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 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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: CHALLENGES 1. War Bonds: Love and Lust on the Battlefield 2. Elegy for My Father's Dick 3. Making Room for Roy: A Survivor's Journey to Wholeness 4. Out of Isolation 5. Mapping My Desire 6. Razors and Roses 7. Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars 8. Porn Star? 9. If I Were a Straight Man 10. Confessions of a Pregnant Husband 11. Shadows in the Mirror 12. In the Body of a Man 13. Finding My "Yes!" 14. Does Colorless Hair Cure Bisexuality? 15. Doing Time 16. burnmarks, bleachstains, n things that block the sun 17. Sex, Blindness, and the Way of the Wound 18. Middle-Aged, Queer, and HIV Positive 19. What the Fuck? 20. Lion's Courtesan 21. What I Learned from One Mean Fucker PART II: OBSESSIONS 22. The Monster in the Closet: Men Who Molest Children 23. Hypatia's Children 24. I Wonder If My Great Great Toltec Grandmother Was Ever a National Geographic Centerfold 25. Pornography's Child 26. Dream: Initiation 27. Pumping Iron, Pumping Cocks: Sexual Activity in the Gym 28. Odin's Horse 29. Need 30. God Is a Bullet 31. Cock in My Pocket 32. Missing Parts 33. Differences 34. The Evolution of a Sexual Masochist 35. Power Lunch 36. Listening to Lust: A Conversation with Sonya Roberts About Aural Sex 37. Infernal Dreams PART III: POLITICS 38. Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex 39. On Pornography's Faces 40. G.I. Joe and Barbie K-I-S-S-I-N-G: Competitive Economics, Competitive Sex 41. 2 men kiss/a dollar n a dream (or the odds of unequal attraction) 42. When I Get That Feeling: A Conversation with Cleo Manago About Black Male Lust 43. Bangkok Story 44. Having Sex Outside the Box 45. Some Quick Screaming Notes About Male Lust 46. Fuel for Fantasy: The Ideological Construction of Male Lust 47. My Karma Has Just Run Over My Dogma: Addressing the Sexual Conflicts of Feminist Men 48. Pornography: Addiction and Rescue—A Conversation with Caleb Armes 49. Uncomfortable Questions: Black Men and Heterosexual Commercial Sex PART IV: INSPIRATION 50. Rings of Orgasms 51. Passionate Love for Christ: Out of the Closet, into the Streets 52. Hungry Suckle 53. The Nether Eye Opens 54. 1972 55. Anodigital 56. Midwife 57. Kiss Me 58. Holy Fuck 59. Resurrection of the Penis: A Political Poem About the Editors Contributors Index