Full Body Contact: Sexy, Sweaty Men of Sport

by Greg Herren (Editor)

Football, wrestling, hockey, rugby...the hot bodies in these stories slam into each other on and off the field.

Greg Herren is a journalist and writer living in New Orleans. He is the author of Murder in the Rue Dauphine, and the former editor of the Lambda Book Report. He has a serious wrestling fetish, and plans to do nothing about it.

Genres: Gay Erotica, LGBT

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2002

About the author

Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor. Former editor of Lambda Book Report, he is also a co-founder of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, which takes place in New Orleans every May. He is the author of ten novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune “the most honest depiction of life in post-Katrina New Orleans published thus far.” He co-edited Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans, which also won the Lambda Literary Award. He has published over fifty short stories in markets as varied as Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine to the critically acclaimed anthology New Orleans Noir to various websites, literary magazines, and anthologies. His erotica anthology FRATSEX is the all time best selling title for Insightoutbooks. Under his pseudonym Todd Gregory, he published the bestselling erotic novel Every Frat Boy Wants It and the erotic anthologies His Underwear and Rough Trade (to be released by Bold Strokes Books in 2009).

A long-time resident of New Orleans, Greg was a fitness columnist and book reviewer for Window Media for over four years, publishing in the LGBT newspapers IMPACT News, Southern Voice, and Houston Voice. He served a term on the Board of Directors for the National Stonewall Democrats, and served on the founding committee of the Louisiana Stonewall Democrats. He is currently employed as a public health researcher for the NO/AIDS Task Force.

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wasn't sure what to expect from Full Body Contact: Sexy, Sweaty Men of Sport, and I'm still not totally sure what I read. In a good way, mostly. Herren, Greg mashes together genres like a kid dumping every candy into one bowl, and somehow it works, thanks to a main character who's just stubborn enough to hold it all together. The worldbuilding gets confusing, and I got lost around the middle. Pick it up if you like weird, ambitious stuff. Pass if you like your stories simple.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Greg Herren uses Full Body Contact to remind us that history is full of quiet enforcers who were just "following standard procedure" while enabling harm.