Why read Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures?

Book cover of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig

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This book analyses contemporary gay "pig" masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised patterns of recreational drug use, examining how they trouble modern European understandings of the male body, their ethics, and their political underpinnings.

This is the first book to reflect on an increasingly…

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1 author picked Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Marcus McCann

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For me, this book begins with a pleasing reversal: that the tough-looking guys engaged in casual, rough, or extreme types of sexual expression are in fact displaying tenderness.

The book made me reexamine what I thought I knew about the emotions and relationships at work in gay “pig” subcultures. I found myself underlining passage after passage. In the last third of the book, Florêncio becomes a character in the scene he is describing, a risky move that pays off.

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