A Pill for Promiscuity, 9781978824553
Paperback
Gay sex, stigma, and PrEP: reimagining queer desire now.

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  • Paperback

    154 pages

  • Release Date

    9 February 2023

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Summary

For a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the development of viral suppression treatments and preventative pills such as PrEP and nPEP has massively reduced the risk of acquiring HIV. Yet some of the stigma around gay male promiscuity and bareback sex has remained, inhibiting open dialogues about sexual desire, risk, and pleasure.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781978824553
ISBN-10:1978824556
Author:Andrew R. Spieldenner, Jeffrey Escoffier, Andrew Holleran, Daniel Felsenthal, Kane Race, Nicolas Flores, Alex Garner, Steve MacIsaac
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Imprint:Rutgers University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:154
Release Date:9 February 2023
Weight:27g
Dimensions:203mm x 127mm x 13mm
Series:Q+ Public
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“The arrival of PrEP and biomedical prevention helped rescue a public centering of gay men’s desire, pleasure and sex that was becoming marginalized in the fight for same sex marriage. By returning to the all-but-abandoned anthology as a necessary strategy of critical queer community dialogue, A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in the Age of Pharmaceuticals offers a compelling collection of voices on the complicated cultural and political dynamics of sex in the era of PrEP. ” - Kenyon Farrow (Managing Director of Advocacy & Organizing for PrEP4All) “A Pill for Promiscuity is a necessary collection, in a time where pharmaceutical culture and public health are too often narrating proper ideas of sexual practice and sexual intimacy. This volume speaks back to these problematic frames, through a rich offering of diverse voices from multiple genres of writing, which explore the complexity of sexual life in eras of disease.” - Jeffrey McCune (author of Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Polities of Passing)

About The Author

Andrew R. Spieldenner

ANDREW SPIELDENNER is executive director of MPact: Global Action for Gay Rights and associate professor of communication at California State University San Marcos. Openly living with HIV, he writes about LGBTQ community, HIV and disability, serving as co-editor for the collections Intercultural Health Communication and Post-AIDS.

JEFFREY ESCOFFIER (1942-2022) was a research associate and faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He was one of the founders and the publisher of the pioneering LGBTQ journal OUT/LOOK and is author of the books Bigger Than Life, American Homo, and Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography.

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