Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking

by Tim Dean

Book Overview

Barebacking--when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex--has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for Unlimited Intimacy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226139395
• ISBN13: 9780226139395
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"