UPC: 9781560239765 | Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies: Male to Male: Sexual Feelings Across the Boundaries of Identity (Paperback)

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Explore the feelings of men toward other men without the pigeonholing found in terms like gay and straight !Male to Male: Sexual Feeling Across the Boundaries of Identity starts with the evidence that most studies on male sexuality have ignored–the same-sex feelings of men whose identities are heterosexual. Of the more than fifty men in this book almost half were aware of some degree of same-sex feeling. But beyond percentages the primary focus of Male to Male is the exploration–through their own words–of how these men experienced same-sex feelings what these feelings meant to them the fears surrounding them and the consequences of the collision between their heterosexual identities and their same-sex feelings.In addition to comparative data on women s same-sex feelings as well as on what men say in regard to their feelings about women Male to Male includes material from two in-depth case studies. The first is on Clark an African-American man who moved into sex with men in prison. His story shows that the need to see gay men as feminine is really a cultural defense against the powerful pull toward the male-to-male bond and points to the movement to fulfill that bond when this defense is dropped. The second is on Zack a gay police officer. His story explores the different dimensions and meanings of the male-to-male bond as these unfolded in his own life while telling about the heterosexually identified men who came out to him about their own same-sex feelings. Male to Male will help you explore: same-sex feelings in heterosexual men and women same-sex feelings in the military prison culture and the heterosexual role the fear of domination the aesthetics of fear and power the dynamics of rape compassionate relationships between heterosexual-identified men . . . and much more! Male to Male provides evidence showing that the identity that really counts–constituting the deepest source from which men s sexual feelings for each other spring–is not specifically a gay or heterosexual identity. That source is rather a male identity and–beyond that–a human identity.