A Freethinker's Primer of Male Love.
By John Lauritsen. 96 pages. $6.95.  Trade Paperback. ISBN 0-943742-11-0  Pagan Press 1998.

The main essay in this book, “A Freethinker's Primer of Male Love”, is a celebration and defence of male love from a secular humanist perspective. Its leading thesis: Male love is good; the opprobrium suffered by gay men is a product of Judeo-Christian superstition.

A companion essay, “Paradigms For Gay Liberation”, recounts the ideas that have informed the movement. The author analyzes how the present-day movement has lost its bearings, and he indicates a way out of the thicket.

There are eight Excursus: Male Beauty, The Golden Legend, Gay Christian Revisionism, Pluralistic Ignorance, Freethought, Circumcision of the Spirit, The Aster Epigrams of Plato, and A Pagan Prayer. An annotated Bibliography provides guidance for further reading.

For Jack Nichols' review in Gay Today click here.

For William A. Percy's review in Journal of Homosexuality click here.

For Richard Dey's review, “The Naked Classical Model”, click here.

For Ian Young's review in Torso click here.