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Pleasure Reader / J. X. Williams / The Touch of Lust

Cover: Ed Smith

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"He searched the gay world for the perfect mate!"

". . . he'd sample every man in the world. . . ."

"He had to be built . . . and have an insatiable lust for the gay antics. . . ."

". . . he went about seducing every lovable stud in sight."

"If only he could find a man that attracted him mentally and emotionally. . . ."

"But where on the face of the earth was a man like this to be found?"

And there you have it. That's pretty much the entire story of Buffy and the Holy Quest by gay pulp writer Chris Davidson (a pseudonym for Christian Davies), published in San Diego in 1968 by Adult Books, another imprint of William Hamling’s Greenleaf Publishing Company.

The narrative follows the sexual awakening of young teenage Bradley, who calls himself Buffy, and his "holy quest" for the perfect male lover. Buffy whisks through a series of men, all with individual qualities, but none with the whole package. Despite Buffy's ostensible desire for emotional fulfillment, he has no trouble dropping his lovers without a second thought. Not a terribly endearing character. By the end of the novel, the quest continues with no resolution. The narrative is short on substance, but long on gay steam.

Chris Davidson was the author of several gay pulp novels, several of which we hold, but we could not find anything about him. We do know that the cover art is by Ed Smith, a prolific pulp and sci-fi cover artist, and one of the go-to artists at Greenleaf Publishing.

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