Cover of Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present

Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present

From the liberating discovery of "buddies" in the World War II trenches to the brutal repression of the '50s, from the heady possibilities that emerged in the wake of the Stonewall uprising to the hedonistic lovefests and ecstatic extremes of the baths and sex clubs of the '70s, and finally from the psychical and emotional carnage of the AIDS-plagued '80s to the '90s sex clubs, Douglas Sadownick provides a full-scale psychosocial analysis of the sexual behavior of gay men. Combining personal testimony, thoughtful commentary and glimpses of social history from archival material, Sex Between Menputs the sex back in homosexual.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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