Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation

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Men from a variety of sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds overturn myths about male sexuality and desire! Male sexuality comes of age in this provocative collection of personal essays and poetry. Male Lust's nearly 60 contributors explore emotional, social, and political aspects of sex and desire from a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and sexual orientations. Answering the... Read more

Men from a variety of sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds overturn myths about male sexuality and desire!

Male sexuality comes of age in this provocative collection of personal essays and poetry. Male Lust's nearly 60 contributors explore emotional, social, and political aspects of sex and desire from a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and sexual orientations. Answering the long-standing challenge for men to finally theorize the complexity of their own sexual desires, Male Lust (a 2001 Lambda Gay Studies Literary Award Finalist) delves into topics such as commercial sex, sadomasochism, feminism, and white supremacy without lapsing into reactionary, knee-jerk or misogynist stances. This book offers a positive sexual vision that moves far beyond the narrow messages offered in mainstream media.

Male Lust reveals thoughtful, detailed realities of gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, and same-gender-loving men's personal experiences with sex that lurk behind the stereotypes. Among the many topics that the essays, stories, and poems herein chronicle are:

various facets of men's and women's experience with commercial sex, both as consumers and providers
social and hormonal phenomena involved in transitioning from female to male
handling the impact of white supremacy on male lust as a man of color
the transformational possibilities of S/M
women's responses to the lusts of the men in their lives
coming of age with a “deviant” gender or sexual orientation
healing from rape and other forms of sexual abuse
coming to terms with loving and desiring women within a misogynist culture
lust and desire within a disabled body

Together, the contributors break the noisy silence surrounding male lust, challenge the dominant images of men as unemotional sexual predators, and expose the live, beating hearts, minds, and souls of real men loving, healing, and revealing themselves, each other, and the women in their lives. Male Lust heralds the next generation of thinking men--a must-read for anyone seeking cutting-edge ideas on sexuality and desire.

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Introduction
Part One: Challenges
War Bonds: Love and Lust on the Battlefield
Elegy for My Father's Dick
Making Room for Roy: A Survivor's Journey to Wholeness
Out of Isolation
Mapping My Desire
Razors and Roses
Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars
Porn Star?
If I Were a Straight Man. . .
Confessions of a Pregnant Husband
Shadows in the Mirror
In the Body of a Man
Finding My “Yes!”
Does Colorless Hair Cure Bisexuality?
Doing Time
burnmarks, bleachstains, n things that block the sun
Sex, Blindness, and the Way of the Wound (William Thompson)
What the Fuck?
Lion's Courtesan
What I Learned from One Mean Fucker
Part Two: Obsessions
The Monster in the Closet: Men Who Molest Children (Paul Fleischer)
Hypatia's Children
I Wonder if My Great Great Toltec Grandmother was Ever a National Geographic Centerfold (
Pornography's Child
Dream: Initiation
Pumping Iron, Pumping Cocks: Sexual Activity in the Gym
Odin's Horse
Need
God Is a Bullet
Cock in My Pocket
Missing Parts
Differences
The Evolution of a Sexual Masochist
Power Lunch
Listening to Lust: A Conversation with Sonya Roberts About Aural Sex
Infernal Dreams
Part Three: Politics
Why Men Are so Obsessed with Sex
On Pornography's Faces
GI Joe and Barbie K-I-S-S-I-N-G: Competitive Economics, Comnpetitive Sex
2 men kiss / a dollar n a dream (or the odds of unequal attraction)
When I Get that Feeling: A Conversation with Cleo Mango About Black Male Lust
Bangkok Story
Having Sex Outside the Box
Some Quick Screaming Notes About Male Lust
Fuel for Fantasy: The Ideological Construction of Male Lust
My Karma Has Just Run Over My Dogma: Addressing the Sexual Conflicts of Feminist Men
Pornography: Addiction and Rescue--A Conversation with Caleb Armes
Uncomfortable Questions: Black Men and Heterosexual Commercial Sex
Part Four: Inspiration
Rings of Orgasms
Passionate Love for Christ: Out of the Closet, Into the Streets
Hungry Suckle
The Nether Eye Opens
1972
Anondigital
Midwife
Kiss Me
Holy Fuck
Resurrection of the Penis: A Political Poem (Alison Luterman)
About the Editors
Contributors
Index
Reference Notes Included

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Kerwin Brook, Jill Nagle, Baruch Gould

Male Lust Pleasure, Power, and Transformation

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