What do gay men want? : an essay on sex, risk, and subjectivity / David M. Halperin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halperin, David M., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Psychology.

Gay men.

Sex (Psychology).

Gay men--Attitudes.

Physical Description:

167 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007]

Summary:

Unlike most writers on the topic of gay men and risky sex, David Halperin liberates gay male subjectivity from psychology, demonstrating the insidious ways in which psychology's defining opposition between the normal and the pathological subjects homosexuality to medical reasoning and revives a whole set of unexamined moral assumptions aboutgood? sex andbad? sex. He shows how the long history of gay men's uses ofabjection? can offer an alternative, nonmoralistic model for thinking about gay male subjectivity, something which is urgently needed in the age of barebacking. David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Professor of English, Professor of Women's Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-151).

ISBN:

9780472116225

0472116223

OCLC:

128237053