Product Description

A wide-ranging collection of stories about sex and sexuality, some funny, some frightening, and some amazing. Dirty Words is an exploration of both the beautiful and the disturbing landscapes of desire, which will excite and challenge you, both as a reader and an erotic explorer.

M. Christian is the editor of Eros Ex Machina, Midsummer Night's Dreams, Guilty Pleasures, and (with Simon Sheppard) Rough Stuff. His work can be seen in Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Friction, The Mammoth Book of Gay Erotica, and more than 100 other books and magazines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1842348 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 183 pages

Amazon.com Review
Among the best-written and most original of gay erotica collections in the past five years, M. Christian's twisted exploration of queer lust is full of filthy surprises. No wonder that the introduction is by Patrick Califia-Rice, that connoisseur of minority taste and shredded taboos. In "Echoes," a young man finds that despite their apparent differences, all of his tricks end up reminding him of his true love, Red, whom he killed and buried in the wilderness. In "Blue Boy," a jaded aesthete wanders through a city in which a specially-bred underclass, known as "Blues" for their blue skin, serve as willing murder victims for a populace that, like the Romans, demands that its blood lust be satisfied on a daily basis. Yes, there's plenty of violence here, but the brief, happy tale of dog-and-master love, "Puppy," wins the laurel for goofy perversion. A brainy supplement to more standard fare that passes for erotica.--Regina Marler

Review
"...I can honestly say that this is some of the best writing, period, that I've perused in the last year....." -- Patrick Califia-Rice's, from the special introduction to the volume

"M. Christian's stories are the fairy tales whispered to one another by dark angels whose hearts and mouths are brimming with lust." -- Michael Thomas Ford, Lambda Literary Award winner and editor of Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales for Men and Once Upon a Time: Erotic Fairy Tales for Women

"M. Christina's fiction has a sexy logic all its own. He's inventive and he's irreverent." -- Cecilia Tan, author of Black Feathers

"Reading these tales is like climbing on for a sexual magic carpet ride through different times and places, diverse bodies, and infinite possibilities." -- Carol Queen, author of The Leatherdaddy & the Femme

About the Author
For the last decade M.Christian has proven himself to be a true literary chameleon, establishing himself as a master of multi-orientation erotica with stories in such anthologies as Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, and so on and so forth as well as with the collections Dirty Words, Speaking Parts, The Bachelor Machine, and Filthy.

Customer Reviews

What an imagination this guy has!
It's true I read more than my share of erotica. So, I've naturally read many M. Christian stories. Prior to this book, I don't know if he had any books out that were all his own stories, so I can't say if this one is the first, but I think it is. It's definitely worth reading. It's supposedly for gay men but I really think anybody with an appreciation for a damn good story would enjoy these tales. The characters are so much more real and complex than in stories by other erotica writers. He's unconventional and a little bit wacko but I will continue to buy his work because it's so different from everybody else's.

Far deeper than most erotica
(Why is it that people who write bad reviews never have the guts to leave their name?) Anyway... I felt compelled to write about M. Christian's "Dirty Words" because I thoroughly enjoyed this book of his stories. I think it's his best work, full of a wide range of stories and themes. If you want jerk-off material, this isn't it. If you want fiction that's cleverly crafted and makes you look at the human condition as it really is, this is the book for you.

HOT AND BOTHERED
M. Christian writes the best gay erotica of any I've read, and he has the awards to prove it. His choice of words conveys imagery and incredible heat as well as humour, and, there is a surprising delicacy in his wording, which makes for a fine read.

Among my favorites . . . The Harley:What a way to execute winner takes all.
How Coyote Stole The Sun:I've always had a soft spot for wily tricksters and Coyote is the original.
The Puppy . . . well, the list goes on and on . . .

A must read book that is on my list for gift giving.

A.J. Heard, Santa Cruz, Ca.