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For a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s,
becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching
and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the
development of viral suppression treatments and preventative pills
such as PrEP and nPEP has massively reduced the risk of acquiring
HIV. Yet some of the stigma around gay male promiscuity and
bareback sex has remained, inhibiting open dialogues about sexual
desire, risk, and pleasure.  A Pill for
Promiscuity brings together academics, artists, and
activists—from different generations, countries, ethnic
backgrounds, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has
changed in a post-PrEP era. Some offer personal perspectives on the
value of promiscuity and the sexual communities it fosters, while
others critique unequal access to PrEP and the increased role Big
Pharma now plays in gay life. With a diverse group of contributors
that includes novelist Andrew Holleran, trans scholar Lore/tta
LeMaster, cartoonist Steve MacIsaac, and pornographic film director
Mister Pam, this book asks provocative questions about how we might
reimagine queer sex and sexuality in the 21st century.Â
Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel is a raucous,
hilarious journey through political dangers that come in all
shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities, a trip into the wild,
sometimes outrageous world of the Texas-Mexico border and all
geographical and anatomical points south. Honore del Castillo runs
the family curio shop in the backwater border town of Escandon,
Texas, and fears dying in front of his TV like some six-pack Jose
in his barrio. Encouraged by his friend Trotsky, he becomes
politically active-smuggling refugees, airlifting guns to Mexican
revolutionaries, negotiating with radical Chicana lesbians-but the
naked truths he faces are more often naked than true and constantly
threaten to unman him. When a convoy loaded with humanitarian aid
bound for Nicaragua pulls into Escandon, his journey to becoming a
true revolutionary hero begins, first on Escandon's international
bridge and then on the highways of Mexico. But not until both the
convoy and Honore's mortality and manhood are threatened in
Guatemala does he finally confront the complications of his love
for his wife and daughter, his political principles, the stench of
human fear, and ultimately what it means to be a principled man in
a screwed-up world.
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