The Divided Path by Nial Kent

'He had known infatuation, but this...this was different! Bigger than anything he'd ever felt before. And it did not seem 'unnatural.' Now he felt himself quiveringly alive with an emotion that threatened to overwhelm him. Here was a situation he must face - one from which he had no desire to escape, yet he felt he must do so. A feeling of terror obsessed him. He must not see Paul again. And even as he made that decision, he knew that he lied to himself.' -Back cover
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Michael is a man of strange desires, fumbling his way through a workd of normals. This novel details his compulsive need for 'affection,' his frustrations and occasional ecsatasy, his tender love for his best friend Paul. And his sordid adventures into the underworld of perverts