Male Lust Pleasure, Power, and Transformation

Male Lust: Pleasure, Power and Transformation is a provocative collection of personal essays and poetry that explores the emotional realities of men's diverse relationships with sex and desire. A wide variety of topics and political perspectives are covered, including discussions of sexual abuse, celebrations of S & M, thoughts on pornography, and discussions of racism that are written by men, women, and transgendered men. Covering a wide range of male experiences involving sex and desire, each story challenges the image of the ultra-macho he-man. For both straight and gay men, Male Lust looks beyond men's sexual stereotypes to the emotional realities of their personal experiences with sex.

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 bodyTogether, 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.

Contents Acknowledgments 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            

Kerwin Brook, Jill Nagle, Baruch Gould