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Dancing Around the Volcano Freeing Our Erotic Lives: Decoding the Enigma of Gay Men and Sex

ISBN-10: 0609801511

ISBN-13: 9780609801512

Edition: 1998

Authors: Guy Kettelhack

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Gay men have long been told that, regardless of their individual characters and desires, they should aspire to monogamous sexual and romantic relationships. Now Kettelhack offers a path to sexual liberation that embraces the paradoxes of sex.

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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 9/16/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.99" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English



Author's Note--and Acknowledgments



Paying Attention to Sex


Reclaiming the Beast


From Beast to Lover


From Lover to Human Being



The Uses of Sex


A New Look at Moral Responsibility


Boys Just Wanna Have Fun


Sex as Physical Discovery


Sex as Bungee Jump: Testing Limits


Sex as Employment: Hustlers and Johns


Sex as Intimacy: Becoming Vulnerable



The Ambiguity of the Jockstrap: Gay Men as Warriors and Shamans


Why We Scare Straight Men


The Warrior


The Shaman


Role-Playing as Revolution



Our Own Private Idahos: Reassessing Sexual Pathology, Compulsion, and Dysfunction


"Generative Asylums": Rethinking Pathology with Christopher Bollas


The Normality of Trauma, Symptoms as Self-Cure: Learning from Joyce McDougall


The Uses of Compulsion


The Uses of Impotence


Coda: Fetishes



"This is it, Kid: Sing"


The Challenge of Men Marrying Men


"To Make Us Feel Existence": A Practical Take on Spiritual Sex


Toward a Fruitcake Model of Self


Bibliography


Index