My 71-Year-Old Mother Wrote a Kink-Positive Adult Children’s Book For Gay Men

I wish I were kidding.

Joe Bee
The Haven
Published in
6 min readApr 22, 2024

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The actual cover. No, this is not a joke.

My Mother is an artist.

Growing up, I got used to being around projects: papier mache, sculpture, beadwork, the occasional snake in a pot of boiling water to strip it of its skin and harvest its bones for a necklace—the usual.

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