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I don't mind admitting I love Jay Bell, but he's pretty romantic. If you don't mind edgy but still romantic (and incredibly hot), you might try Santino Hassell's Sutphin Blvd. and Sunset Park.

This is too funny. I have only owned up to this guilty pleasure to a few of my closest friends. You are right that they are completely light reading, but after a day of thinking, it's nice just to relax. I signed up for Kindle Unlimited because I was going through so many of them.
 
Yes, they are fluff pieces but I highly recommend the "Something Like Summer" series by Jay Bell. It's a good but fairly typical story of Ben and Tim's young love and difficulty coming out. It's told from Ben's first person perspective and Tim does not come off particularly well. He ends up breaking Ben's heart.
 
However, this is where it got interesting for me, the next book in the series "Something Like Winter" is the same story told from Tim's perspective. It's different enough that it doesn't get boring, but I thought it was really interesting to see where Tim went and what he struggled with.
 
I understand your shame. It's like stuffing your brain with cotton candy, but I always have had a thing for sweets.

The closest I can get is reading a few of those gushy, Gordon Merrick novels long ago. Inconsequential, but mildly fulfilling.

So, this is really hard but I am going to do it. I HAVE KIND OF GOTTIN INTO GAY NOVELS. There I said it. WOW that feels good. Please don’t hate me for this. The last few years I needed a distraction and low and behold Gay Novels came along. Some thing where I really didn't need to engage the mind much. Most are pretty poor, short, and to the point so to speak and I think I have gotten over them….for the most part
There are some that I have kind of liked in a deeper way. No they certainly are not prize winning novels but they weren’t too bad.
Here are a few that I would put in that category.
 
Most recently re-read The Captive Prince 1 and 2 (third is on the way) by CS Pacat. Adventure type book ( I like advendure/Sci Fi stuff). Written pretty well. Good story line. Good characters.
http://www.amazon.com/Captive-Prince-Book-One-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B00I3REIHI/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1453067747&sr=8-1
 
Then there are the “classic” King Series by Edward Manning, probably the best of this type of book
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007E558OW/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_1
 
And a third would be Thread of Deepest Black by Finn Marlow.
http://www.amazon.com/Thread-Deepest-Black-Finn-Marlowe-ebook/dp/B004G5Z6I6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1453068057&sr=1-1&keywords=ThreaD+OF+A+DEEPEST+BLACK
There are a lot of Gay shape-shifter books which I am not into but this one was unique. If BDSM was like it is between the two main characters in this novel, you could probably get me interested.
 
So anyone else going to come out of the closet?
Anyone else have a book they “would recommend” J

Hood Me Gag Me Chain me to the Bed! then Get out the Sounds the Vibrator and the Electro and Lets PLAY!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys…well I know this topic seems kind of done...but just thought I would add another comment since there was a lot of talk on the sterility thing. Having dealt with the sterility issue most of my professional life and had to work in a deployed environment several times…I tend to agree with Rudynate…sterility is pretty much a relative term (well not really the term..but the concept is lol). Every time a doc cuts the skin (like in surgery) it is not sterile you just try and get it as close as you can. In this case I wouldn’t obsess too much over getting things absolutely sterile. Urine is pretty good at getting rid of bugs so long as the foreign object is gone. I think a “get things as clean as you can” approach is ok. I have done it a couple of times (yea it was ok…kind of novel like “holy crap I got a rod sticking out of my dick”) Keeping them clean, running them though the dishwasher (with hot dry cycle), using gloves, sterile water-based lube (they make an antibacterial one), keep a “clean field” with a clean towel, wiping them down with alcohol before use..and pee a lot afterwards Keeping them clean is probably the most important (dishwasher after each use) and not licking the sound before you put it in (saw that in a vid once) is probably also a good idea.