Queer Astrology for Men

Jill Dearman provides readers with a dozen templates for the modern gay male that could be viewed as archetypal or stereotypical, depending on how you feel about astrological profiling. "Cancer men in general have weird mother fixations," for example, while Pisces "are complete and total whores" in bed. She described what each sign is like in life and in bed, then tells you "how to seduce him," what you can expect on dates, "how to last over the long haul," and--should it prove necessary--"how to dump him." The second half of the book goes through all 78 possible matchups to gauge their compatibility, indicative of the book's implicit assumption that the reader is looking for a long-term relationship. Dearman addresses herself exclusively to the gay male; bisexuals will just have to take their chances on whether her information applies to them entirely, only by half, or not at all. --Ron Hogan