Best Gay Erotica 2009

by Richard Labonté (Editor), James Lear (Selection & Introduction), Shane Allison (Contributor)

Cleis’ Best Erotica series is the best-selling gay erotica series in America and with good reason. It sets the standard for erotic writing with searing action and stories that are smart, edgy, authentic, and wickedly inventive. Designed for your reading pleasure, Best Gay Erotica 2009 includes 20 of the hottest, best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in print this year.

Featuring the works of Simon Sheppard, Jeff Mann, Jamie Freeman, Robert Patrick, and more, these down-and-dirty page-turners showcase unique and in-depth characters that reflect gay lives not often found in erotic stories. From casual hook-ups to highly charged street encounters to dark backrooms, the men in this collection all let their lust and passions loose for all to read and enjoy.

Genres: Erotica, Anthologies, Gay Erotica, LGBT, Gay

223 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2008

About the author

i read a lot of books. i review many of them. i edit many anthologies. i edit technical writing so it reads more like real english. i live on a small island with a man and a dog (tiger-lily, r.i.p). once upon a time, i was a bookseller.

Reviews

[KatieMc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why this book? Because I am a newly minted James Lear fan and his name is on it. And it was available at the library. This book of short stories is a great reminder that gay erotica is a different animal from mm romance. Check your feelz at the door and read it for the bawdy humor.

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Would you please shut up, you pretentious wanker, so I can concentrate on sucking cock?" -- This is the best line in the entire collection of stories. So that should tell you something.

[Kevin Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some really good erotica in here, some better than others. You just have to read it to see what's going to meet your tastes.

[micedrtyt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Favorites & Special (★★★★★): Mass Ass, Knives
Okay entertainment (★★★★): Twice Dicked, The Doctor is In
Okay because I like the author: Abducting Frodo
Others are trash.

[Hana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Temporary by Tulsa Brown and the Opera House by Natty Soltesz are my cuts. The former is hopeless and weirdly romantic, like drowning in clear blue water semi-voluntarily on a cold winter night; the latter reminds me of an old fav song– Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim, stupid and lovely.

I've been reading this on and off for about a year. I don't know if it has something to do with the first few stories that I feel most stories in this collection are a bit sad.

[Natty Soltesz]

"The Opera House"

[Tara Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Because I definitely admit to reading trash now and again.

[Jamie Freeman]

My first published short story "Don't Touch" was reprinted in this Lambda Literary Award winning anthology.