Hogg is a pornographic novel by Samuel R. Delany.[] It was written in San Francisco in 1969 and completed just days before the Stonewall Riots in New York City. A further draft was completed in 1973 in London. At the time it was written, no one would publish it due to its graphic and copious descriptions of murder, homosexuality, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape. Hogg was fina...
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Hogg is a pornographic novel by Samuel R. Delany.[] It was written in San Francisco in 1969 and completed just days before the Stonewall Riots in New York City. A further draft was completed in 1973 in London. At the time it was written, no one would publish it due to its graphic and copious descriptions of murder, homosexuality, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape. Hogg was finally published (with some further, though relatively minor, rewrites) in 1995 by Black Ice Books. The two successive editions have featured some correction, the last of which, published by Fiction Collective 2 in 2004, carries a note at the end stating that it is definitive.
The novel is told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy, who is unnamed, but frequently referred to as "cocksucker." It is not clear where the action of the story takes place. The narrator mentions various nearby areas - "Crawhole," "Frontwater," and "Ellenville,"...
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