Sex & Literature

Sunday, February 22, 2015

A Ukrainian Melody, Sort Of...

"A Ukrainian Melody, Sort Of..." covers the once thriving, growing Ukrainian community on New York's Lower East Side in the early 1960s, which now doesn’t exist any more. Focuses on the accordionist Igor Skrypka who has his eyes set on a "young" schoolgirl, Zulka, who really is somewhat older than her other classmates, which Skrypka doesn't know. It's the weekend and the community is gathering at the Ukrainian National Home for that night's wedding festivities. A look at the events and people of the community, plus our narrator, Danylo, son of Skrypka, and his growing gayness, still unheard in the community.

via Amazon

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Stallers & Times Square Queer

I began this book in the late 1980s, remembering the darkness and light of Times Square. Boy, did my memory come alive! Susie Bright says Mykola Dementiuk's Times Square stories capture perfectly "the day when Times Square was all about sex, drugs, and cold spit ... the just-burgeoning hardcore movie houses and girlie shows of Times Square in the 1960s. It's... vivid. Harsh, real, and yes, erotic, in a stomach-churning way. Genuine whoreporn from a time when things were not talked about, at all, in the twilight zone."

"Mykola's stories of ... the delights and depressions of young men living difficult lives in imperfect times... do a magnificent job of drawing us into the character's heads." --Bibrary Bookslut.

Mykola's New York is "...very gritty, with a cosmopolitan impersonality about it; impersonal relationships, impersonal sex, and the-devil-take-the-hindmost ethos. [His work is] eagerly recommended." --Gerry B's Book Reviews.

Sizzler paperback edition and Stallers e-book edition

This Woman Is Suing Because Her Tights Didn't Make Her Orgasm

Tights are every woman's saving grace during the winter. But one wearer expected a whole lot more than warmth from her pair, the New York Postreports.

New York City shopper Meng Wang has filed a federal class-action lawsuit claiming she thought her pair of Kushyfoot tights would give her an orgasm, and she was sorely disappointed. She says she bought a $7.64 pair at a drugstore after watching an online ad featuring a woman moaning with pleasure.

In the ad, people walk by and gawk at her, and then ask what her secret is. She then hands out pairs of Kushyfoot tights and socks, while a woman sings about being "super satisfied." It's clearly meant to insinuate sex, but in the Herbal Essences shampoo way, not in a literal, this-will-make-you-scream-on-the-street way.