Carnal Connections by Berengaria Brown

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Title: Carnal Connections
Author: Berengaria Brown 

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Publisher: Breathless Press

Genre: Erotic/M/M/M

Length: 18 pgs.
Reviewed by: Russ Allen

RATINGS FOR:

Cover: 4

Presentation: 3

Editing: 4

Story: 2

Writing Ability: 3

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About The Book:  Three gay guys meet at a gay wedding and spend the night in a hotel having acrobatic sex that leads them to consider a future relationship built on their orgies.

The Review: The above summary reveals the problem with this story: That is all there is.  The significance of its context: a same-sex wedding; is overlooked; the connection between the three men and the happy couple is barely mentioned; there is no real character development of the three main participants.  All we now is that they are gay, come on to each other, and retire to a hotel room for their orgy. 

As with many efforts to describe acrobatic sex, this writer is not able to do so in more than a mechanical way, similar to the way many adult movies get bogged down in 15-minute blowjobs or prolonged and unrealistic non-orgasmic intercourse.  In each case, after a while the reader/viewer is bored and turned off.  A story that wishes to be erotic needs to engage the reader’s imagination in what the participants are doing, otherwise the result is pornography that in times becomes tedious and pointless.  Whatever the intention of this author, gay porn is the result.

The author writes well [not great], and has an ability to imagine what a gay three-some orgy might be like.  Unfortunately, the absence of fuller development of the story before, during, and after the events in the hotel room leaves the reader only with that scene, and its mechanical description of sexual acrobatics fails in the end to engage the reader as the author might have wished.

Pagan Elements: N/A  

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