Romeo & Seahorse

Romeo has Hepatitis again. It's no surprise, and when you haven't slept for days staying awake is easy. And anyway, there's the promise of more drugs, more sex. Leaving his boyfriend at home he heads out for hookups, getting abjectly high and pushing his body to grotesque extremes in an urgent but dissociated quest for romance. What follows is a delirious trip through squalid rooms, hospital wards, and nighttime parks, broken by memories of first loves, European travels, and meditations on what it means to be a Romeo. With chaotic chemsex escapades and musings on romantic love, art and belonging, Romeo & Seahorse takes us to places not often explored in fiction. Written in a relentless, frenzied first-person narrative with moments of mind-bending wisdom and poignancy, this is a one-of-a-kind novel about addiction, desire, belonging, and want that's destined to become a queer classic.

Romeo has Hepatitis again. It's no surprise, and when you haven't slept for days staying awake is easy. And anyway, there's the promise of more drugs, more sex. Leaving his boyfriend at home he heads out for hookups, getting abjectly high and pushing his body to grotesque extremes in an urgent but dissociated quest for romance. What follows is a delirious trip through squalid rooms, hospital wards, and nighttime parks, broken by memories of first loves, European travels, and meditations on what it means to be a Romeo. With chaotic chemsex escapades and musings on romantic love, art and belonging, Romeo & Seahorse takes us to places not often explored in fiction. Written in a relentless, frenzied first-person narrative with moments of mind-bending wisdom and poignancy, this is a one-of-a-kind novel about addiction, desire, belonging, and want that's destined to become a queer classic.

En nat i 2020 endte jeg på skadestuen, høj på crystal meth og med en dildo der havde sat sig på tværs i røven. Et blodigt og tåkrummende forsøg på selv at hive den ud med en gaffel og en bidetang er beskrevet i kapitlet der starter side 34 i bogen. Det var et rock bottom, men også en opvågning, en erkendelse af et problem jeg måtte forholde mig til. Skræmmende mange bøsser er blevet afhængige af en cocktail af sex og stoffer, også kaldet chemsex. Jeg er en af dem, og jeg har skrevet en bog om det. Det er min fjerde roman Romeo & Seahorse, og den udkommer 1. december på forlaget Gladiator.

En nat i 2020 endte jeg på skadestuen, høj på crystal meth og med en dildo der havde sat sig på tværs i røven. Et blodigt og tåkrummende forsøg på selv at hive den ud med en gaffel og en bidetang er beskrevet i kapitlet der starter side 34 i bogen. Det var et rock bottom, men også en opvågning, en erkendelse af et problem jeg måtte forholde mig til. Skræmmende mange bøsser er blevet afhængige af en cocktail af sex og stoffer, også kaldet chemsex. Jeg er en af dem, og jeg har skrevet en bog om det. Det er min fjerde roman Romeo & Seahorse, og den udkommer 1. december på forlaget Gladiator.