Book Review: "Times Square...In Brooklyn?" by Mykola Dementiuk

Times Square...In Brooklyn? by Mykola Dementiuk

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


In the latest ebook from award winning adult fiction author Mykola Dementiuk, "Times Square...In Brooklyn?" (86 pages, published 01/01/11 by eXtasy Books - $3.99) we are introduced to Matt. Matt is an angry, scared, confused and eternally horny character with a secret passion for dressing as a woman and trolling the seedy Times Square area for customers with whom he can have illicit, anonymous sex for whatever few dollars the client is willing to pay for his services. Sometimes they don't pay anything at all. But something bad happens one day that causes Matt to leave the Times Square area he loves so dearly and he seeks refuge in a cheap, fetid rooming house on the Lower East Side of Manhattan while he figures out what he will do next and where he will go from here. He seems to want to leave the life of a cross-dressing Times Square he-whore behind him...but can he?

One day, Matt meets an attractive young woman on the streets of lower Manhattan, Elizabeth, and is soon following her back to her place across the East River in Brooklyn - her drunken, twisted mother's place actually, where the two share a brief, animal-lust sexual encounter that leaves Matt feeling something he has rarely if ever experienced before - thoughts of love. But to be sure, these feelings of affection are only lust mistaken for love. It seems Matt has a hard time changing his lifestyle and it's about to become more difficult.

In a rather short span of time, Elizabeth leaves New York for college out of state and Matt is somehow talked into working as a housekeeper for Elizabeth's dreanged, alcoholic mother. She doesn't have to persuade him all that much really. Much to his delight, he is informed he will be doing the job...dressed as a woman, but he will be expected to "service" the lady (if one could call her that) of the house, on demand, as a man, whenever summoned to do so. At first he finds the prospect of such an advenure exciting, but quiclky he discovers that all is not fun and games in this twisted house of perversity.

The arrangement continues for some months, Matt's disgust at himself and his desperation to escape the situation he has put himself into both increase daily. When Elizabeth comes home from school on a break for the Thanksgiving holiday she is shocked to discover Matt has basically been enslaved by her obviously demented mother. Elizabeth tells Matt he is not the first to fall victim to her mother's dominance and, furthermore, she tells him he is in danger...a fact that was already slowly becoming clear in Matt's overly-sexed up brain.

Will Matt ever escape the sordid situation he has found himself, or rather allowed himself, to become entangled in? Will he ever feel safe returning to Manhattan to face his past there? Or will he be consumed by his carnal desires and make a new life for himself...making his own "Times Square...in Brooklyn?"


*"Times Square...In Brooklyn?" contains adult themes and graphic sexual content. It is intended for readers over the age of 18 only.

Goin' Out Honey? Cruising The Streets of 60's/70's Manhattan for Cheap Ho's with Mykola Dementiuk in His Latest "100 Whores - Memories of A John"

Cover art for "100 Whores", the new book by Mykola Dementiuk.

Congrats to our friend - author and fellow NYC history buff Mykola Dementiuk who has just had another book published by Synergy Press.

Award winning adult fantasy and subjects author Mykola (Mick) Dementiuk returns this month with his latest publication from Synergy Press, "100 Whores: Memories of a John," a collection of short stories detailing the sordid and sleazy underworld of street-hookers and the customers (the "johns") who patronized them in 1960's and 70's era Manhattan.

It was a place and time when sex and kinks of any kind of description or variety were available for those who were willing to pay the going rate, much like today. But times were bit different then. If you had $10 or $20 for the girl and another few dollars to get a room, just about what ever your horned-up mind could think of could be yours. But sometimes, you might get much more than you bargained for. Or maybe less. Or maybe just ripped off.

And there were just so many of these girls working the streets! All day he'd see them passing by, looking for the guys, some like himself, who were single and out looking for a good time, others who were looking to live out fantasies their wives or girlfriends might not indulge them in. God, the women! Young ones, some who were WAY too young, some who'd been on the streets only for a few days. Older, experienced women who'd been at it a bit too long maybe. Beautiful girls, ugly girls. A lot of girls who were, upon closer inspection, not really girls at all. Boozer chicks and doped-out junkie girls. And most of them would do whatever you wanted if you just had the money. There wasn't a lot of love for most of these girls, who by the time they hit the streets had become a nameless, almost faceless parade of mostly-affordable and easily attainable jizz receptacles.

Mick was young, (usually) had a job, and he had the money. Or he'd get it and come back. For the first 123 pages, he details, in short 1 - 2 page stories, the "100 Whores," each story a memory of an encounter with one of the working girls of 60's/70's Manhattan. Times Square was an obvious area where you might go to find whores in those days, but there was another area, further south, down on 3rd and 4th Avenues near 13th Street and the surrounding areas that the majority of these stories of Mick's adventures take place in. It was an area where old, cheap, run-down motels were abundant in those pre-gentrification days. The guy running the front desk sure didn't give a fuck what you were getting up to...and he wasn't stupid, either.

There are also tales of kinky, anonymous sexual encounters that take place in the now hard to imagine adult XXX theatres that used to be so prevalent in New York in those "sexual revolution" days. The pimps and other various shady characters of questionable stability and mentality were always nearby, threatening and disturbing much of the time.

As Mick states in the introduction to the book, "I was there when the whores were everywhere - the pimps, the johns, the winos, the alcoholics, the drug addicts - until you get a headache just thinking about it. Well the headaches are gone, the area is a much different place, but I still miss those days and events, no matter how crazy or dangerous they were..."

The second half of the book is given over to six short stories, with titles including "The Dildo", "The Trouble With Girls", "Cry, Baby", "Girlfriends", "The Girl On The Cardboard", and "Christmas Whore", each detaling stories of a similar vein to those found in the "100 Whores" section of the book. A woman teasing men in adult bookstores, she-pimps enslaving and selling the services of T.V. boys in 42nd Street prorno theatres, brutal butch lesbians selling the services of beaten and bruised submissive girls who will fuck you on a piece of dirty cardboard in plain view of everyone in the park for just a few dollars. A pair of young girls who find themselves in a twisted sexual encounter involving strangers in a dirty bathroom in another squalid porno theatre - a scene decribed in so much detail that you can almost smell the piss and amyl nitrate poppers.

All these scenarios and more like them play out in the second half of the book. Definately not reading for those with a "vanilla" sexual view of the world. "100 Whores" will be most enjoyed by those who are a bit more adventerous, have a bit more of an open mind and are curious concerning adult behaviours and activities that were so commonplace in the very different, now legendary time and place that was the sex-for-sale world of anything goes free-for-all in 1960's and 70's era New York City.

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100 Whores
106 stories of lust, anger, betrayal, degredation and love. Stories of a New York world of whores in the nineteen sixties, when the drugs flowed, and Times Square was never far away.

Perfect Bound.
5.5" X 8.5"
242 Pages
ISBN: 0-9758581-8-1

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Suggested Reading: Times Queer - A Novella by Mykola Dementiuk

(Image via: Mykola Dementiuk.com)

Originally published in 2006 and reprinted in 2008, "Times Queer" by author Mykola Dementiuk, is a fictional, disturbing look into the sexually dysfunctional world of main character Richard Kozlovsky.

Richard, a Catholic school boy, grows up on the Lower East Side in New York City and has his first sexual experience at age seven, on a subway ride, where he is fondled by a strange man as his parents sit nearby, aparently oblivious. This experience sets the tone for what is to follow - frequent trips to Times Square's porno movie houses, public masturbation, casual, disconnected sexual encounters with classmates and with older men in the dark recesses of parks frequented by predatory men looking for young lovers. Eventually, Richard (aka Ricky) becomes the predator, occasionally using his youthful looks and sexual come-ons as a pre-text to mugging men for thier money - all this and more occuring by the time Ricky reaches the eighth grade.

Ricky eventually meets a woman of obvious disrepute outside one of the many Times Square movie houses and immediately becomes her pimp, selling her off to a strange man for $10.00 (or was it only $5.00?). A few days later he runs into her again, this time in Bryant Park, where they share a cigarette, a few laughs, then eventually they head to her seedy, abandoned 10th Avenue apartment. Ricky finds her beautiful "like a Times Square porno dream", until he has his way with her, losing his virginity in the process, after which he immediately finds her to be a disgusting whore, to be used and forgotten...until weeks later when she was needed, again, for his gratification.

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When he eventually finds her, she is on her knees in the Bryant movie house on 42nd Street, doing what she does best, pleasuring a guy sitting in a no-doubt sticky seat as he watches the action taking place on the big screen. When she is finished and the guy gets up and leaves, Ricky approaches "Red", as he calls her, and trhey leave the theatre and find themselves in another abandoned squat where she takes her lovers and/or customers. After another night of sexual abandon with Red, Ricky again feels the need to get away from her, which he does. But he is soon thinking about her again. Unfortunately for him, he will have to wait his turn, she has business to attend to...there is money to be made, an endless supply of horny men visiting the porno capital of the free world to cater to. Ricky bides his time wandering the streets of the Deuce, spending time thinking dirty thoughts while looking at porno magazines in one of the shops at the Port Authority bus station.

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During his time wandering the streets over the course of the following days, Ricky has a chance encounter with an old school mate, again in the confines of the Bryant movie house - this time in the bathroom. "Joey" demands that Ricky pleasure him, Ricky, just trying to take a leak, afraid he is becoming a homosexual already, declines. Joey insists. Ricky struggles away and runs from the bathroom as Joey shouts obscenities behind him. The next several days are spent in fear that he might encounter Joey on the streets again and then who knows what might happen?

The reader does not have to wait long to find out. Just a few days later, Ricky sees Joey, along with his beloved/reviled Red, heading into Bryant park. He follows them and is soon involved in a scene he could have never expected to unfold...

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You can find read all the sordid details of Ricky's adventures and find out how the story ends by ordering a copy of the book "Times Queer" (soft-cover, 96 pages - $15.00) by Mykola Dementiuk, from Synergy Press/Book Service. The book is also available in an "e-book" format ($6.00 or only $4.00 with a purchase of the print edition), also available from Synergy Press, which contains several photos of places mentioned throughout the book. The photos are NOT included in the print edition. Several other titles by Mr. Dementiuk, including "Holy Communion", "Vienna Dolorossa", and "Baby Doll" can also be purchased through Synergy.

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Dementiuk's next novella, about street girls, titled ‘100 Whores and other stories’ is due out around Christmas 2009 from Synergy Press

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To order these and many other titles of adults-only (NSFW) themed reading, visit the publishers website at: Synergy Book Service.com.

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Visit author Mykola Dementiuk's wesite at: Mykola Dementiuk.com

When The Deuce Was Still Dirty - Mykola Dementiuk's "Murder In Times Square" Returns Readers To A Sleazier Times Square

The latest e-book from award winning adult fiction author (and friend of this blog) Mykola Dementiuk, this time from eXtasy Books ($2.99 - can't beat that!), is a sleazy, fictional stroll through 1969-era Times Square, New York City, complete with all the booze, illicit, anonymous sex and criminal behaviour that were so commonplace there at that time.

It was all about the sex baby...getting a hand job, a blow job, getting laid. Usually sex with a complete stranger. At any cost...which in those days, was cheaply accomplished, usually at some sleazy off-Times Square hotel or in the myriad adult theatres that lined the Deuce, the area around 8th Avenue and 42nd Street, that in those days was the adult playground to the world.

Unfortunately for the main character of THIS tale, he finds himself associated with the wrong lady. Maybe "murderous whore" would be a better title for her. In a fit of drunken rage, a murder is commited and our main character finds himself wrapped up in an adventure of debaunchery the likes of which he never could have imagined when he first met "Connie," the woman who would change his life...and not for the better. "

*Murder In Times Square" contains graphic adult content and is not intended for readers under 18 years of age.