Abstract incorporates materials from the book jacket.
In Hotter than Hell, acclaimed erotic writer and sex columnist Simon Sheppard serves up a collection of stories that features street hustlers, sweet Kansas boys, closeted college kids, San Francisco leathermen, and everyone in between. The characters are swept way by need, frustration, and love in intense, sometimes nasty couplings in settings ranging from San Francisco to Morocco and India. In his introduction, Sheppard compares the writing of porn today with the writing of mysteries at the beginning of the 20th century when the genre was still being formed. Part of the excitement of writing porn for Sheppard is the opportunity to explore and discover the parameters of a genre still in formation. Refusing to become bored writing only about "dick, dick, dick," Sheppard asks his readers to "please, bear with [him] if [he] tr[ies] to tell actual stories amidst the flood of spooge."
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