Radical Sex Between Men : Assembling Desiring-Machines

This interdisciplinary collection brings together theory and public health practice to analyse three forms of radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex. Engaging with theorists such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, it mobilizes queer theory and poststructuralism to contribute to current research in gender and sexuality studies through grounded empirical case studies. With studies drawn from the USA, Brazil, Canada and Europe, it will be of interest to those researching gender and sexuality, anthropology, sociology, as well as practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and psychology.

Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes queer theory and poststructuralism, engaging the work of theorists such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault, among others. While the collection contributes to current research in gender and sexuality studies, it does so distinctly in the context of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, sexology, social work, anthropology, and sociology, as well as practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and psychology.