Product Description

Gay leathersex fantasies set in Hawai'i and composed as a symphony by the maestro of BDSM/Leathersex writing, Joseph W. Bean. Erotic stories of hard sex and happy men who happen to live in Eden, starting gently and ending in an over-the-top leathersex orgy and love fest.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2604319 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 172 pages

Review
Joseph Bean, along with a small handful of male fetish erotica writers, is completely incapable of writing a throwaway story. And these four stories that comprise "Trouble In Paradise" will stay with you long after you've had your warm-up read.

Composed (as the author states) as a "symphony in four movements," each of the tales leads thematically into the next, building in intensity from one to the other. The brief opener, "Mahu On Front Street," is barely even a sex story as much as it is an eight page exposition detailing outsiders...

But those three brief themes are just the prelude to "Trouble In Paradise's" thunderous main event, "Aloha Rusty." Returning to the early theme of insiders and outsiders, Barry, a California Lawyer travels to Hawaii and confronts long repressed desires and his own fear of a past.

About the Author
Joseph W. Bean has been hanging around radical sex for a very long time, and he has a habit of writing about anything he hangs around, sex included.

His first brush with the attention on the national level came from writing for, editing and, more than anything, publishing his own editorials in Drummer Magazine starting in the late 1980's

He was the first Executive Director of the Leather Archives & Museum, serving from 1997 to 2002. He now lives in paradise, also known as the island of Maui in Hawai'i.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Foreword by the author All of the stories in this book were written in March 1996. The kernels of real experience they are based on had happened in earlier times, but all in the 1990s. As I began to write, I had a vision of the entire cycle of tales as a symphony—a metaphor I have often used when attempting to teach people how to shape an SM scene—with four movements. Once that image settled in, it could not be escaped. The first story, Mahu on Front Street, is a minuet. That is not a modern way to open a musical composition, but it is a good way to open a sexual adventure. The minuet has the appearance of a very formal greeting, repeated in a variety of forms. This minuet is all pianissimo. The second story, No Outlet, is a bad situation turned to good. In fact, it is turned to good so powerfully as to resolve what might have seemed bad. As the second movement of my symphonic composition, it is a fanfare in a minor key. The third tale, Yesterday’s Boy, is a rondo to be sure. Its pace varies and changes rapidly, but every note leads back to a familiar note, every completed passage leads back to a familiar passage. Finally, the long movement, Aloha Rusty, is both a summary of the earlier themes and a reflection on them. It breaks new ground and drags the “listener” into new ideas, perhaps even tending toward an involuntary state and some magical moments. Nonetheless, as music, I would call it largo allargando because the theme of the story (music) is not really happening on the ground in Hawai‘i at all. That is what I have written. I doubt that any reader will read exactly that and it doesn’t matter. What matters is to get into it, get off on it and enjoy.

Customer Reviews

Grand Paradise
Joseph Bean, along with a small handful of male fetish erotica writers, is completely incapable of writing a throwaway story. And these four stories that comprise "Trouble In Paradise" will stay with you long after you've had your warm-up read.

Composed (as the author states) as a "symphony in four movements," each of the tales leads thematically into the next, building in intensity from one to the other. The brief opener, "Mahu On Front Street," is barely even a sex story as much as it is an eight page exposition detailing outsiders and insiders, and how we view each other. From there, the stories progress from the splendor of a chance meeting to the evocative tale of a gay father who satisfies his curiosity as pertaining to his own son's fascination with dominance and submission.

But those three brief themes are just the prelude to "Trouble In Paradise's" thunderous main event, "Aloha Rusty." Returning to the early theme of insiders and outsiders, Barry, a California Lawyer travels to Hawaii and confronts long repressed desires and his own fear of a past that he could never exorcise. At the same time, the lust over the ranch owner, Rusty, has clung to him for so long that all of his drives since childhood have been in service of bringing Barry to his paradise. Barry finds himself all but consumed by Rusty's slaves/employees, while Rusty struggles with the fears that Barry will reject decades of carefully constructed memories and wants. Not to mention that the sexual situations are incredibly torrid and steamy (after all, this book is a series of leather-sex stories).

Both Barry and Russell skirt the separation of fantasy and reality as they dive headfirst into a Master-Rancher and his ranch hands' fantasy sequence that will certainly stiffen your imagination, but Mr. Bean also infuses his heat with emotion. Through all the stories in "Trouble In Paradise," you'll feel the real emotions invested in the main characters, and the visual details of cruising gay (and kinky) Hawaii. This will be a book that you'll be able to travel back to.