Product Description: Book by Preston, John

Product Description: “Tough yet sensitive, Franny is a tribute to those who have helped so many in the current generation of gay men and women escape the prison of individual isolation.”—Library JournalIn Franny, the Queen of Provincetown, John Preston created one of his most memorable characters from among the more than 30 books he authored or edited over his storied career...read more

Product Description: John Preston brings it back to the basics: a hand on a neck, a boot that needs a spit shine, a trick who leaves with bruises and sweet memories. In books such as the S/M classic Mr. Benson, Preston explored power exchange in all its battered beauty...read more

Product Description: Book by Preston, John

Book by Preston, John

Product Description: Book by Preston, John

Product Description: “Volunteers needed for a very private, very elegant S/M party for a discreet group of ladies and gentlemen to be held in San Francisco. Only the very willing and the experienced need apply. . .”And only a virtuoso of erotic fiction could build a spellbinding novel from the planning and preparation for an S/M party...read more

Offers guidelines for avoiding the transmission of the AIDS virus, suggests alternative sexual activities for gay couples, and uses erotic stories to illustrate safe practices

Product Description: There are good-looking, willing young men in every hidden corner of America — men like Tim and Marc who know a worthy top when they see him. John Preston’s powerful and darkly insightful classic The Love of a Master follows the Master’s patient, deliberate, and wickedly inventive training of his two boyish but determined devotees as they release themselves to their submissive natures, to the “fear and anticipation” that come with true service...read more

Product Description: Book by Preston, John

Inside information is given for the main areas of the country along with the hard facts, such as lodging, eating, and shopping

Determined to escape his stagnant life in a New England mill town, Timothy allows himself to be willingly enslaved at a lush estate by a mysterious man known only as Montclair, where his most sensual fantasies and deepest fears become real as he succumbs to his master's every wish and desire. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: No sooner had the first generation of gay writers emerged in this country than they found themselves caught up in the violent maelstron of the AIDS epidmeic. Here are their reports from the midst of an ongoing struggle, personal dispatches from the frontlines by some of the most accomplished writers of our time...read more

Twenty-seven gay writers--including Andrew Holleran and Christopher Bram--explore the places they think of as their homes and create a telling portrait of gay identity, culture, and community. Reprint.

Product Description: In an era of changing attitudes, this ground-breaking anthology offers an exciting selection of gay erotic writing from the early days of pulp paper and underground distribution to today's imaginatively provocative writing. While providing a fascinating look at the course of gay consciousness over the past fifty years, it also, most enthrallingly, offers the best sexually arousing fiction centering on gay men...read more

Mr. Benson is the compelling story of a young man’s quest for the perfect master. In a West Village leather bar, he finds wealthy, sophisticated, exacting Aristotle Benson, who leads him down the path of erotic enlightenment, teaching him to accept cruelty as love, anguish as affection, and ultimately, Mr. Benson as his master.If John Preston, the masterly, handsome author of more than 30 books, was himself a gay icon, his character Mr. Benson defined the culture of gay sex for an entire generation. When Mr. Benson appeared in the pre-AIDS early 1980s, its unabashed celebration of male sexuality made it a cult favorite among gay men, many of whom wore T-shirts declaring that they were "looking for Mr. Benson." The novel's fresh voice and insights into identity, desire, power, and love influenced a generation of writers and editors, including Anne Rice, Samuel Delany, Michael Lowenthal, Laura Antoniou, Joan Nestle, Michael Rowe, and Cecilia Tan. Mr. Benson was Preston's first novel and was followed by many more books from the proud, self-styled "pornographer."