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| * The ''first'' book by a writer who has been too busy living what he writes about - to write about it! Now he wants to share his personal bliss with a discerning few - the fewer the better, competition being what it is!
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| * The ''first'' book to introduce the humanely necessary element of sexual responsibility into erotica.
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| * The ''first'' fictional work to demonstrate conclusively that boy-love can and should be fun - not sordid, self-condemning or degrading.
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| * The ''first'' fictional work to prove that Dr. Albert Ellis, who wrote, “Boys are lousy lovers,” was about as wrong as an ignorant, biased and presumptuous heterosexual can be.
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| * The ''first'' erotica that has its share of the usual four-letter words, but is also guaranteed to improve your vocabulary.
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| * The ''first'' book-length fictional work to explore a subject which has suffered a ban of silence for nearly two thousand years.
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| * The ''first'' fictional work to defy the publishers’ and censors’ bigoted edicts that boy-love must be portrayed with an unhappy - or at least a neutral - ending.
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| * The ''first'' book to introduce humor as a consistent feature of erotica.
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| * The ''first'' fictional work on boy-love since the ''Satyricon'' which treats openly of the subject, by one who knows it and has lived it - not by reporters or others who at best have only textbook, hearsay or second-hand knowledge.
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| * The ''first'' book which may change the sexual habits of at least a million heterosexual males all over the world!
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The Asbestos Diary (New York: Oliver Layton Press, 1966), is a groundbreaking, highly-acclaimed novel about BoyLove written by Casimir Dukahz, (pseudonym of Brian O. Drexel, b. July 07, 1909 d. June 28, 1988). In a humorous style full of wildly inventive wordplay, Dukahz evoked "in a fashion appropriately episodic both the bittersweet transience of boyhood and all the adolescent silliness and surprise encountered by a man constantly available for the entertainment of boys." [1] The Asbestos Diary created a sensation in its era and it has been argued that it was partly responsible for the rift between boylovers and radical feminists.
Background
The publisher of The Asbestos Diary asserted that it was a first in various ways. From the dust jacket of the First Edition:
