Dave Holmes

Stuart J. Murray

Thomas Foth

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Cover image -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Opening quotes -- Introduction: RadSex in theory and in practice -- Part I Bareback sex -- 1 Brothers-in-cum: a critical discourse analysis of barebacking rhetoric -- 2 Mediated intimacies: raw sex, Truvada, and the politics of chemoprophylaxis -- 3 "Not only macho-fuckers are barebackers": challenging gender relations among men who have sex with men -- 4 The anatomy of a forbidden desire: men, penetration, and semen exchange -- Part II BDSM practices -- 5 BDSM, sexual subcultures, and the ethics of public health discourse -- 6 Degenitalizing the sexual: BDSM practices and the deterritorialization of bodies and pleasures -- 7 Fucking with fluids and wet with desire: power and humiliation using cum, piss, and blood -- Part III Public sex -- 8 Transgressive assemblages: an ethnography of gay group sex -- 9 Faceless sex: glory holes and sexual assemblages -- 10 Profiling public sex: how Grindr revolutionized the face of gay cruising -- 11 Secret desires: contemporary Brazilian masculinities in the era of network relations -- Index

Assembling Desiring-machines

Radical Sex Between Men

Under the Nazi regime in Germany a calculated killing of chronic "mentally ill" patients took place. Nurses executed this program in their everyday practice. However, suspicions have been raised that psychiatric patients were also assassinated before and after the Nazi regime, suggesting that the motives for these killings must be investigated within psychiatric practice itself. This book highlights the mechanisms and scientific discourses in place that allowed nurses to perceive patients as unworthy of life. This study analyzes patient records as "inscriptions" that actively intervene in interactions in institutions and that create a specific reality on their own accord. The question is not whether the reality represented within the documents is true, but rather how documents worked in institutions and what their effects were. It is shown how nurses were actively involved in the construction of patients' identities and how these "documentary identities" led to the death of thousands of humans.

Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931-1943

Caring and Killing

Bringing together theory and public health practice, this interdisciplinary collection analyses three forms of nonconventional or radical sexualities: bareback sex, BDSM practices, and public sex. Drawing together the latest empirical research from Brazil, Canada, Spain, and the USA, it mobilizes queer theory and poststructuralism, engaging the work of theorists such as Bataille, Butler, Deleuze and Guattari, and Foucault, among others. While the collection contributes to current research in gender and sexuality studies, it does so distinctly in the context of empirical investigations and discourses on critical public health. Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines will be of interest to advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers in gender and sexuality studies, sexology, social work, anthropology, and sociology, as well as practitioners in nursing, medicine, allied health professions, and psychology.

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