Otts reviewed The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by …
Same ol’ Cooper … but on the internet
1 star
I mean, this cover, that title: how could I not? I read Cooper’s “Closer” and Frisk” in the 90s, and it felt transgressive, dangerous: everything the world told me gayness was. This was also a heady time of increasing representation, navigating sex, morality, pleasure while narrowly missing AIDS’ clutches.
But Cooper’s only got one set of tricks, as it were. The same repugnant characters preying on each other … psych! 🥱