Get pumped!

"For some gay men, it's all about muscle: sleek muscle, bulging muscle, muscle to stroke lightly, muscle to squeeze hard." —Richard Labonté, from the introduction

Muscle Men is a celebration of the body beautiful, where men who look like Greek gods are worshipped for their outsized attributes. Editor Richard Labonté takes us into the erotic world of body builders and the men who desire them. In these uninhibited explicit stories, men get hot in the gym, in the locker room, and especially in the steam room. In Joe Marohl's "The Lair of Carlo de la Paz," a secret fight club becomes a stage for sex. Jonathan Asche's closeted working-class hunk has the night of his life in "Brute." In the off-campus kinky hijinks of Rob Wofsham's "Nephilim Lover," mind and body meld in explosively great sex. These rippling hunks looks hard, work hard, and play hard.

With stories by Joe Marohl, Steven Bereznai, Jack Fritscher, Cage Thunder, Jamie Freeman, Dale Lazarov, Bastian Jonsson, Yann Duminil, Jonathan Asche, Geoffrey Knight, Thomas Fuchs, Natty Soltesz, Rob Wolfsham, Michael Bracken, Jeff Jacklin, and Larry Duplechan.

RICHARD LABONTÉ lives on small, friendly Bowen Island, off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. One of the founders of A Different Light Bookstore, he has edited the Best Gay Erotica series since 1996. He reviews 100 books a year for Q Syndicate, which distributes "Book Marks," his fortnightly column; writes the "Books to Watch Out For/Gay Men's Edition" newsletter; and writes book reviews for Publishers Weekly. Husband Asa and canines Percy and Zak are his constant companions.

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