The Erotic World of Peter De Rome

202 Pages·1985·22.564 MB·English

by  Peter De Rome

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THE EROTIC WORLD OF PETER DE ROME

Peter de Rome
The
Erotic World
of
Peter de Rome
First published September 1984 by GMP Publishers Ltd,
P O Box 247, London N15 6RW.
©
World copyright Peter de Rome 1984.
Film photographs reproduced by courtesy of
Hand In Hand Films.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
De Rome, Peter
The erotic world of Peter de Rome.
1. De Rome, Peter 2. Moving-picture
producers and directors - United States
- Biography
I. Title
791.43'0233'0924 PN1998.A3D4
ISBN 0-097040-46-2
Cover art by Christopher Corr
Photoset by M C Typeset, 34 New Road, Chatham, Kent
Printed and bound by Richard Clay Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk
Contents
Introduction 7
Prologue 9
1. I Loves You, Porky 18
2. Change Partners 31
3. His Eyes Look Out at Me 58
4. Mama Yo Quiero 74
5. A Helluva Town 91
6. Alabammy Bound 115
7. A Week in Paris 138
8. Flying Down to Rio 166
Epilogue 182
To
the memory
- and the memories -
of Jack Deveau
Introduction
The encounters, adventures, escapades-call them what you
will - that are a feature of so many homosexual lives, are
surely unique in society.
Even the most womanizing of heterosexuals can hardly
have as varied a menu as his homosexual kin. No brothel, as
far as I know, boasts of a 'back room' as some gay bars do,
where sex is wholesale and anonymous.
Nor is it easy for a man simply to walk along the street and
pick up a woman who is not a prostitute but merely looking
for instant gratification, as is common among consenting
adult homosexuals.
The truth is that a large proportion of gay men have a
variety of sexual experiences that would boggle the minds of
the straight bourgeoisie, and class distinction barely exists. I
have known men-one now in his seventies-who have sex
two or three times a day with different men every day of
their lives. At the other end of the scale, of course, are those
gay couples who settle down to marital bliss and have never
cheated in twenty-five years. Well, hardly ever.
Somewhere in the middle is where I would place myself.
And, incidentally, where I would place a few million other
homosexuals whose lifestyles have not yet been accurately
documented.
Famous writers such as Christopher Isherwood, Merle
Miller, Tennessee Williams, Beverley Nichols, have all come
out of the closet and bared many fascinating facts about
their private lives, but either from modesty or from fear of
libel have not been as explicit as I for one might have
wished. And Truman Capote and Gore Vidal have very
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carefully and cleverly managed to reveal practically nothing
at all.
My own limited celebrity as a maker of homosexual
pornographic films does not prevent me from telling
everything, and more or less demands that I do. Only a few
names have been changed to maintain privacy. But in
choosing to be explicit, the difficulty arises in the choice of
words to describe genitalia. I have rejected everything, with
few exceptions, in favour of the word 'cock'. It seems to me
the most current, the most common, and the word that most
evokes maleness.
Peter de Rome
June 1984