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Ward, Jane : Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men

New York University Press, New York City, NY, 2015

ISBN 1479860689

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 240 pages. Book-length account on subject. The single best book on one of the most revealing "open secrets" of mainstream American culture. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original for public libraries and academic institutions, and as part of NYU's "Sexual Cultures" Series. The First Edition is now scarce. It is elegantly produced, with gray cloth boards, metallic-silver titles on the spine, and printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Jane Ward's "Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men". A seminal study on the "real score". "Can straight white guys experience sexual fluidity or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? 'Not Gay' thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: There's fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other's penises and stick fingers up their fellow members' anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight white men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men. These sexual practices reveal a unique social space, where straight white men can and do have sex with other straight white men. To do so reaffirms - rather than challenges - their gender and racial identity" (Publisher's blurb). Ward's intricately argued book represents a ground-breaking way to think about heterosexuality not as the opposite or absence of (and disgust about) homosexuality, but as a unique mode of engaging in homosexual sex without ever being implicated as gay. Because one isn't, very few men are gay. Gay is a cultural construct, not natural law, and despite what gay militants say, behavior does NOT define identity. Nevertheless, Gay is probably the ultimate Other, more so than Bi or Trans, because Gay is The Other that is too close for comfort. This explains why homosexual sex can only be experienced by straight men indirectly, as a strictly defined behavioral mode, characterized, among other things, by "top-versus-bottom" role play (only gay men willingly "bottom"). The greatest fear straights, who are necessarily "top", have about sex with gay men is sodomy rather than what it might say about their gender or sexual identity. Indirect-ness is also why full-fledged gay novels, films, and art will never be patronized by straight men. "Not Gay" captures the complexity of human sexuality in a way that the binary modes of "hetero"/straight and "homo"/gay cannot. An absolute "must-have" title for Jane Ward collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition, which is a softcover original only. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant American social theorists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1479860689.

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