The first is an advice book,
Men Are Pigs, But We Love Bacon: Not-So-Straight Answers from America's Most Outrageous Gay Sex Columnist by Michael Alvear.
If you're looking for warmth and compassion about your sexual worries, you picked the wrong book...
Yes, you'll get all your burning and why-is-it-burning questions answered, but the advice is coming from a son-of-a-bitch with a breathtaking gift for the gratuitous insult.
In these pages you'll find medical answers to everything from how you can ejaculate farther to how you can take -ahem- more cargo on your loading dock. Alvear answers questions with the compassion of a caffeine addict out of coffee, lining up a panel of doctors and psychologists against the wall and beating the truth out of them. The result is a marriage of impeccably accurate information, politically incorrect opinion and withering sarcasm.
Because the questions come from gay men all over the country, they're like a peephole into the anxieties, concerns and worries that gay men have about sex.
Here's a sampling of what you'll learn:
Only 6% of the population need extra-large condoms. Get over it.
The average erect penis is 5.1" long and 4.8" around. Unless you're in a chat room. then double it.
Kegel exercises will give you harder hard-ons and more powerful orgasms. But then, so will an 18-year-old.
50% of men on anti-depressants experience sexual side effects. And no, having an affair is not considered a side effect you can blame on medicine.
Too funny.
The other one is.
Sex Toys 101: A Playfully Uninhibited Guide by Rachel Venning and Claire Cavanah, founders of Toys in Babeland.
Lordy this one is extensively pepperd with photos, FAQs, humor and information. Found in the Sex section of Borders, only $16. It is extremely interesting and funto read. Did you know they have fingertip-vibrators, that slide over your finger for ease of use? Cool beans that. And written primarily for the women in mind, though it does have a chapter called
The Men's Room: Toys for Boys.