Middle Men

by Shane Allison (Editor), Jamie Freeman (Contributor)

In a world where there are nearly no taboos, one of the few fantasies left unrealized for most s that of group sex. Shane Allison Middle Men will be inspiring many readers to make sure they have at at least two friends with benefits in this erotica anthology simple bursting there threesomes, foursomes, adn moresomes. Gaybie Award-winning Allison is a master of putting together a group of stories that will get your hot, grab your sense and inspire a lifetime of erotica adventures. Gay group sex stories that will grab your senses and fire the imagination. Middle Men is bound to rise to the top in homoerotica!

Genres: Gay Erotica

232 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2012

Reviews

[B.G. Thomas]

I am a little nervous about this one. While the subject sounds interesting, there are so many misspellings and grammatical errors just in the description I can't help but worry about the book itself. A blurb is putting the publisher's best foot forward. If this is their best foot...what is the book like?

[Cavak · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you want erotica that doesn't go deeper than the act alone, this is your type of collection. Most of the time, despite the many different writers involved, the stories felt too similar. Often it's three guys getting together due to some form of business transaction with little to no build up to the sex, sex, sex. It's telling when even the details for the sexual positions (of which there are maybe three throughout the majority of stories) felt tiresome.

So I enjoyed the ones that broke the mold a little. Like one where it's reuniting with an old flame from prison or a funky threesome with an ex. At least there's that.

I can see where Middle Men would appeal to curious readers who want heat and spice, but I'd usually like more than that in my reads.

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a truly sensational book. Hot, Sizzlin, passion filled threesomes between men. This book is available on audible.com
This author has many of his books on book share

['Nathan Burgoine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I reviewed this for Erotica Revealed.

The best thing about an anthology for me is in enjoying the wide range of places a group of writers can go within a single theme. You can take something mundane and almost cliché – daddies, twinks, frat boys, jocks – but if you’ve got one of those great anthologies in your hand, you still end up with a surprisingly fresh collection of stories.

Variety – I imagined – was going to be pretty high when the theme opened up the collection from the typical boy-meets-boy duality. I went into Middle Men: Gay Erotic Threesomes looking forward to seeing what the authors had done, and the length and breadth of stories that Shane Allison had combined for this collection, and though I did like it some – mostly on the strength of specific stories – I wasn’t blown away.

I did like Middle Men, but it took me a while to read the whole collection. If that sounds like faint praise, I suppose it is. The problem I kept having was that the stories – for the most part – were about quick trysts. It felt like most of the stories had a similar set up - three ways happening spontaneously between guys meeting for the first time. I was a little surprised that there was only one story where the three men involved were actually involved in the sense of having a long-term trio relationship. I may be misremembering, but I think of the rest of the tales, only two (or three?) also had couples that were having a third (or in one case, fourth, and fifth and maybe sixth and seventh) join them for a dalliance.

It’s not that the erotica doesn’t burn and sweat in all the right ways. Most of the stories have scorch. It’s more that I felt a lack of set-up in many cases; most of the tales are very quick, and as I’ve mentioned before, I like my erotica to have a narrative lead-in, rather than be “scene” erotica.

There are exceptions to this in the anthology. I liked the clever set up and play of “Middle Man for Madam Blavatsky” (one of the stories where a couple are enjoying a playmate). Here a deck of tarot cards open up the door for a young fellow to realize that it’s going to take time to convince his partner that they could bring another fellow to their bed. “Grip” by Sleepy Lopez was another story with a couple – this one with a gritty urban take, and the gap between childhood friends who have grown apart while one has been in prison, and their reconnection thereafter. The third couple story that stuck in my memory was “The One in the Middle” which was still somewhat a “scene” piece (we join the couple already having sex with at least two other men) but actually had a trace of kindness and sweetness between the couple involved: I was left with the sense that this couple’s relationship was built on a very solid love – and a love of being the guy in the middle. It probably was the single story that seemed to have nailed the theme of what I thought I’d find in Middle Men the most.

On the clever side was “Fox Goldman and the Three Bears.” This was the story where there is a three person relationship, and the play of a modernized Goldilocks and the Three Bears was as sly as the sex was hot – the “Goldilocks” gets to enjoy one of the home movies the bears have made while he lounges in their conveniently empty home.

I also liked “Dogging It” by H.L. Champa, who gave me a character whose desire for exhibitionism simmers with a realistic steam, leading to a public display in a park for all to watch.

Those five stories (out of the eighteen in the collection) stuck with me. If what you’re looking for out of Middle Men is some hot scenes where three guys get it on, then I think you’ve got an adequate choice here. I wanted to like this more, but I was left with a kind of foggy memory when it came time to look over the table of contents at the end of the book to write this review. Many of the stories blend a bit too much. Boy meets boy meets boy, followed by sex. Sometimes it’s rough, sometimes it’s escorts, sometimes it’s cops, sometimes it’s strippers, but there was a repetition in the stories that wore a little thin. I had to put it down quite a bit, and pick it back up again later. Again – that might be what you’re looking for, if you’re a fan of quick and dirty shorts with three men colliding by happenstance and riding their good luck out to the finish.

I just wanted a bit more variety.

[Michelle Hoogterp · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was assigned to review this through a website and I accepted...it was interesting to read gay erotica. In general, it wasn't arousing since I was the wrong target, but some of the stories were interesting and what was really interesting was reading something not intended for me. I learned a whole bunch of new ways to describe male genitalia and I learned that gay erotica isn't all that different from any other kind--just the characters change.

[Wt Prater · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought it was pretty decent!