Research Catalog

Title

Policing public sex : queer politics and the future of AIDS activism / edited by Dangerous Bedfellows.

Publication

Boston, MA : South End Press, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Colter, Ephen Glenn, 1968-
• Dangerous Bedfellows.

Description

416 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Sex at the end of this millennium is unusually complex. Addressing debates about safe sex, prostitution, sex in parks, & media publicity of sex, Policing Public Sex provides a vital historical & global context for today's sexual liberationists.

Subject

• Homosexuality > United States
• Sex industry > United States
• Prostitution > United States
• Sexual ethics > United States
• AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects > United States
• Public sex > United States
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
• United States

Note

• Edited by Ephen Glenn Colter and others.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-408) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Prologue / Lisa Duggan -- Introduction / Dangerous Bedfellows Part I: Public sex. Sex club owners : the [fuck suck] buck stops here / Jay Blotcher -- The twilight (zone) of commercial sex / David Serlin -- Going public : a conversation with Lidell Jackson and Jocelyn Taylor / Kendall Thomas -- Public space for public sex / John Lindell -- Talking with my mouth full / Scott O'Hara.
• Part II: Aids activism. Dangerous practices : ideological uses of the 'second wave' / Alison Redick -- I was a teenage HIV prevention activist / Stephen Gendin -- Why we stopped doing primary prevention for gay men in 1985 / Walt Odets -- Discernibly turgid : safer sex and public policy / Ephen Glenn Colter -- An AIDS vaccine : it's possible, so why isn't it being done? / Mark Schoofs.
• Part III: Policing sexuality. The history of gay bathhouses / Allan Bérubé -- Bathhouses and brothels : symbolic sites in discourse and practice / Priscilla Alexander -- P.I.M.P. (prostitues in municipal politics) / Carol Leigh -- From soubrette row to show world : the contested sexualities of Times Square, 1880-1995 / Timothy J. Gilfoyle -- The D.O.H. papers : regulating public sex in New York City / Marc E. Elovitz and P.J. Edwards.
• Part IV: Queer politics. Seducing women into 'a lifestyle of vaginal fisting' : lesbian sex gets virtually dangerous / Amber Hollibaugh -- Skipping the life fantastic : coming of age in the sexual devolution / Wayne Hoffman -- José Esteban Muñoz / Ghosts of public sex : utopian longings, queer memories / Domesticating partnerships / Eva Pendleton -- Epilogue : calculating the risk / Andrew Ross.

ISBN

• 0896085503 (cloth)
• 089608549X (paper)

LCCN

^^^96012714^

OCLC

• 34471078
• SCSB-9971701

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library