Reviews for The Hosken report

The average rating for The Hosken report based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-24 00:00:00 Oscar Drum This was a very odd anthology! I enjoyed some of the stories and was anthropologically fascinated by others. For instance, there seemed to be a common thread of fantasies about sex with feminists. But not in the yay, feminists are at home with their sexual selves and are therefore good in bed way. In the 'I, manly man, am sexually attractive to feminists! Even if I am a man! So there!' way (the most interesting of these was a voyeurism story about a chap who was persuaded to appear naked before an invisible of audience of feminists who would insult him for the sins of his gender; and then they also asked to see him masturbate). To add to this, there was one story about a correspondance between a pro-porn feminist and a sex-negative feminist, which ended in the brilliant line "so, dear editors, that is why this piece is late: I have started a mutual masturbation affair with a MacDworkinite female lawyer, straight and married". All of the men in the section entitled 'men' I hated, most of the stories in 'women in charge' were actually about men; stories about women had a worrying tendency to "goddess-self" imagery, except for the above-mentioned story about the mutual-masturbating porn-debating feminists. 'Women alone' was probably the most sympathetic section, but not necessarily the most interesting. The group sex stories included a sort of memoir by a now-retired chap who'd been in publishing in the 50s: I didn't *like* him, he was self-satisfied, smug about getting so many ladies and about having "the balls" to publish certain racy texts. But it was an interesting read. Especially with a view to how casual sex might be conducted prior to widely-available contraception and prior to AIDS - it made an interesting primary source in that regard. Most of the poetry was dreadful except for one great poem about tits.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-02 00:00:00 Robbin Young As a whole the stories are witty and interesting in a way that is rare for erotica. Apart from the one suspect story that I didn't quite understand (Chester and the Conscious Cuckold)there seems to be something here for everyones taste. I found a few of them to be incredibly humerous but in a good way ie: funny ha ha not funny lame. One of my faves has to be "Jewish Sexuality, such as it is Volume 1". Also, the pointers at the end on how to write good erotica should be mandatory reading for anyone even remotely considering attempting to write about sex. Steamy, smart and wickedly funny indeed.