Foth Thomas - Radical sex between men: assembling desiring-machines

Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyzes three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes queer theory and poststructuralism, engaging the work of theorists such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault, among others. While the collection contributes to current research in gender and sexuality studies, it does so distinctly in the context of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, sexology, social work, anthropology, and sociology, as well as practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and psychology.

Dave Holmes is a Professor and University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Stuart J. Murray is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Rhetoric and Ethics in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Thomas Foth is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Mid-century ethnographers mapping the deviant, exotic, gay subcultures such as cruising, the baths and tearoom could not have anticipated the civil liberties discourses that increasingly focused on the person and identities. However, the body and some sexual praxes retain a radical, transgressive seditious otherness. These sophisticated essays draw on post-structuralism, queer theory, and other theoretical perspectives to provide a timely, nuanced interdisciplinary re-imagining of power and resistance of erotic bodily practices in contemporary discursive formations of rad sex.

Professor Anthony Pryce-Curling, University of Greenwich, UK

Theoretically and empirically rich, this fascinating book breaks through limiting discourse to reveal new vistas on sexuality for all. Astonishing.

Dr Helen Lees, York St John University, UK

Sexualities in Society

Series editor:

Helen Hester, The University of West London, UK

www.routledge.com/Sexualities-in-Society/book-series/ASHSER1428

Sexualities in Society offers a dedicated and much-needed space for the very best in interdisciplinary research on sex, sexualities, and twenty-first century society. Its contemporary focus, methodological inclusivity, and international scope will provide a distinctive vantage point in terms of surveying the social organization of sexuality. It critically addresses numerous aspects of sex and sexuality, from media representations, to embodied sexual practices, to the sometimes controversial issues surrounding consent, sexual fantasy, and identity politics. It represents a critically rigorous, theoretically informed, and genuinely interdisciplinary attempt to interrogate a complex nexus of ideas regarding the ways in which sexualities inform, and are informed by, the broader sociopolitical contexts in which they emerge.

Titles in this series

1Rethinking Misogyny

Mens Perceptions of Female Power in Dating Relationships

Anna Arrowsmith

2Consumer Sexualities

Women and Sex Shopping

Rachel Wood

3Sex in the Digital Age

Paul G. Nixon and Isabel K. Dsterhft

4Radical Sex Between Men

Assembling Desiring-Machines

Edited by Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray and Thomas Foth

Edited by

Dave Holmes

Stuart J. Murray

Thomas Foth

First published 2018

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Holmes, Dave, editor. | Murray, Stuart J., editor. | Foth, Thomas, editor.

Title: Radical sex between men : assembling desiring-machines / edited by Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray and Thomas Foth.

Description: First Edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Sexualities in society ; 4 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017016967 | ISBN 9781138225497 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315399546 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Gay menSexual behavior.

Classification: LCC HQ76.115 .R33 2018 | DDC 306.77086/642dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017016967

ISBN: 978-1-138-22549-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-39954-6 (ebk)

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This edited collection is dedicated to Joseph Basak, my partner in crime during the time this book was written and assembled in Palm Springs, California, during the summer and fall of 2016. I thank him for our unrelenting and endless discussions and his thoughtful insights during numerous BBQs, dinners, hikes, camping trips, text messages, and email exchanges. I am also forever grateful that he helped me to discover new forms of pleasure in everyday life. I dedicate this book to him in the hope that it was worth it.

Professor Dave Holmes, RN, PhD

Ottawa, Canada

December 25, 2016