First there was Starz, followed by More Starz. Then there was Ultimate Starz. Now we get Rising Starz (Star Books, $19.95), and it’s the best of them all. Its interviews with 45 XXX stars are compulsive, gobble-them-up reading. After all, who doesn’t want to know more about the real as well as the reel...
In Erotic Triggers (Bruno Gmünder, $52.99, but easily available discounted), Tom Bianchi continues to honor us with his work, taking us farther than ever before into his horny and ennobling sexuality. The book really delivers the goods. Ever since he began taking photographs in 1979, Bianchi’s career has been an on-going coming out. Each of...
From last Christmas season to this year’s, it’s been great for swank, jumbo art books. Tom of Finland XXX gave Tom’s oversized men the oversized layout that really shows them off, and Outside/Inside delivered classic and gorgeous full-color physique studies of Bruce of Los Angeles. Now add Private Moments – Bel Ami by Howard...
Several weeks ago, I gently criticized Jeffrey Escoffier for reporting in his history of porn, Bigger Than Life, that Bob Mizer’s mother knitted posing pouches for his models at AMG. I’ve never seen a knitted pouch, I scoffed. Sure enough, soon as my words hit paper, my eyes landed right in a patch of...
So many people have for so long been telling me I’ve simply got to write a history of porn that I’m truly relieved that Jeffrey Escoffier has done it and gotten me off the hook. Escoffier has written books on gay sexuality, politics, history, music and dance. He has written for the book review...
I gobbled up the interviews with 58 porn stars in Ultimate Starz with such quick, compulsive pleasure that when I was done I went back to the start and read them all again. Slower, but with just as much enjoyment. The book (Star Books Press; paperback; $24.95) is the third collection of interviews by...
Two decades of a busy, creative life making other people in the community famous haven’t resulted in much renown for Kent Taylor. That may be because his work as a photographer takes place behind the scenes. But you’ve seen his bright and bold clickography all over. From the very first Miss Trannyshack Calendar to...
It seems to have been a sad life, that of Harry Bush. Solitary, embittered, self-hating. Yet in his art, so outgoing, jovial and loving. Bush’s art calls up strapping young men who are just naturally, irrepressibly raunchy. See for yourself in the swell new collection of his work, Harry Bush Hard Boys (Green Candy...
Surprise No. 1: No, you didn’t miss the San Francisco Prime Timer’s 8th Annual Porn Sale. Usually held earlier in June, this year it kicks off Pride weekend, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, June 23. This year the sale, held in a funky garage at 3507 23rd St. (near Valencia), promises more DVDs,...
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