Attractive Forces

by Robert Edison Sandiford, Justin Norman (Contributor)

You're at a party and your eyes meet, attraction is instant, so hot, the adrenaline spreading throughout your body, the need to explore that connection immediate... Three erotic stories intelligently but intensely exploring black and inter-racial relationships.

Genres: Erotica

56 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1998

About the author

Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of three short story collections, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, The Tree of Youth and Intimacy 101: Rooms & Suites; the graphic novels Attractive Forces, Stray Moonbeams and Great Moves; a travel memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle; the novel And Sometimes They Fly; and edited with Linda M. Deane Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology and Green Readings: Barbados, The First Five Years (2008-2012). He is a founding editor of ArtsEtc: The Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados (artsetcbarbados.com), and has worked as a journalist, book publisher, video producer with Warm Water Productions, and teacher. He has won awards for both his writing and editing, including Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts and the Harold Hoyte Award, and been shortlisted for the Frank Collymore Literary Award. He still divides his time between Canada and Barbados.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 2 out of 5]

Excellent for insight on a black man's inner feelings, fantasies and communicative dynamics in sexual fantasies with black women. But other than that, which is what I bought it for, the three story-lines and art didn't bring it above average.

He had a mother of STUNNING RARITY who was unaware of a son's (or daughter's) best interests!

"My mother always told me never to refuse a beautiful woman anything."

This does not come from ANY woman's lips, in earnest, unless they are ACTUALLY referring to themselves or a specific female friend:

[Rick Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's always great to have representation, even for the more taboo subgenres of comics like smut. Attractive Forces sheds light on black and interracial relationships for a broader audience. Sandiford clearly sought to elevate the artform with some pretty in-depth exploration on relationship whilst also using flowery and poetic prose. It really didn't need that though, since the stories here are rather dull. The artwork is gorgeous throughout, though the stories didn't really provide much with respect to flexing the artistic talent here.