From the Introduction
"Bearotica" is almost as hard to define as the term "bear," as now in use among gay men around the world. If, as conventional wisdom holds, "clothes make the man," do jeans, a plaid flannel shirt, a gimme cap, and workboots make the bear? Some mysterious combination of traditionally mature masculine physical attributes - facial hair, hirsuteness, girth, brawn, and even baldness or graying - somehow factor into the basic American bear sexual image. Layered over, or perhaps embedded beneath these superficial characteristics, is something unique and different from mainstream gay sexuality - but what?
Some would claim that softer, teddy-bear qualities of bear-men distinguish their sexual relationships. After all, the name of one of the first sexual venues for these men, and one of the more enduring images of the subculture, has been the Bear Hug. In contrast, others would claim that Bears' uncommonly masculine adult strength, their fully developed sexual power, is a defining characteristic. Maybe Bearsex can be both soft and hard, playful and commanding, cuddly and crushingly potent.
This collection of all previously unpublished "bearotic" fiction gathers a zoo-full of varying styles, settings, subjects, characters, and author backgrounds. Like the Bear subculture itself, there is something stimulating for everyone: literary and smutty, romantic and hardcore, rustic and citified, historical and postmodern. Collected here is a jungle orgy of grizzlies and musclebears, daddybears and cubs, chubs and otters, bikerbears and bearlovers, "straight" bears and gorillas and lions and wolves and bulls, oh my! The contributors come from all over the U.S. and from the U.K., Germany, Denmark, and Australia. One can't necessarily tell from their pen names or writing, but several outstanding stories by women are included.
These twenty-five stories are more than "genre fiction" - they tweak more than one's furry gonads - although there's plenty of hot hairy-heavy-homo sex in these pages. These well-crafted tales display depth of heart and understanding and humor - essential qualities that endear to us the sexy creatures we call bears. |
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