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Summary: Fact that's hotter than fiction
Review: Anyone whose tastes are enticed by graphic descriptions of same-sex encounters will find this collection of accounts of what apparently goes in in some barracks when Big Brother isn't poking under the bedsheets a tremendous turn-on. Not only are the accounts, particularly those of man-to-man sex, so steamy that they sizzle, but the turn-on is all the more real because this isn't fiction. For whatever reason, however, this collection is distinguished from many other compilations of its kind in that this one includes not only the preference for man-to-man sexual contact but the sublimal message that everyone has the basic need to have some physical touch from someone, even if that someone is the same gender. Probably because these are true accounts, their authors disclose their need for human touch and, in doing so, evelate their experiences above the level of carnalism. At the same time, these stories provide a form of foreplay that is as much a turn-on as the actual sex. Read some of these stories and come to your own conclusion if Big Brother has any business delving into its military's human and sexual needs. Beyond that, the stories are simply so hot as to be searing!
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Summary: Attratced by the title, disappointed by the content
Review: As a reader of gay fiction and as a gay man who enjoys fanatasy about men in uniform I was attratced to the title of this collection edited by Buchman. Athough the content is well written and may delight some readers it left me wanting something more.
I would have perhaps enjoyed something a bit more sexually graphic.
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Summary: Not impressive
Review: As someone who spent a number of years in a military establishment, I bought this book hoping it would explain a few things about gays in the military and whether men who are secluded from other men, unconsciously become attracted to one another. Alas! Little did I know that I was buying a book which was bound to do everything but provide answers to my curiosity. Some of the people in this book need to visit a psychiatrist to have their mental states checked. I really mean it! For a man to pick up another man who is a total stranger (save that they are both Marines) and engage in wild sex on top of his car in the middle of the night is too much to be called 'acceptable or normal' behaviour. And for a married man, with a wife and a child to engage in same-sex relations in his own house when his wife is at home, is blatantly stupid. The author nevertheless might has done a nice job in collecting these stories but from my point of view, a book like this adds nothing to one's knowledge except providing vague and meaningless fantasy!
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Summary: Real Fantasy
Review: I bought this book for two reasons: 1 - for research on gender issues; and 2 - to read about personal experiences. Nothing brings memories so to life than seeing its subject objectively displayed. Having said that, I am sure there must be many other reasons why people would be interested in seeing the strict taboo barriers of masculinity and femininity broken down to a level where they can be approached with personal human sensitivity - that we are beings without boundaries. Nothing attracts like a man in uniform, sheer 'canned energy'. Maybe we tend to forget that in such encounters we actually bring our own fantasies alive, live them out in the company of those who are willing and able to compliment theirs with ours. In the process we find ourselves trying to balance our own perceptions and expectations. The unity of like-minded spirits is not always a successful or lasting union of bodies, as this book also shows. The path the nature of things provides often veers off the maps we try to follow. On the whole this book benefits from meaningful personal insights. It deals with, and is about, feelings and sympathies, fulfilled or not. Ultimately anything we do or don't is about our feelings - the distillation of varaint paths into one. We recognise that instance as the spirit of the moment. Why else would people want to bring them into print, or read about them? These stories bring to light that the social definitions we superficially adhere to are less rigid than expected. And in many cases we are willing to bring them down to to be examined up close. If anything, this book supports the reality that strict gender separation into male and female is a myth. That anything so prized as the epitome of 'unsillied' masculinity, the soldier, could be brought (literally) to his knees, is proof enough that even the most rigid of ideas can easily be blown away. Among all that, the ultimate fantasy fulfilment is still 'love'.
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Summary: Attratced by the title, disappointed by the content
Review: I wish I remembered nights in the barracks like these 16 true-life military stories relate. Alex Buchman presents us with authentic accounts of sex in the Armed Forces. These are stories the military doesn't want told. There are no gay men in the military and there's no gay sex, they want us to believe. They want us to think that young military men have no sexual desires. Well, this book is a welcome relief. Young military men do have sexual desires, and emotions, whether they straight or gay. All of these gay sexual encounters by military men are hotter than any fiction put out because they are real-life accounts. This isn't just an erotic, sexually explicit collection of stories, it's a thought-provoking history of real life while in the military. I enjoyed all of the 16 stories included in this collection. I think Alex provided us with a great group of contributors for this book. There's a brief biography of all the contributors in the back of the book, which is very helpful in knowing a little about each author. There's a enlightening introduction by none other than Steve Zeeland, the author of several military sexual interview books that include "Barrack Buddies", "Sailors and Sexual Identity", and "The Masculine Marine." These stories will leave you eager for more. I know I look forward to future editions by Buchman. Another great volume of gay military stories & studies put out by Harrington Park Press. Be sure and check this book out, highly recommended!
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Summary: "I Wish I Remembered Nights........................
Review: I wish I remembered nights in the barracks like these 16 true-life military stories relate. Alex Buchman presents us with authentic accounts of sex in the Armed Forces. These are stories the military doesn't want told. There are no gay men in the military and there's no gay sex, they want us to believe. They want us to think that young military men have no sexual desires. Well, this book is a welcome relief. Young military men do have sexual desires, and emotions, whether they straight or gay. All of these gay sexual encounters by military men are hotter than any fiction put out because they are real-life accounts. This isn't just an erotic, sexually explicit collection of stories, it's a thought-provoking history of real life while in the military. I enjoyed all of the 16 stories included in this collection. I think Alex provided us with a great group of contributors for this book. There's a brief biography of all the contributors in the back of the book, which is very helpful in knowing a little about each author. There's a enlightening introduction by none other than Steve Zeeland, the author of several military sexual interview books that include "Barrack Buddies", "Sailors and Sexual Identity", and "The Masculine Marine." These stories will leave you eager for more. I know I look forward to future editions by Buchman. Another great volume of gay military stories & studies put out by Harrington Park Press. Be sure and check this book out, highly recommended!
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Summary: As one of the writers,I'm proud to be a part of this book...
Review: I'm one of the two women who contributed to this book (the now-ex "Marine Wife"), and I'm proud to have been a part of it. I love the rawness and richness of the stories of my fellow contributors. I'm also glad to have the chance to show the world that many, many women also hunger for a hard male body in uniform...especially a Marine body. I still think that Marines are the most beautiful creatures on earth...as well as the most passionate and responsive. Believe me, I would so love to really crawl panther-like through a formation of prone Marines!
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Summary: As one of the writers,I'm proud to be a part of this book...
Review: I'm one of the two women who contributed to this book (the now-ex "Marine Wife"), and I'm proud to have been a part of it. I love the rawness and richness of the stories of my fellow contributors. I'm also glad to have the chance to show the world that many, many women also hunger for a hard male body in uniform...especially a Marine body. I still think that Marines are the most beautiful creatures on earth...as well as the most passionate and responsive. Believe me, I would so love to really crawl panther-like through a formation of prone Marines!
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Summary: Hotter than fantasy because it's real.
Review: This book may not be for those who prefer paint-by-number porn fantasies about seamen and admirals frigging in the rigging under fire during a typhoon with more dirty talk adjectives on one page than Jeff Stryker has uttered in his entire career. (There are hundreds of books in that genre, the Boyd McDonald series still being the best of them.) What this book does offer are honest stories of real-life military guys having sex in the barracks, in a Navy chapel, on a Camp Pendleton tank trail -- and in some other even more dangerous places. In "Semen in a Bullet" a gay Army Ranger has sex in a straight soldier's mobile home -- with his buddy's wife visible through the cracked bedroom door. I like how the sex stories are told in the way military men actually talk. The book does tease quite a bit, but to me that makes the explicit details all that much more...effective. Oh yeah -- and the pictures are pretty hot, too.
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Summary: Real, Honest, HOT !!!
Review: This is much better than reading fiction! It comes from the hearts and souls of the people who have actually experienced what they talk about! This book kept me hot and bothered for a long time and urged me to get more books on the topic of gay sex in the army.
I have a number of experiences with "straight" men although I am only 23 - I think all of this is SO REAL.
Not all stories have the perfect ending as in a fiction book but you know what? THIS IS REAL LIFE! FIVE STARS!! OUTSTANDING BOOK!
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