Contents

Acknowledgements

WINSTON GIESEKE

Introduction: RadSex in theory and in practice

STUART J. MURRAY, DAVE HOLMES, AND THOMAS FOTH

Part I
Bareback sex

1 Brothers-in-cum: a critical discourse analysis of barebacking rhetoric

DAVE HOLMES, CHAD HAMMOND, AND MATHIEU MERCIER

2 Mediated intimacies: raw sex, Truvada, and the politics of chemoprophylaxis

TIM DEAN

3 “Not only macho-fuckers are barebackers”: challenging gender relations among men who have sex with men

ANGEL GASCH

4 The anatomy of a forbidden desire: men, penetration, and semen exchange

DAVE HOLMES AND DAN WARNER

Part II
BDSM practices

5 BDSM, sexual subcultures, and the ethics of public health discourse

DAVE HOLMES, STUART J. MURRAY, NATASHA KNACK, MATHIEU MERCIER, AND J. PAUL FEDOROFF

6 Degenitalizing the sexual: BDSM practices and the deterritorialization of bodies and pleasures

DAVE HOLMES, STUART J. MURRAY, NATASHA KNACK, MATHIEU MERCIER, AND J. PAUL FEDOROFF

7 Fucking with fluids and wet with desire: power and humiliation using cum, piss, and blood

JEREMY N. THOMAS AND DJ WILLIAMS

Part III
Public sex

8 Transgressive assemblages: an ethnography of gay group sex

DAVE HOLMES, PATRICK O’BYRNE, STUART J. MURRAY, CHAD HAMMOND, AND MATHIEU MERCIER

9 Faceless sex: glory holes and sexual assemblages

DAVE HOLMES, PATRICK O’BYRNE, AND STUART J. MURRAY

10 Profiling public sex: how Grindr revolutionized the face of gay cruising

MATTHEW NUMER, DAVE HOLMES, PHILLIP JOY, AND RYAN THOMPSON

11 Secret desires: contemporary Brazilian masculinities in the era of network relations

RICHARD MISKOLCI, LARISSA PELUCIO, AND LUIZ FELIPE ZAGO