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provided by the author. The following is an edited
press release for "Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation."
It is available in bookstores now.
For more information, go to: http://www.mlust.com
Male Lust:
Pleasure, Power and Transformation
edited by Kerwin Kay
Jill Nagle and Baruch Gould, associate editors
Haworth Press, Inc
ale Lust is a groundbreaking collection of nearly 60 personal essays, memoirs, stories, commentaries, and poems about men's diverse experiences with sex. While images of men pursuing sex abound, they typically duplicate one or two well-worn stereotypes, leaving little room for creativity, spontaneity or novelty in the fashioning a sexual self. Further, little information exists outside those stereotypes about the range of men's feelings, beliefs and practices regarding sex, sexuality and lust. In the past twenty years, women have produced a large amount of literature and erotica that breaks old molds and offers new ways of approaching their own sexuality. Male Lust continues this tradition of unearthing new erotic ground, with men writing about their own experience and ideas for transforming and reweaving male lust, love and politics.
From a wide variety of perspectives, the authors of Male Lust grapple with fear and shame, share successes and celebrations, recount journeys of healing from abuse, and blaze new trails of self-love and discovery. Their topics include male sexual frustration and anger, sex and disability, producing and purchasing commercial sex, the impact of white supremacy on male lust, cruising for sex, exploring S/M, the fusion of sex with spirituality, and more. Contributors are heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered men, along with a few women. They write from various ethnic backgrounds and perspectives. Together, they 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.
HEAR THE AUTHORS!
Readings are presently being arranged in several cities in the U.S.
The present schedule of readings is as follows:
Readings in the S.F. Bay area to be announced)
mid-August
Washington D.C. (location to be announced)
mid-August
New York City (location to be announced)
end of August
Denver, CO (location to be announced)
end of August
Boulder, CO (location to be announced)
If you wish to be informed as future readings are finalized,
contact Kerwin Kay .
Advance praise for Male Lust:
"Goes beyond the cliches, and even beyond the alternative cliches, to break
new ground."
--Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report on Male Sexuality
"A fascinating chorus of voices testifying about the permutations of desire
in men's lives. Kay has been surprisingly successful in getting an awesome
range of men to speak, with great intelligence and feeling, about this
personal subject" --
--Pat Califia, author of Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex
"A wondrous look into the hearts and minds, groins and souls, of the
American male psyche."
--Michael Bronski, author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility
"[These] stories encourage us to heal the connection between our genitals
and our hearts."
--Joseph Kramer, EroSpirit Research Institute, Oakland CA
Contributors:
Contributors include Michael Kimmel (editor of Men Confront Pornography), Robert Goss (Jesus ACTED UP), Carol Queen (Real Live Nude Girl), John Stoltenberg (The End of Manhood), Tim Beneke (Men on Rape), David Steinberg (Erotic by Nature, editor of The Erotic Impulse), Sy Safransky (editor of the literary journal The Sun), performance artist Frank Moore, James Green (president of FtM International), Lawrence Schimel (co-editor of Switch Hitters and PoMoSexuals, both with Carol Queen), Justin Chin (Bite Hard), Cleo Manago (founder/president of AMASSI in Los Angeles), and actor/drag queen/porn star Geoffrey Karen Dior. For a complete list of contributors and a description of their writing, visit our website at <www.mlust.com>.
Editors:
Kerwin Kay is a freelance writer and activist. He has had articles published in Z Magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Anything That Moves,among others. During the past nine years, he has been active in anti-racist, anti-imperialist, feminist, men's movement, and bisexual/queer politics. In 1988 he organized the first Rocky Mountain Men's Conference in Boulder, CO. Kerwin has also participated in men's discussion and ritual groups for over six years. His work experience includes jobs at strip clubs and porn shops, and most recently he has become active in the movement to decriminalize prostitution. Kerwin lives in San Francisco where he spends much of his time in the company of sex workers, porn writers, queer activists and other friendly folks of various stripes. Kerwin is currently a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology at San Francisco State University where his thesis work focuses upon male street prostitutes and the agencies that serve them.
Jill Nagle edited Whores and Other Feminists (Routledge, 1997). Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica 2000, Best Bisexual Erotica and First Person Sexual, as well as in several periodicals such as American Book Review, On Our Backs and Girlfriends. You can visit Jill's website at <http://www.jillnagle.com/>.
Baruch Gould lives in San Francisco. He has been an AIDS and queer activist; is the father of three children; and has had an abiding experiential interest in the issue of sexuality as spirituality and vice versa. Baruch holds a Master of Divinity degree from a prestigious Ivy League university, is a student of Jungian psychology, a practitioner of the art of divination, a creator of wearable art, and an ardent lover of life. Baruch is currently involved in writing his memoirs.
For more information about:
Male Lust
edited by Kerwin Kay
go to : http://www.mlust.com
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