Introduction: Why Promiscuity Matters

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Series Foreword ix
4. Introduction: Why Promiscuity Matters 1
5. 1 Notes on Promiscuity, 1988 13
6. Perspective: Fear
7. Introduction 21
8. 2 Safe 25
9. 3 How I Learned to Stop Worrying, or the Straight Panic Defense 35
10. Perspective: Sex
11. Introduction 43
12. 4. Reluctant Objects: HIV Prevention and the Problem of Sexual Pleasure 47
13. 5 Learning How to Fuck on PrEP 65
14. 6 Gay Sex Is Our Superpower 73
15. Perspective: Pharma
16. Introduction 77
17. 7. “Heard about It Before, but Don’t Know Where to Get It”: A Black Gay Man’s Journey to Securing PrEP 81
18. 8 PrEP in the Porn World 93
19. 9. Auto-Pharmakon: Prescribing Utopia 97
20. Perspective: Trauma and Healing
21. 10. S(t)imulation 103
22. 11. Playing in the Shadows: Cycles of Trauma 111
23. 12. When We Touch: A Reading on Queer Intimacies 117
24. Epilogue: Promiscuity for the Non-Promiscuous 131
25. Acknowledgments 137
26. Notes on Contributors 139
27. Index 141