Radical Sex Between Men

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, CanadaThomas 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

• Foreword [Winston Gieseke] Introduction: RadSex in Theory and in Practice [Stuart J. Murray, Dave Holmes, and Thomas Foth] Part I: Bareback Sex 1. Brothers-in-Cum: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Barebacking Rhetoric [Dave Holmes, Chad Hammond, and Mathieu Mercier] 2. Mediated Intimacies: Raw Sex, Truvada and the Biopolitics of Chemoprophylaxis [Tim Dean] 3. "Not Only Macho-fuckers are Barebackers": Challenging Gender Relations among Men who Have Sex with Men [Angel Gasch] 4. The Anatomy of a Forbidden Desire: Men, Penetration and Semen Exchange [Dave Holmes and Dan Warner] PART II: BDSM Practices 5. BDSM, Sexual Subcultures, and the Ethics of Public Health Discourse [Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray, Natasha Knack, Mathieu Mercier, and J. Paul Fedoroff] 6. Degenitalizing the Sexual: BDSM Practices and the Deterriorialization of Bodies [Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray, Natasha Knack, Mathieu Mercier, and J. Paul Fedoroff] 7. Fucking with Fluids and Wet with Desire: Power and Humiliation using Cum, Piss, and Blood [Jeremy Thomas and DJ Williams] PART III: Public Sex 8. Transgressive Assemblages: An Ethnography of Gay Group Sex [Dave Holmes, Patrick O’Byrne, Stuart J Murray, Chad Hammond, and Mathieu Mercier] 9. Faceless Sex: Glory Holes and Sexual Assemblages [Dave Holmes, Patrick O’Byrne, and Stuart J. Murray] 10. Profiling Postmodern Public Sex: How Grindr Revolutionized the Face of Gay Cruising [Matthew Numer, Dave Holmes, Phillip Joy, and Ryan Thompson] 11. Secret Desires: Masculinities in the Era of Network Relations [Luiz Felipe Zago, Larissa Pelucio, and Richard Miskolci]