Kinkorama : Dispatches from the Front Lines of Perversion Book

Kinkorama: Dispatches From The Front Lines Of Perversion, like its author, is more difficult to define than it ought to be. At a glance this book is a well-organized overview of the variety of kink and kinksters to be found in gay social and not-so-social circles. Delightfully though, Sheppard doesn't stop there. Hilarious, shocking, frustrating, and engaging, it's everything else about this book that makes it well worth the dime and time to read it.

Unpretentious, yet still philosophical, this volume does more than a once-over of the superficial, fago-centric, members-only crowd, giving it the verbal paddling it's long been needing. Yes, he even briefly takes on the ultra pc stroller-pushing dykes and daddies. With every dried sweat and semen encrusted memory, Sheppard ponders the very thin line between enabling harmful behavior and ennobling naughtier sexual gratification. As well as, when and whether to cross it--seemingly always with the same, "How can I say no," response.

His book, like his experience, is thorough. Straight, bi, and cyber boys, pushy bottoms, commanding tops and, if I remember correctly, a bear of a man for good measure. Why read this book? Really, with this many boys, feet, fists, dresses, ropes, diapers, and leather, how can you say no?