Quotes from Simon Sheppard

One might—if one were, say, a gay sex writer—make a case that there's still a vibrant role for queer dirty words. While highly commodified mass-market DVD porn and its kinkier "specialty" cousins shows how sex looks , erotic texts are still the best mode to convey how sex—and its pesky cousin, desire—feels, and what it all means.

This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked. Redeeming social value, indeed.

it nevertheless powerfully conveys the Arcadian dream of a great, cross- cultural brotherhood of buttsex, a pioneer porntopia where sodomy reigns supreme and there is no poison oak.

It's certainly hard to find fault with a work that quotes Shakespeare, Homer, and a dirty limerick about "the young man from Oswego.

Redeeming social value, indeed.