Men Love Sex by Alan Close

A collection of adult short stories by male authors from Australia and New Zealand in which their feelings about love and sex are freely expressed. Often confronting, frank, amusing, and poignant these stories reveal what men really talk about when they talk about love. The issue of gender confusion – what is means to be a man, what it means to be a woman – and the conclusion that it is becoming a matter of individual choice is one that sits below the surface of many of the stories. The contributors provide a mixed array of ideas given that they represent young men, old men, family men, single men, straight men, gay men.

”Alan Close has been in love, and had sex. He lives in and around Sydney”

The quirky prelude to an anthology that adopts as it’s title; a forthright adage.
Close’s introductory remarks characterise the collection as a forum contributed to solely by men: a series of recollections and meditations on the modern sexual and romantic experience in a society that tacitly discourages men from open discussion of such topics. He promises an exploration of the shared but often silenced and a revelation of the unspoken – so I thought it about time I exercised some empathy and listened.

WARNING, MAY CONTAIN MATERIAL THAT COULD CAUSE OFFENSE TO SOME READERS. 18 t