The Sperm Engine

by Stephen Greco

Stephen Greco chronicles people’s self-revelations through sex — whether traditionally in romantic expressions of love, or more unconventionally in “sex sports” of modern gay life. A collection whose literary qualities do not obscure its strong erotic impulse, it includes accounts of a TV producer who has sex for the last time with a hospital orderly, a theater director who crafts a crowd-pleasing ritual, and a wild closing-night party of a historic New York leather bar. Within this collection of short stories, memoirs, and diary entries documenting gay sexual adventures are ten new pieces and work previously published in best-of gay erotica collections.

Genres: LGBT, Gay Erotica

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 2002

About the author

Stephen Greco is Editorial Director of InsideRisk and Editor-at-Large of the magazine Upstate Diary. He has contributed to and/or served as editor for Air Mail, Elle Décor, Interview, MTV online, New York, the New York Times, Opera News, Stagebill, Trace, and the Village Voice, among others. Greco is author of the novel Now and Yesterday (Kensington, 2014). His most recent novel, Such Good Friends, based on the friendship of Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill, published by Kensington in May, 2023.

For the stage, Greco has written Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood, an orchestral-theatrical work from Giants Are Small, the partnership of Edouard Getaz and Doug Fitch, that premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2017. With Fitch, Greco has written the multi-media works How Did We…? (2014; University of Buffalo Center for the Arts) and Punkitititi/Breakfast Included (2020; Salzburg Marionette Theater, Salzburg Mozarteum). Greco wrote the libretto for the Victoria Bond opera How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct, and is working on musical theater projects with composers Scott Wheeler and Douglas Cuomo.

Among the celebrity interviews that Greco has done for various publications are Maya Angelou, Geoffrey Beene, Joan Juliet Buck, Trisha Brown, DJ Cam, Wes Craven, Quentin Crisp. Merce Cunningham, Diane von Furstenberg, Frank Gehry, Allen Ginsberg, Marcelo Gomes, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Cynthia Gregory, Arianna Huffington, Patti LuPone, Gelsey Kirkland, Spike Lee, Marilyn Minter, Errol Morris, Jane Moss, Nana Mouskouri, Mark Morris, Mike Nichols, Yoko Ono, Sir Peter Pears, Ned Rorem, Andre Leon Talley, Donald Trump, and Kehinde Wiley.

Greco lives in Brooklyn, New York.


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AUTHOR PHOTO BY DAVID A. PEREZ

Reviews

[♥Xeni♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was recommended this book by a friend, a long time ago. It was when I was first setting out into the m-m genre, and before I bought this book I read a few reviews on Amazon, so I definitely knew what I was getting into... or so I thought!

There were many shocking bits and moments, but the clarity and frankness with which Greco wrote made it actually a lot easier to swallow and enjoy.

These days I look back with fondness on the book. Every so often a scene will resurface in my mind, and I'll get an urge to read this book (too bad I lost my copy!). I'm just amazed that so many of the stories within this book remain with me today.

It is a well written book, and not for soft-core lovers. Read this book at your own peril, because it is one of those "disclose all" reads!

[Les Lauriault · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not for the faint if heart, but hil - fucking - larious!!!!!

[Dafydd Gwaredd · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of short stories is well-written, imaginative, unapologetically and promiscuously gay🦩🦩🦩 Irony and wit mixes with bodies and body fluid in a broad spectrum of engaging, diverse and sexy scenarios and characters. A fun, guilty pleasure and romp in the sheets, proving not all literature has to be academic and ethereal! 😈