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  The Big Penis Book

 
The Big Penis Book under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $59.99
Sale: $41.62
 
Manufacturer: TASCHEN America Llc
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.23
Publication Date: 2008-06-25
Reading Level: 384
 
Description: When it comes to pleasure, size doesn't matter; as we all know it s quality, not quantity, that counts. But let's admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2% of the world's population, this rare accessory will always fascinate.

In The Big Penis Book we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to depict the male entirely nude. Photographers include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with information about each of their models. And if this isn t enough, the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness Book of Records Norma Stitz featured in The Big Book of Breasts! Can you guess what body part Dian is dissecting next?

 

  Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America

 
Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $23.95
Sale: $11.97
 
Manufacturer: Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Hardcover
Author: Mitchell Gold::Mindy Drucker
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group, LLC
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Reading Level: 416
 
Description: A mental health crisis faces American teens right now--and it is one we can solve. Hundreds of thousands of gay teens face traumatic depression, fear, rejection, persecution, and isolation--usually alone. Studies show they are 190 percent more likely to used drugs or alcohol and four times more likely to attempt suicide. Homophobia and discrimination are at the heart of their pain. Love, support, and acceptance--all within our power to give--can save them.

This book is for: clergy, parents, educators, and politicians who cause harm with their words and actions; parents of gay teens; teens navigating this difficult time; and fair-minded people who want to help end the harm. Here are revealing stories by forty diverse Americans, some well known and some not, plus insights from straight clergy and parents explaining their support of gay people as whole human beings guaranteed equal rights by our Constitution.


 

  Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

 
Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $21.95
Sale: $12.50
 
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: C. J. Pascoe
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7640835109794
Publication Date: 2007-06-04
Reading Level: 240
 
Description: High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.

 

  The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

 
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $15.95
Sale: $8.99
 
Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Alan Downs
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.76620973
Publication Date: 2006-05-30
Reading Level: 224
 
Description: A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity and how to overcome it

The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexuality, and, encouragingly, unprecedented acceptability in society. Yet despite the progress of the recent past, gay men still find themselves asking, "Are we really better off?"

The inevitable byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, a shame gay men may strive to obscure with a faade of beauty, creativity, or material success. Drawing on contemporary psychological research, the author's own journey to be free of anger and of shame, as well as the stories of many of his friends and clients, The Velvet Rage outlines the three distinct stages to emotional well-being for gay men. Offering profoundly beneficial strategies to stop the insidious cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior, The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that will influence the public discourse on gay culture, and positively change the lives of gay men who read it.


 

  Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son

 
Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $14.95
Sale: $8.95
 
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Leroy Aarons
Publisher: HarperOne
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.389664092
Publication Date: 1996-09-20
Reading Level: 288
 
Description: Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life.

Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be "healed," then anguished over his suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth.

As told through Bobby's poignant journal entries and his mother's reminiscences, Prayers for Bobby is at once a moving personal story, a true profile in courage, and a call to arms to parents everywhere.


 

  What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality

 
What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $14.00
Sale: $8.10
 
Manufacturer: Alamo Square Distributors
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Daniel A. Helminiak
Publisher: Alamo Square Distributors
Dewey Decimal Number: 241
Publication Date: 2000-04
Reading Level: 152
 

 

  GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary

 
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $16.95
Sale: $10.55
 
Manufacturer: Alyson Books
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Alyson Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.766
Publication Date: 2002-08-01
Reading Level: 320
 
Description: Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity.

 

  The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life

 
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $20.50
Sale: $15.60
 
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Michael Warner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
Publication Date: 1999-11-01
Reading Level: 227
 
Description: The Trouble with Normal argues passionately against same-sex marriage, but here's the twist: not because it denigrates the institution of marriage, but because it perpetuates the cultural shame attached to sex between consenting but unmarried adults. When gay men and lesbians try to claim that they're just like "normal folk," Michael Warner writes, they do a profound disservice to other queer folk who choose not to live in monogamous or matrimonial bliss and who believe that the solution to being stigmatized for your sexuality is not to pretend it doesn't exist. Same-sex marriage advocates, he continues, often seem to be willfully blind to the cultural ramifications of their position, viewing marriage as "an intensified and deindividuated form of coming out." They don't seem to realize that if society validates their relationships, other types of relationships will by necessity be invalidated. (He also makes a strong case for the fight against sexual shame's being more than a queer issue, citing 1998's presidential impeachment crisis: "[Bill] Clinton, certainly, was not the first to discover how hard it is in this culture to assert any dignity when you stand exposed as a sexual being.") Extending his analysis, Warner shows how the championing of married gays and lesbians as "normal" is part of the same cultural climate that leads to "quality of life" crackdowns against queercentric businesses--as is already underway in New York City--and a deliberate sabotage of safer-sex education that puts millions of Americans at continued risk of exposure to HIV. Warner's precise, straightforward argument is enlivened by numerous sharp zingers, as when he accuses Andrew Sullivan of "breath[ing] new and bitchy life into Jesuitical pieties" about sexual morality. The Trouble with Normal is a bold, provocative book that forces readers to reconsider what sexual liberation really means. --Ron Hogan

 

  Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star

 
Out of the Blue: Confessions of an Unlikely Porn Star under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $14.95
Sale: $8.46
 
Manufacturer: Running Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Paperback
Author: Blue Blake
Publisher: Running Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
Publication Date: 2008-09-08
Reading Level: 304
 
Description:
Out of the Blue is a hilarious autobiographical romp that details the life of porn star turned director/producer Blue Blake and his adventures in the skin trade. Blue has worked with every major star in the industry and won many major awards and honors, including induction into the Gay Porn Legend Hall of Fame.

 

  Comin' at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield

 
Comin' at Ya!: The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield under Gay Men in The Books Store
Price: $27.95
Sale: $17.06
 
Manufacturer: Arsenal Pulp Press
Number of Items: 1
 
 
Binding: Spiral-bound
Author: David L. Chapman::Thomas Waugh
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Reading Level: 176
 
Description:

An amazing collection of full-color, sexually explicit 3-D photographs of men taken in the early 1950s by Denny Denfield. Denfield was an amateur physique photographer in California who worked as an accountant for the US Army. His photographs, never distributed publicly given their illegality at the time, display a skill, wit, and daring rarely seen, and with their rich Kodachrome colors and mid-century decors, can now be appreciated for their roguish, almost naïve charm.

The essay by David Chapman, from whose own private collection these photographs appear, sheds fascinating light on Denfield's secret life and work (stereography had been invented in 1850, but the advent of a compact, easy-to-use 3-D camera in 1947 allowed amateurs like Denfield to produce their own). A narrative by acclaimed writer Thomas Waugh (Lust Unearthed, Out/Lines, Gay Art: A Historic Collection) places Denfield's work in the historical context of homoerotic photography over the last century.

The 3-D photographs comprise dual images that "come alive" when viewed through the 3-D glasses, supplied with the book. Equal parts kitschy, informed, and sexy, Comin' at Ya! is a collection that is both fun and historically fascinating.


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