1st Edition

Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures The Ethics of Becoming-Pig

By João Florêncio Copyright 2020
198 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyses contemporary gay "pig" masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised patterns of recreational drug use, examining how they trouble modern European understandings of the male body, their ethics, and their political underpinnings. This is the first book to reflect on an increasingly visible new form of sexualised gay... Read more

Introduction: Pig Masculinities

Chapter One: A Pig is What a Pig Does

Chapter Two: Porous Man W/holes

Chapter Three: Self-Augmenting Toxicities

Chapter Four: The Cummunion of Strangers

Chapter Five: Pig Ethics, Queer Futures

Biography

João Florêncio is a Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. His interdisciplinary research navigates the intersections of visual culture with queer theory, performance studies, and the medical and post-humanities in order to think the production and visual mediations of modern and contemporary bodies, subjectivities and sex cultures.

"In his study of the abject use to which bodies are joyously put by gay male sex pigs, João Florêncio extends the future-oriented strand of queer theory in new directions and toward "unknown islands" of "unforeseen pleasures," by suggesting that such horizons of queer masculine self-invention and solidarity might be located no place other than right there in the trough."

John Paul Ricco, author of The Logic of the Lure; and The Decision Between Us (both University of Chicago Press), and Professor of Queer Theory, Art History, and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.