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Samuel M. Steward (a.k.a. Phil Andros)
(1909 - 1993)
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the Male Hustler by Phil
Andros,
Samuel M. Steward
Inches called this serious study of male
hustlers "a complete surprise and a joy to read." It's
not so surprising, though, when you consider that the author has
been both a college professor and a full-time tattoo artist! He
brings the academy and the underground together with this 20-year
empirical study that penetrates the mind and personality of the
male hustler. Based on interviews with hundreds of hustlers,
Steward's book creates an imagined series of dialogues that
explore the motivations, activities, lifestyles, advantages and
disadvantages of boys who take money for sex. -- Anonymous Review
 Flesh
and the Word : An Anthology of Erotic Writing by John
Preston (Editor)
"The late Preston, the gifted author of the
classic "Mr. Benson," began editing the "Flesh and
The Word" series with this classic compilation of
contemporary gay erotica. Each section begins with a thoughtful
summary of the stories therein. Fans of Anne Rice will find
especially valuable the two excised homoerotic chapters from
"Exit to Eden," but there are several classic stories as
well, including Aaron Travis's (AKA Steven Saylor) "Blue
Light," one of the most amazing short stories ever written in
any genre. Some of the best writers of gay erotica are
represented, including T. R. Witomski, John Wagenhauser, and
Samuel M. Steward. The book is as enlightening as it is arousing
for people of all genders, and a groundbreaker in terms of
promoting the acceptance of erotic writing as literature. A
must-have for collectors of erotica!" -- Deborah Alpi
Part One includes Samuel M. Steward,
"Correspondence with George Platt Lynes," and "The Sergeant
with the Rose Tattoo" (writing as Phil Andros)
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By Phil Andros
Excerpt:
It takes nerve to come into the lobby of the
respectable old St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco in boots,
leather jacket, and dirty chino pants. Moreover, this was several
years ago, just before the "leather movement" actually
commenced, and people were not as used to seeing such clothing as
they are today. But the registration clerk did not seem to be in
the least surprised.
"Who's the bum?" I asked Lefty, who
was sitting next to me on the bellhop's bench. He looked at me
from the superior peak of his two year's experience at the St.
Francis; I'd just been there two months.
"Fella, you're lucky," he said.
"You should be such a bum. That's Rex Rhodes - he's an
oddball, all right, but chee, what a swell tipper! Got money. They
don't care how he dresses here. I wisht I was next up. Wanna trade
places with me and lemme take the call?" He didn't sound very
hopeful...
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By Phil Andros
Excerpt:
The chances of an ordinary guy like me meeting a
bank president in the usual run of affairs are admittedly pretty
slim. There are too many variables, too many gear-teeth to mesh
into the right slots. Of course, the cards are stacked to some
extent by the fact that the life I'm in cuts across all the social
strata. Bank presidents are just as likely to be queer as
ribbon-clerks and - well, perhaps not quite as likely to be gay as
hairburners and female impersonators.
But sometimes you wonder if there's any kind of
pattern to what seems to be chance.
For instance. If my old man hadn't happened to
pass on a chromosome chain to me that made me six feet tall, with
black hair and a husky enough frame, I wouldn't have appealed to
Benjamin Thomas. And if I hadn't gone into the Hatrack bar - and I
nearly didn't - he wouldn't have seen me. And if there hadn't been
a mutual acquaintance - good old Mike - to give him my telephone
number, he would never have called. And if he had called two
minutes later than he did, I would have been gone out already...
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Excerpt:
Andros, Phil. (pseudonym of Samuel Steward) $tud
Washington, DC, Guild Press, 1966. Dust jacket art by Etienne
(pseudonym of Dorn Orejudos). First book by Andros. Contains 18
episodes from the life of a young hustler. Inscribed
by Andros as follows: "For Paul Grant who knows a lot of
secrets Phil Andros"
"Phil wears his hustler's uniform of tight
chinos and black leather boots and black leather jacket with a
difference. - - one of the reasons of the exalted enthusiasm in
European and Scandinavian countries for the works of Phil Andros
[a few of these episodes appeared earlier in various magazines]
where he is called the "American Jean Genet") is that
his writing [is] far removed from the old and well worn pattern-as
usually seen in the homosexual press [with] not a trace of the
sad-sick-sorry self-pity of the "gay" boy for his
plight. Instead Phil enjoys life with a robust and well-adjusted
reaction to it-a attitude [that] makes him almost unique..."
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