The Joy of Gay Sex has educated generations of gay men on blow jobs, cruising, fisting, and gonorrhea — and perhaps just as subversive, it also includes an equal number of passages of a nonsexual nature.
Co-writers Dr. Charles Silverstein and novelist Edmund White wanted to create a first-of-its-kind guidebook for every aspect of the gay experience.
The book has been seized by customs agents around the world, burned, and banned. But it’s also gone on to be translated into five languages and was revised in 1993 and then again in 2006 (co-authored by Silverstein and Felice Picano).And who can forget the drawings?
The biting of a nipple, the curl of pubic hair — no detail was left out. The images were intended to be as stimulating as the.