
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Queer Pleasure Without Apology
About this book
Approaches stigmatized sex with candor and curiosity, interweaving experience and analysis to better appreciate the intricacies and intrigue of queer desires and pleasures.
Queer theorists have long defended stigmatized sexual desires and behaviors by demonstrating how they are either fundamentally harmless or have some higher political, psychological, or social value. While such defenses may be useful in combatting homophobia, the mandate that sex be either benign or virtuous has impeded our ability to apprehend the nuance and variety of the things that turn us on and get us off. Queer Pleasure Without Apology refuses this mandate, approaching stigmatized sex with curiosity rather than judgment. Greg Goldberg examines his own "bad" desires and behaviors-from anonymous sex to fetishization to playing games-to show how critics keep getting them wrong. Heady and humorous, Queer Pleasure Without Apology challenges us to think about sex in a way that is as playful and perplexing as sex itself.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Filthy Little Pig
- Chapter 1 The Defense Rests
- Chapter 2 Impersonal Intimacy
- Chapter 3 Labels Are for People
- Chapter 4 Masc for Masc
- Chapter 5 Abject Objects
- Chapter 6 Meet Markets
- Chapter 7 Plaything
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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