Barebacking—when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex—has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for Unlimited Intimacy, Tim Dean’s riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it.
Audacious and undeniably provocative, Dean’s profoundly reflective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the twenty-first century. Dean’s extensive research into the subculture provides a tour of the scene’s bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an explicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and documents his own personal experiences in the culture. But ultimately, it is HIV that animates the controversy around barebacking, and Unlimited Intimacy explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus—especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intimacy without limits—one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite literal—barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works.
Written with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, Unlimited Intimacy will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior.
9 有用 云何不乐 2017-09-16 15:19:21
无套性交象征无间亲密。无套属于同性恋亚文化,参与其中不仅为个人享乐,也为维系亚文化的延续,为反抗“正常化“而”担风险。艾滋作为无法治愈的慢性病,在男同性恋间创造新的亲缘关系——同性恋通过病毒繁衍。相关的猎艳打破阶级和种族界限,城市生活无法避免生人,猎艳让他者同时作为生人和恋人。
1 有用 0k119xtycuffir 2025-05-20 12:30:32 四川
money shot/reverse money shot/multiple displaced money shot/water sports/bareback/creampie… 回到Sontag,这种bareback社群/亚文化其实是在一个强大隐喻传统下的对于HIV的情色化恋物化以此掌控恐惧、建构一种独特的身份认同。但是我还是质疑这种恋物/隐喻的转换,它只是再一次(从一个独特的角度)印证了隐... money shot/reverse money shot/multiple displaced money shot/water sports/bareback/creampie… 回到Sontag,这种bareback社群/亚文化其实是在一个强大隐喻传统下的对于HIV的情色化恋物化以此掌控恐惧、建构一种独特的身份认同。但是我还是质疑这种恋物/隐喻的转换,它只是再一次(从一个独特的角度)印证了隐喻一旦形成,产生的影响是多么多么深远复杂,甚至催生出与之对抗和戏谑化之上的亚文化实践… (展开)
0 有用 喵夫斯基 2014-02-25 22:08:44
Intimacy Overdosed