Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0879757345 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 167 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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A vivid but disturbing narrative I read this book when I was first coming out. While I don't recommend "Tom Smith" as any sort of a role model, the book helped me by ripping off the cover of what had been, from my perspective, an entirely concealed world of exceptionally common and abundant guy-on-guy sex. No one likes to discuss how much sex is actually going on and I think a frank admission of the fact that people like sex and indulge in it vigorously is healthy for our society. Seeing how common guy-on-. Hm Maybe I'm just of a different generation, but as a bi man, I felt like the author spent a lot of time furthering tired stereotypes about bi people. He was also very strangely conservative opposed to gay marriage, seemed to really despise women (or at least have old-fashioned thoughts on them). It's a brave memoir for the time, maybe, but I'm not sure if it's really great for broadening straight people's views on bisexuality.. Rogelio Arce B. said A PART OF EVERY ONE' S LIFE, AT LEAST FOR A SERIOUS ONE. THIS IS A BOOK THAT INTRODUCES ONESELF IN THE REALLITY OF DUAL FEELINGS,OF LOVING ONE AND THE OTHER, OF THE DUALITY THAT LIFE BEMCOMES FOR A PASSIONATE PERSON, AS WE HAVE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, SO ONE MAY UNDERSTAND BETTER WHAT LIFE IS FOR ME AND OTHERS, ON DESPITE OF THE GENDERA MUST READ FOR MUST PEOPLE.
If ``Smith'' can be believed, a third of American husbands are having sex with one another. Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. In copious detail he recounts his liaisons, gloating over encounters with All-American family men, such as a high school chum met again when he and his wife attended their class reunion, or the partner chanced upon in the country club pool. There are also discussions of homosexual activism and the author's Catholicism, and a chauvinistic look at sexual harrassment. ``Smith'' displays little worry over his upcoming cerebrovascular surgery to correct the results of his addiction to amyl nitrate, used to enhance sexual pleasure. As depicted, his wife is from central casting; his illicit life is the main interest here. Don't look here for intellectual stimulation. From Publishers Weekly These confessions of a 65-year-old ``bisexual corporate exe
Half Straight: My Secret Bisexual Life, by Smith, Tom