{"id":929,"date":"1992-07-07T20:54:54","date_gmt":"1992-07-08T01:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=929"},"modified":"2012-07-07T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:03:44","slug":"a-natural-beauty-erotic-tales-of-tender-young-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/a-natural-beauty-erotic-tales-of-tender-young-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Natural Beauty: Erotic Tales of Tender Young Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0<a title=\"Read this issue online. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/glbtrt\/sites\/ala.org.glbtrt\/files\/content\/newsletter\/newsletters\/1992spring.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1992<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/natural.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-930\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"natural\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/natural.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of A Natural Beauty\" width=\"177\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/28422654\">A Natural Beauty: Erotic Tales of Tender Young Lovers. Edited by John Patrick.STARBOOKS, 1991. Paper. $11.95. (ISBN 1-877978-18-3)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eighteen short stories in this anthology\u00a0portray varied situations in which boys, teenagers and\u00a0young men experience homoerotic awakenings, love, sex,\u00a0and violence. Although the overall quality of the prose is\u00a0acceptable, one-dimensional characters and predictable\u00a0plots trivialize the contents. Relevant themes such a manboy love, coming out, self-acceptance and dealing with\u00a0peers, family and society are not realistically explored.\u00a0Unprotected anal and oral sex are often graphically\u00a0described, but safe sex and health issues are ignored.\u00a0Amateur photos of teenage boys scattered throughout the\u00a0book further detract from the work&#8217;s appeal to serious readers. Not recommended for any public, academic or special library collections.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>Joseph Eagan<\/strong><br \/>\nEnoch Pratt Free Library<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GLBTRT has been reviewing books and movies in its newsletter since the early 1990s. Trace the evolution of queer publishing through these historic reviews. This review was originally\u00a0published in\u00a0Vol. 4, No. 2, Summer 1992. A Natural Beauty: Erotic Tales of Tender Young Lovers. Edited by John Patrick.STARBOOKS, 1991. Paper. $11.95. (ISBN 1-877978-18-3) The eighteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,36,18,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}