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a novel. Its scenes and dramatic arc are cinematic. Its “voice”
is its dialogue.
The essence of Leather Blues is not merely the magical
thinking of masturbatory desire so much as it is also a dra-
matized documentary of the way we were.
Leather Blues exists like a note in a bottle from the golden
age of wild leather liberation before Stonewall and HIV
turned mid-century gay sex into ancient history.
To project diverse perspectives within the cinematic
narrative, I wrote the story in the “omniscient third per-
son voice,” not the typical “autobiographical first person”
favored by most writers of erotica. My goal was to give read-
ers “insider access” to dialogue-driven characters, plot, and
sexuality they could identify with erotically.
In all my writing, I try to create erotic literature that
begins in the head and works its way down. That reviewers
have found the rhythms of poetry in my sentences, and male
romance in my plot, and existentialism in my themes is satis-
fying because erotic literature is not written in an intellectual
or emotional vacuum.
Respecting sexuality, I always intend my words and
rhythms to turn readers onto their own sexual pleasure. My
humanist goal is to cause human orgasm: the ability to worship
something recognized as core necessity in one’s human self.
There is no greater connection between author and
reader than the reader’s handheld salute to the action on the
page. That’s the best review in the world.
Leather Blues is perhaps the leanest, meanest, and purist
book I have written.
May my pleasure be your pleasure.

Jack Fritscher
San Francisco, 2011

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