Fist of Gold

The gay male fetish of fisting is typically depicted as a leather man extreme act, but to the young archaeologist, Kyle Kendrick, visiting his former Oxford University mentor and fisting initiator, Sir Geoffrey Bentham, at a Mali gold treasure dig in the decade following World War II, it is a refined art. It’s also necessary preliminary preparation for Kyle to have a satisfactory sexual experience. As rare as the practitioners are of the art, Kyle meets an Italian businessman on the plane to Mali who is a master of it and a Native Malian hunk who practices it as a ritual. Both they and Sir Geoffrey are willing and prepared to give Kyle what he needs.

This short story delves into the erotic nature of the fetish at the less-extreme end of the spectrum.