Almost inadvertantly beautiful images arise out of mirror shots; photos taken into mirrors by young subjects wanting to post pictures of themselves; the attraction is in the basic instinct of display behind the shyness or the clowning around. Oftentimes, the composition is ideal, despite the spontaneity and amateur swiftness.

The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst, (author of The Folding Star) is a darkly erotic work, about a young aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity. The novel is a kind of Proustian panorama of young gay life, and is told with Hollinghurst's usual intelligent, high-literary style. The sex scenes, particularly with Beckwith's teenage boy lovers, are graphic at times.
http://www.amazon.com/Swimming-Pool-Library-Alan-Hollinghurst/dp/0679722564/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320971201&sr=1-1

 

Arthur Rimbaud was a young, bi-sexual French poet, who achieved his poetical heights as a teenager, writing nothing further after the age of twenty. Here he is, in youth, in one of only two known photos from that time.

Here he is again, given a stylish postmodern makeover.

Eros, in Greek mythology, was the Greek god of love. His Roman counterpart was Cupid ("desire"). Modern culture has Cupid as an impish, chubby-limbed, harmless icon; but the real Cupid was disobedient, carnal and reckless. here are some nice, though more sensual images in art:

The old and the new: an old sculpture of Eros, and a modern photograph - with eerie, and touching similarities:

The old and the new, again; this time a depiction of Eros in a classical painting, followed by a modern adaptation: