The Gentle Degenerates

Marco Vassi

Nexus

Pushing Ink: The Fine Art of Tattooing

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Spider Webb

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Fireside

Stoned Apocalypse

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A Driving Passion

<p>Marco Vassi died of AIDS on January 14, 1989, at the age of 51. By that time he had written a dozen books and countless articles, and earned a worldwide reputation as the most gifted erotic writer of our era, with his work in translation throughout Europe, as well as in America and England.<br>"We are all pilgrims," Marco often said. Born Ferdinand Vasquez, young "Freddie" admired the adventurer Marco Polo, and adopted his first name. He was, indeed, the quintessential pilgrim/adventurer, exploring the furthest realms of sexuality and using these explorations as the basis of his fiction and short essays. For Marco was born into a strict Roman Catholic Italian family in East Harlem, New York which at the time was an insular Italian-American neighborhood, rife with sexual taboos and limitations, where missionary-style intercourse was allowable only after marriage. It was a personal rebellion against these sexual restrictions that launched his sojourn into the world of eroticism, which, in turn, brought him his literary reputation, and, ultimately, caused his death.<br>In 1975, 14 years before he died, Marco gave a series of lectures in which he shared his personal experiences and sexual philosophy with an attentive audience. This is the substance of A Driving Passion. Ribald, witty, and frank - as was his style - most of the personal anecdotes he recalls occurred in the late 1950's, a time before the social and sexual revolution of the sixties. It affords a good glimpse into the early explorations of the man who Norman Mailer honored by saying he had "the highest opinion not only of his work but his intellectual boldness."</p>

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