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For a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the development of viral suppression treatments and preventative pills such as PrEP and nPEP has massively reduced the risk of acquiring HIV. Yet some of the stigma around gay male promiscuity and bareback sex has remained, inhibiting open dialogues about sexual desire, risk, and pleasure. A Pill for Promiscuity brings together academics, artists, and activists—from different generations, countries, ethnic backgrounds, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has changed in a post-PrEP era. Some offer personal perspectives on the value of promiscuity and the sexual communities it fosters, while others critique unequal access to PrEP and the increased role Big Pharma now plays in gay life. With a diverse group of contributors that includes novelist Andrew Holleran, trans scholar Lore/tta LeMaster, cartoonist Steve MacIsaac, and pornographic film director Mister Pam, this book asks provocative questions about how we might reimagine queer sex and sexuality in the 21st century

Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sex Seen: 1968 and Rise of "Public" Sex * -- Part I: Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution -- 1. Rate It X?: Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code -- 2. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) -- 3. The New Sexual Culture of American Television in the 1970s -- Part II: Sex as Art -- 4. Prurient (Dis)Interest: The American Release and Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) -- 5. Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere -- 6. Let the Sweet Juices Flow: WR and Midnight Movie Culture -- Part III: Media at the Margins -- 7. 33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions per Minute -- 8. "I'll Take Sweden": The Shifting Discourse of the "Sexy Nation" in Sexploitation Films -- 9. Altered Sex: Satan, Acid, and the Erotic Threshold -- 10. The "Sexarama": Or Sex Education as an Environmental Multimedia Experience -- 11. San Francisco and the Politics of Hardcore -- 12. Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and the Sexual Revolution -- Part V: Contending with the Sex Scene -- 13. Publicizing Sex through Consumer and Privacy Rights: How the American Civil Liberties Union Liberated Media in the 1960s -- 14. Critics and the Sex Scene -- 15. Porn Goes to College: American Universities, Their Students, and Pornography, 1968-1973 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and television, recorded sound, and publishing—that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world.Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams