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How is the practice of barebacking understood and represented
across media, theory, and policy? Marking the tenth anniversary of
Tim Dean's seminal work, Raw returns to the question of sex without
condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug
that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. The authors in
Raw push Dean's conclusions and show the urgent need to consider
condomless sex, as it is still illegal for HIV-positive people in
many jurisdictions. Contributors: Jonathan A. Allan (Brandon
University) Joseph Brennan (Sydney, Australia) Tim Dean (University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Elliot Evans (University of
Birmingham) Christien Garcia (University of Cambridge) Octavio R.
Gonzales (Wellesley College) Adam J. Greteman (School of the Art
Institute of Chicago) Frank G. Karioris (University of Pittsburgh
& American University of Central Asia) Gareth Longstaff
(Newcastle University) Paul Morris (San Francisco) Susanna Paasonen
(University of Turku) Diego Semerene (Oxford Brookes University)
Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University) Ricky Varghese (Toronto)
Rinaldo Walcott (University of Toronto)
Technology is rapidly advancing, and each innovation provides
opportunities for such technology to mesh with the human enactment
of physical intimacy or to be used in the quest for information
about sexuality. However, the availability of this technology has
complicated sexual decision making for young adults as they
continually navigate their sexual identity, orientation, behavior,
and community. Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age is a
pivotal reference source that improves the understanding of the
combination of technology and sexual decision making for young
adults, examining the role of technology in sexual identity
formation, sexual communication, relationship formation and
dissolution, and sexual learning and online sexual communities and
activism. While highlighting topics such as privacy management,
cyber intimacy, and digital communications, this book is ideally
designed for therapists, social workers, sociologists,
psychologists, counselors, healthcare professionals, scholars,
researchers, and students.
Homosexuals, transvestites, transsexuals, sado-masochists,
necrophiliacs - all of these have been, or still are, considered
'deviants'. Concomitantly there has been almost universal
acceptance that unembellished vaginal penetration, performed by one
man and one woman, is 'normal' sex. This is now contested. But what
is perverse sex and what isn't? The Pleasure's All Mine explores
the gamut of sexual activity that has been seen as strange,
abnormal or deviant over the last 2,000 years. This first
comprehensive history of sexual perversion examines an abundance of
original sources - letters, diaries, memoirs, court records, erotic
books, medical texts and advice manuals - and shows how, for
ordinary people, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad
different pleasures. There never was a 'normal'. Almost all sexual
behaviours have travelled to and fro along a continuum of
proscription and acceptance. Attitudes have changed towards
masturbation, leatherwear, 'golden showers' and sado-masochism.From
the specialized cultures of pain, necrophilia and bestiality to the
social world of plushies and furries, and lovers of life-sized sex
dolls, some previously acceptable behaviour now provokes social
outrage, while activities as diverse as sodomy and wife-swapping
have moved on the spectrum of acceptance from sin to harmless fun.
Each 'perversion' is explored from the time it was first visible in
history, to how it is viewed today, and along the way the book asks
why we can be so intolerant of other people's sexual preferences.
Carefully researched as well as a fascinating read, and featuring a
wide array of illustrations, The Pleasure's All Mine reaches
conclusions that are surprising and sometimes shocking. This is an
essential volume for anyone interested in the art, history and
culture of sex.
The collective consciousness of World War II revolved around the
virtues of bravery, sacrifice, and commitment. Members of the
"Greatest Generation" toed political and social lines in hopes of
winning the war. They fell into lockstep, not asking many questions
and breaking few social and sexual mores. Or did they?In fact,
World War II, like all wars, was an era of sexual experimentation
and a general loosening of morals. During this time of conflicting
emotions and messages, of great sacrifice, and of discovery, some
groups, especially women, experienced a relaxing of bonds that had
kept them in check. "Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex, and World
War II" is the true story of how that generation responded to the
fervor of war and how those passions changed their lives-and the
relationships between the sexes-forever.But this book is more than
that. As Jane Mersky Leder writes, ""Thanks for the Memories" opens
the hearts and memories of a generation that is dying, by one
estimate, at the rate of more than 1,000 a day." It not only
exposes the Greatest Generation's sexual and romantic escapades, it
underscores how those four war years revolutionized relationships
(including those between gays) and helped set the stage for the
second wave of the women's liberation movement. "Many who never
thought their stories mattered," Leder writes, "now feel the pull
of limited time, and the importance of leaving an accurate account
for their children and grandchildren of what it was like to be a
young man or young woman during World War II. This is their
collective story."
This book considers a burgeoning social phenomenon, compensated
dating in Hong Kong, that facilitates direct commercial sex
exchange between consenting females from their mid-teens through
the late 20s and males from their early 20s to mid-adulthood.
Informed by the transformation of intimacy, the breakdown of
institutional constraints, the emergence of a new female sexual
autonomy and the advancement of information technology, this book
moves beyond stereotypes of sex work to look at the complexities of
compensated dating. The phenomenon of compensated dating is
distinctive from most other sex trades in that it involves intense
emotional interactions and often extends beyond the commercial
boundary. Given the dynamic, flexible and ambiguous nature of
compensated dating, it has become more of a space for sexual
explorations and less of a rigid model of commercial sex, at least
in the eye of the participants. This book walks through how men
become involved in compensated dating and also sheds lights on how
gender relations are negotiated, with important implications on
what it means to be a man and a woman in contemporary Hong Kong
society. It also speaks to the broader transformations of some of
the key social structures and elements, particularly gender and
sexualities, in the era of late modernity.
This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile's claims to
economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite
aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite
the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over
the past fifty years, the country's view of itself as a "model" in
contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant.
By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer
figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the
exceptionalisms of Chile's economic discourse, the subjects deemed
most (and least) apt to embody it, and the maneuvers of its
cultural production between local and global ideas of gender and
politics to delineate its place in the world. Queering the Chilean
Way thus sheds light on the sexual, economic, and aesthetic
dimensions of exceptionalism-at its heart, a discourse of exclusion
that often comprises a major element of nationalism-in Chile and
throughout the Americas.
Infidelity raises questions: Why do women stay with a cheater? Why
do women cheat? Why do women become "the other woman"? How does the
experience of infidelity impact future relationships? What effect
does infidelity have on children? How do women deal with children
born from a spouse's affair? Drawing on interviews with U.S. women
of various ages, racial backgrounds, educational attainments and
sexual orientations, this insightful study examines their personal
experiences of cheating and being cheated on. Equal parts engaging,
uplifting and dispiriting, their narratives range from
all-too-familiar stories to unconventional perspectives on love,
life and interpersonal communication.
Why is 'love' taken for granted as a part of human experience? And
why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us?
This book aims to find out, tracing the intellectual history of
sexual love, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day. Erotic Love
in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature shows how discourses of
love have intersected with social and cultural trends, as well as
with personal events and experiences. Beginning with the queering
of love in Greek antiquity, it looks at how sexual love has been
sung about, fictionalized and theorized as a cornerstone of the
formation of Western culture. From the courtly love of
twelfth-century troubadours and the rise of affective individualism
in the eighteenth century, to the way the novel helped catalyze and
crystallize the hopes and contradictions of love and marriage,
these are decisive episodes in the history of romantic love.
Lastly, the book deals with how sociologists and feminist theorists
have made sense of the liberalization of sexuality over the last
fifty years, especially given the post-romantic pragmatism of
commercialized dating practices. Arguing against the
over-rationalism of intimate life, Erotic Love in Sociology,
Philosophy and Literature recognizes the need to liberate love from
patriarchal, racist and homophobic prejudices, and highlights the
value of literary and sociological traditions to emphasize how they
dignify the rhapsodies and the sufferings of love.
The Gender Revolution and New Sexual Health: Celebrating Unlimited
Diversity of the Human Sexuality Hypercube deconstructs the gender
binary and introduces students to the mathematics of unlimited
human sexual diversity. The book bridges academic sexual science
and real-world application of knowledge to improve personal
satisfaction. It also prepares future healthcare providers, as well
as those in other helping professions, to assist clients in a way
that helps them increase their own personal comfort, confidence,
and knowledge related to gender and sexual health. The text
provides students with practical approaches to overcome the various
challenges individuals face related to gender and sexuality. The
chapters explore topics including sexual literacy, gender
dysphoria, the history of sex education, health, and attitudes in
the United States, sexual identity and orientation, the health
benefits of sexual expression, gender fluidity, and more. The text
features questionnaires that can be used to measure personal
satisfaction, success stories from the field, and a glossary to
assist with new terms and concepts. The Gender Revolution and New
Sexual Health is an excellent resource for courses in sexual
health, women's health, gender studies, psychology, psychiatry,
nursing, counseling, and sociology.
An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and
deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will
reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period.
Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it
explores every facet of sexuality that the Victorians encountered.
Reproducing original advertisements and letters, with extracts
taken from memoirs, legal cases, newspaper advice columns, and
collections held in the Museum of London and the British Museum,
this book lifts the veil from historical sexual attitudes.
What are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how
have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer
politics of the present? This book sheds light on an area long
ignored by traditional art history and LGBTQ studies, examining the
legacies of the visual and material cultures of US leather
communities. It discusses the work of contemporary artists such as
Patrick Staff, Dean Sameshima, Monica Majoli, AK Burns and AL
Steiner, and the artist collective Die Kranken, showing how
archival histories and contemporary artistic projects might be
applied in a broader analysis of LGBTQ culture and norms. Hanky
codes, blurry photographs of Tom of Finland drawings, a pin sash
weighted down with divergent histories - these become touchstones
for writing leather histories. -- .
This book explores the courtship and marriage of Gwyneth Murray, an
English woman, and a Canadian, Harry Logan, who wrote in the
personae of their vagina (Dardanella) and penis (Peter) during
World War I. Through an analysis of their extensive daily
correspondence over nearly a decade, it uncovers the couple's
changing attitudes to the intersection of sexuality and religion,
to marriage and childrearing, as they navigated the transition from
Victorian to modern values. By focusing on first-person narratives,
this book enriches our understanding of gender identities revealing
how porous the boundaries remained between notions of
'heterosexual' and 'same-sex' friendships. This study offers an
unprecedented perspective on one couple's sexual practices, which
included mutual masturbation and oral sex, and constitutes one of
the most intensive examinations of female attitudes to sexual
pleasure in an era of female emancipation.
In this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and
Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies
in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South
America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the
importance of sexual practices in most mainstream studies of
slavery, Berry and Harris argue here that sexual intimacy
constituted a core terrain of struggle between slaveholders and the
enslaved. These essays explore consensual sexual intimacy and
expression within slave communities, as well as sexual
relationships across lines of race, status, and power. Contributors
explore sexuality as a tool of control, exploitation, and
repression and as an expression of autonomy, resistance, and
defiance.
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