. Ophelia Editions also
sells rare and out-of-print books, and the catalog includes books of liter-
ature and "belles lettres," sociology and the politics of censorship, and
naturism.

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Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia

This scholarly journal of pedophilia has earned mainstream respect with
its attention to research and wide-ranging curiosity. "Paidika" devotes
serious attention to issues that simply would not be discussed if the
magazine did not exist. The editorial board includes an impressive variety
of academics, writers, researchers and professionals. Each volume features
both historical and cultural material as well as psychological, medical and
legal reports of interest.

Paidika 5: Interview: Gunter Schmidt; Boy Love in the Urdu "Ghazal"
Tariq Rahman; Man-Boy Sexual Relationships in a Cross-Cultural
Perspective by Robert Bausermam; Jerome Duquesnoy the Younger:
Two Studies.

Paidika 6: Interview: Kenneth Plummer; Boylove, Folksong, and Literature
in Central Asia by Ingeborg Baldauf; Erick Pontalley on Celtic
Pederasty in Pre-Roman Gaul.

Paidika 7: Interview with John Money; Pasteur Joseph Douce: 1945-1990;
The CRIES Affaire in Belgium by Casimer Elsen; Street Urchins:
Antonio Mancini (1852-1930) by Will H. L. Ogrinc.

Paidika 8: Special Women's Issue- Pat Califia on Feminism, Paedophilia,
and Children's Rights; A Crush on my Girl-Scout Leader by Nora
de Ronde; Sexual Revolution and the Liberation of Children, an
Interview: Kate Millett by Mark Blasius.

Paidika 9: Theo Sandfort on children's sexuality; Jan Schuijer on the
Dutch age-of-consent laws; Francois Augieras (1925-1971) by
Gert Hekma.

Paidika 10: Guest editorial, poems and drawing by Graham Ovendon;
interview with Gilbert Herdt; The Sexual Experiences of
Children, Part II by Theo Sandfort.

Paidika 11: Hubert Kennedy on Karol Szymankowski's boy-love novel; Gode
Davis on the satanic ritual abuse phenomenon; Marina Knopf on
Sexual Contacts Between Women and Children.

Paidika 12: Peter Lamborn Wilson on the role of the boy in Sufi ritual;
Morris Fraser on boy icons in French art; Jan Schuijer on
Legal developments in the Netherlands.

In celebration of the publication of Dares to Speak, Ariel's Pages offers
a 25% discount on issues of Paidika, the source for the articles collected
in the anthology.

Order any issues, 1-12, for $12 per issue.

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XY Magazine

Choose between two issues of this bi (monthly) magazine designed for teen
and twenty gays boys and those who like to read about/look at/obsess over
them. Issue number nine is devoted to the Future, with a fashion spread
focusing on boys in Oklahoma. (And yes, boys in Oklahoma do- you can see
for yourself- have plenty of fashion.) Issue ten is dedicated to California
with a twisted look at "skewl" days. The banner on the cover reads: "yng
str8 grls agree- xy boys are hot." So in this lifetime, along side gay boys
fetishizing straights as objects of desire, girls can get really into fags
as sex toys. Way cool.

Order XY 9 or XY 10, $7.00 each.

**POETRY**

The Badboy Book of Erotic Poetry, edited by David Laurents (Masquerade
Books, 399 pp)

This 400-page collection includes at least two dozen poems explicitly
about boy-love. Nine fine pieces by Antler open the book, and through-
out the volume, pederasty is easily the favorite subject in this com-
prehensive anthology of gay poetry about sex. Prudish boy-lovers might
be embarrassed, since the poems are often about love, occasionally about
romance, but always about sex- kissing, fondling, fucking, sucking and a
host of interesting variations on that theme. The variety of voices
"Badboy" hears on the subject of boy-love is as impressive as the number.
And to find them chiming loudly in a chorus of gay writers celebrating all
sorts of sex is refreshing.

Order BBE, $7.50

The Dream Police, by Dennis Cooper (Grove Press, 134 pp)

This collection of poetry by novelist Dennis Cooper includes early work
that's been out of print for many years. It's a good chance to see what's
the same and what's different about this singular writer's work since he
began publishing in 1969. The fascination with sex and violence, with the
body as flesh and blood, with obsession and fetish that marks his novels is
present in these poems, but there's also a playfulness not much evident in
his prose till very recently.

Order DPL, $12.50

O Tribe That Loves Boys, by Abu Nowas/Hakim Bey (Entimos Press, 48 pp)

Hakim Bey extraordinary volume of works by Arab boy-love poet Abu Nowas
is "a pseudo-translation made by a poet who doesn't know the original
language." Instead of dry scholarship, Hakim relies on the passion he
shares with a writer who lived half a world away 1200 years ago. The
result is a collection of verse that boy-lovers will find at once wildly
exotic end strangely familiar. Presented with a biographical essay re-
calling Nowas' outlandish antics in the service of both boys and poetry,
the book is elegantly bound and printed in a limited edition, illustrated
with photographs that share the spirit of the text.

Order OTT, $15.50

Yes Is Such a Long Word, by Richard George Murray (Entimos Press, 46 pp)

"Yes ls Such a Long Word" is a tiny, elegant book of very short poems by
Richard George Murray. Where the "Badboy" collection scores with variety,
George Murray's work explores one theme in depth. Even the few poems not
explicitly about loving boys (which are mostly about loving cats!) seem to
share the emotional ambiance of those that are. George Murray also sticks
resolutely to the short form, often fitting more than one poem on a single
page. Yet he's able to imbue a few short lines with impressive wit and
warmth. The work opens up his world, so the brief poems invite readers to
explore in their imaginations the pictures quickly sketched in the poet's
scenarios. This is the kind of poetry book to bring smiles to people who
don't generally care for poetry.

Order YIS, $15.50

**TALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD**

The Delight of Hearts, translated by E.A. Lacey (Gay Sunshine Press, 234
pp)

Subtitled "what you will not find in any book," this anthology from
the Arab Middle Ages was compiled by Ahmad al-Tifashi almost a thousand
years ago. But with its focus on "strange facts, anecdotes and jokes,"
al-Tifashi's collection proves that camp was alive and well even then.
Chapter headings (like "the wittiest and most refined poems about
hustlers") make it immediately apparent this is no dry-as-dust history.
In fact, the book is alive with smart-talking queens, wily hustlers,
lecherous johns, love-sick poets, passionate boy-lovers and cowering
closet cases.

Order DOH, $16.50

Gay Tales of the Samurai, by Ihara Saikaku (Alamo Square Press Books, 110
pp)

The samurai warriors of feudal Japan are legendary in the West for their
courage, loyalty and strict devotion to the code of honor known as bushido.
Less familiar to those who learned of bushido through movies chronicling
the swordplay and intrigue of samurai life is the tradition of gay love
between these fierce fighters and their adolescent pages or wakashu. The
Japanese record of this courtly love, the way of shudo, extends back 300
years to Ihara Saikaku's "Glorious Tales of Homosexuality." "Gay Tales
of the Samurai" features selections from Saikaku's books translated by E.
Powys Mathers. Based on true stories handed down over generations, these
accounts reveal both the yearning for ideal love and the dark samurai pre-
occupation with death, including the custom of seppuki, or ritual suicide
by disembowelment.

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Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies, by Arno Schmitt
and Iehoda Sofer (Harrington Park Press, 201 pp)

The Moslem world remains, for many Westerners, a very hidden, very foreign
culture. Differences in notions about homosexual acts and gender roles can
make relations among males difficult for outsiders to understand. This
volume collects the impressions of both insiders and outsiders, relying on
personal narratives and first-hand description as well as analytic essays
and academic treatises. Together they provide a vivid and fascinating
portrait of the erotic life of men in Islamic societies.

Order SAE, $16.50

**VIDEOS**

Abuse, directed by Arthur Bressan

Arthur Bressan Jr.'s unconventional love story has now come to video. Abuse
is the story of a student filmmaker who finds in a hospital emergency room
the "star" for his documentary about child abuse. Thomas Carroll is a l4-
year-old New Yorker savaged by sadistic parents. Ashamed to take showers
after gym because of the cigarette burns that mark his chest, he reaches
out for help to Larry Porter, a college student whose film project offers
the boy a desperate chance for escape. When Larry and Thomas fall in love,
however, both discover that building a life together holds challenges
neither of them anticipated. Bresson's film, shot in black-and-white in
16mm, had only a limited theatrical release. The video release offers a
first chance for many to view this uncompromising and original story.

Order VAB, $75.00

Chicken Hawk, directed by Adi Sideman

Your chance to view the film that sparked controversy wherever it was
shown. Why did Newsday's reviewer call Chicken Hawk "frightening" ?
Simply because, given the chance to present a point of view clearly,
speakers from the North American Man/Boy Love Association made too much
sense. No endorsement of boy-lovers, Ari Sideman's film gives NAMBLA's
opponents ample time and takes a few cheap shots in editing and present-
ation. But the chance to hear boy-lovers, unmediated by indignant talk-
show hosts and know-it-all "experts" is valuable. Nothing hides the
obvious pride, sincerity and decency of men who risk harassment, prison
and even death because they refuse to hide their love of boys.

Order VCH, $40.00

Murmur of the Heart, directed by Louis Malle

Murmur of the Heart is a poignant, romantic account of a boy's sexual
initiation and his complex relationship with his vivacious mother. Young
Laurent Chevalier is almost ready to leave the world of childhood, discov-
ering with a sense of wonder both the pleasure and hypocrisy of adult
life. Trapped on the cusp of manhood, the bright, sensitive boy is sent
to recuperate from a heart murmur in a luxurious mountain spa. Witness to
his confusion and fear, Laurent's mother provides a sensual expression of
her love for her son as a gift to help him make a difficult transition.
Told with humor and warmth, Murmur of the Heart is propelled by Benoit
Ferreux's masterful performance as young Laurent. Almost banned by the
French Movie Commission before it's release, the film was ultimately
nominated for an Academy Award.

Order VMH, $30.00

Olivier, Olivier, directed by Agnieszka Holland

Olivier Olivier is based on a true story, a mystery that revolves
around questions of love, family and truth. While cycling through the
gentle countryside near his home in Provence, nine-year-old Olivier Duval
disappeared. The loss of the child nearly destroyed the family, but his
apparent reappearance six years later proves an even greater challenge.
When a French policeman presents a 15-year-old Parisian street hustler
as the Duval's missing child, his mother is willing to accept him without
question. But Olivier's older sister doubts his identity, and her search
for answers only raises troubling questions. Where does the truth lie:
in the small scar that mark's the boy's smooth skin, or half remembered
nursery rhymes? It's finally the teen's friendship with the young neighbor
that provides the disturbing truth about Olivier's fate. Agnieszka Holland,
director of Europa Europa draws a sleepily sensual performance from the
teenage Olivier.

Order VOO, $30.00

Spetters, directed by Paul VerHoeven

Three Dutch youngsters face the decisions that come with the end of school
days and the dawn of adult life. Drawn to the world of motorcycle racing,
they dream of fame and fortune, they struggle with the small setbacks and
genuine tragedy. When they meet an ambitious woman with plans of her own,
new pressures afflict their friendships. And one of the boys is dealing
with pressures all his own. Driven by fear and hatred to attack gay
couples cruising the neighborhood where the friends hang out, he's forced
to confront his real feelings about sexuality when he's the victim of a
gang rape. "Spetters" is now out of print, and only a few copies remain
available.

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