I know more than I ever thought I'd need to about ball gags, weighted nipple clamps, butt plugs, leather masks, cock rings, fisting, barebacking, dildos and poppers! I really appreciated Thomas Clerc's introductions to each of Dustan's radical novellas which document the seductive, pleasure-seeking, dangerous hedonism of gay Paris in the mid-1990s. Writing against the pessimism and ostracism of HIV and AIDS, In My Room, I'm going out tonight and Stronger Than Me are provocative books, celebrations of the obscene, visceral experiences lionizing gay male promiscuity and the search for carnal oblivion through non-stop cruising for sex. There's an unsettling restlessness in each of the short novels and an all-pervading sadness. From what I understand, Dustan was a tour-de-force in queer literature, a contemporary of Herve Guibert and influential, stylistically to writers like Constance Debre. Compelling.