reviews_and_ramblings | Pure Sex by D.J. Manly

In Pure Sex, like often in D.J. Manly’s books, sex is approached almost like a recreational activity. I’m not saying it in a derogative way, the men in this book, and in all the previous I read by this author, enjoy sex, a lot, and they are quite open (no pun intended) about it. But probably the main difference from a lot of other similar books is that those men are also able to fall in love, and when it happens, they are like new-born child, sex becomes something completely different, like it was the first time they try it.

Lance is a high maintenance escort. There is no other way to describe him; he hires himself out to wealthy businessman to provide companionship and sex in exchange of the chance of living a live well above the average. But even if he has sex for money, Lance is almost naïve, he is not greedy and he really cares for the men he is with; in his two previous “contracts” Lance was lucky, both man cared back for him, and he was treated like a precious thing. To this kindness Lance gave back all of him other than one thing, his heart. Lance doesn’t believe in love, as an orphan he had nothing, and now he thinks that material things are the only important things in life, since they give him security and comfort, love is not something he needs. As I said, Lance is naïve, he didn’t realize that, even if he didn’t love those men, the men loved him and treated him well. And Lance is innocent, since he is plain and clear in his “contracts”, he is not selling love or illusions, he is selling only his body and time.

When it’s time for Lance to find a new patron, he sets his eyes on Jackson, a 40 something businessman. Jackson has no problem to accept the contract Lance is proposing, the problem is that Jackson has many of them on, his house is full a pretty boys he uses like playthings. One of them in particular, Tobias, is tired of that life, but he has money obligations he can’t afford without Jackson’s salary. Tobias should be happy to see Lance’s arrival, the pressure on him should diminish, but it’s not like that. After the first initial dislike, Tobias starts to understand that Lance has not understood the “prison” he is ended in, and this is the time that, if he doesn’t do something, Lance will loose forever that innocence he has preserved all those years.

It’s strange to talk of innocence and naïveté in a book where men are having sex in 2, 3 even 4, and everyone is doing everyone else, but that is sex, pure sex, and love is not involved. Both Lance and Tobias are innocent when it’s time to speak of love, and between a sex scene and another, this is a love story. Only that you have to search the love in the most unexpected places.

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