Books by Jim Stewart

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". Black Prince is a story about the slick, sensual fabric used for bike waterproofs "in the old days". It is remembered with lustful enthusiasm as the author vividly describes the watching, wanting, wearing and eventually getting trussed-up in this unique motorcycle gear. The sight, smell, feel and sound of being encased in heavily pungent material comes alive off the page.

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". The physical details and psychological effects of willingly encasing oneself in a fetish fabric are vividly captured here. Is being forced to stay in it long past the time when it is enjoyable a penalty or a bonus? For serious oilskin and PVC, fanatics the devil is in the described detail.

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". The Agency follows an Irish laborour looking for heterosexual action. Unemployed, he is tempted to join a group of men who enjoy elaborate and demanding man-to-man challenges. He finds himself involved in physical endurance where none of the usual rules apply. The reality of sometimes violent survival games are explored in various 'tests' the tough Irishman is subjected to.

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". Getting It Together is a collection of information and guides to help people fully understand the many aspects of bondage and fetish interests. It includes: 8 Information Sheets 12 Talking Points Letters from the Fetters files So I Like To Get Tied Up, So What?

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre,was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". Man to Man Stuff was developed with the permission of the original author. The story focuses on an ambitious young police officer and his man-to-man power-trips and how he controls his victims. With superb attention to detail, this story explores the conventions of masculinity, sexual identity and homo-erotic fantasy.

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". Brighton Front is a story based on actual experiences and focuses on the fantasy and reality of approaching a stranger in a public place, especially when the stranger is a tough ex-army man. A suspenseful tale of temptation and risk-taking.

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". A British biker on his way from Los Angeles to San Francisco, discovers that in a remote rural community, they have their own brand of home entertainment. In this rainy region of fruit-and-nut farms, the slick modern bike-gear is a tempting exotic contrast to the heavy-duty oilskins worn by the locals

Maurice James Stewart-Addison: 1932-2012. Jim pursued a successful career in the theatre, was the founder of Fetters, established a playroom and workshop at "40 Fitz" and created the Houdini Connections website to bring together information and ideas. Directly and indirectly, Jim did much to maintain essential individual freedoms and gave wise counsel to a great many people, he continues to give "permission to play". Visualising an encounter between an iconic New York Leatherman and somebody tempted to explore the Scene, provides the basis for suspenseful drama. Written in the style of a movie script, it is an exercise in 'visualising' the action more powerfully.

Jim Stewart, a survivor of the Titanic 1970s, has written a wonderful memoir revealing how South of Market became hip SoMa in San Francisco. Leading a lusty life surfing the first wave of gay liberation up to HIV, he is an uninhibited writer spilling personal tales of sex, art, and friendship during that first decade of Gay Liberation after Stonewall. As carpenter, he designed and constructed the sexy interiors of Folsom Street leather bars as well as of Fey-Way Studio, the first gay art gallery in San Francisco, where as photographer he exhibited his work on the walls he built. A pioneer settler in SoMa, he was fast friends with poet-singer Camille O'Grady, the leading lady of Folsom Street leather; with Oscar-Streaker Robert Opel who was murdered in his own Fey-Way gallery; with author Jack Fritscher and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe; with painter Chuck Arnett and porn mogul David Hurles; and with many other talents creating gay culture in San Francisco's influential "Drummer" Salon. As early as 1977, "Drummer" magazine published Stewart's leather photography. Folsom Street Blues continues his gift for words and images with manic, funny, and heartfelt profiles of real people who lived as if 1970s San Francisco were 1930s Berlin. Like Christopher Isherwood, Stewart is a camera. "Folsom Street Blues" is a picture-perfect portrait of the author as a young man among men experimenting with new identities in the sexual underground during the Titanic 1970s before the speeding first-class party, cruising on, crashed into the iceberg of HIV. Veterans of the 1970s party will applaud Stewart's humorous nostalgia. Younger readers may enjoy a safe peek into how 20th-century leatherfolk, dancing on tables and swinging from the chandeliers, helped found and form 21st-century diversity. Keep this book bedside with Edmund White's "My Lives," Felice Picano's "Like People in History," Jack Fritscher's "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982," Justin Spring's "Secret Historian," Patti Smith's "Just Kids," and Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City."

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