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PLEASE COPY, POST AND DISTRIBUTE FREELY
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT AND UPCOMING READINGS
Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation
Kerwin Kay, editor; Jill Nagle and Baruch Gould, associate editors
Release date: April 20th, 2000, Haworth Press, Inc.
<http://www.mlust.com/>
Male Lust is a groundbreaking collection of nearly 60 personal
essays, memoirs, stories, commentaries, and poems about men's diverse
experiences with sex. While images of men pursuing sex abound, they
typically duplicate one or two well-worn stereotypes, leaving little
room for creativity, spontaneity or novelty in the fashioning a
sexual self. Further, little information exists outside those
stereotypes about the range of men's feelings, beliefs and practices
regarding sex, sexuality and lust. In the past twenty years, women
have produced a large amount of literature and erotica that breaks
old molds and offers new ways of approaching their own
sexuality. Male Lust continues this tradition of unearthing new
erotic ground, with men writing about their own experience and ideas
for transforming and reweaving male lust, love and politics.
From a wide variety of perspectives, the authors of Male Lust
grapple with fear and shame, share successes and celebrations,
recount journeys of healing from abuse, and blaze new trails of
self-love and discovery. Their topics include male sexual
frustration and anger, sex and disability, producing and purchasing
commercial sex, the impact of white supremacy on male lust, cruising
for sex, exploring S/M, the fusion of sex with spirituality, and
more. Contributors are heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and
transgendered men, along with a few women. They write from various
ethnic backgrounds and perspectives. Together, they break the noisy
silence surrounding male lust, challenge the dominant images of men
as unemotional sexual predators, and expose the live, beating hearts,
minds and souls of real men loving, healing and revealing themselves.
HEAR THE AUTHORS!
Readings are presently being arranged in several cities in the U.S.
The present schedule of readings is as follows:
April 25th, 2000; 7:30 PM
A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco
featuring: Kerwin Kay, James Green, Emil Keliane,
Simon Sheppard, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Sandip Roy,
David Steinberg, and John Ward
(More readings in the S.F. Bay area to be announced)
mid-August
Washington D.C. (location to be announced)
mid-August
New York City (location to be announced)
end of August
Denver, CO (location to be announced)
end of August
Boulder, CO (location to be announced)
If you wish to be informed as future readings are finalized, contact
Kerwin Kay at <[log in to unmask]>.
Advance praise for Male Lust:
"Goes beyond the cliches, and even beyond the alternative cliches, to break
new ground."
--Shere Hite, author of The Hite Report on Male Sexuality
"A fascinating chorus of voices testifying about the permutations of desire
in men's lives. Kay has been surprisingly successful in getting an awesome
range of men to speak, with great intelligence and feeling, about this
personal subject" --
--Pat Califia, author of Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex
"A wondrous look into the hearts and minds, groins and souls, of the
American male psyche."
--Michael Bronski, author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility
"[These] stories encourage us to heal the connection between our genitals
and our hearts."
--Joseph Kramer, EroSpirit Research Institute, Oakland CA
Contributors:
Contributors include Michael Kimmel (editor of Men Confront
Pornography), Robert Goss (Jesus ACTED UP), Carol Queen (Real Live
Nude Girl), John Stoltenberg (The End of Manhood), Tim Beneke (Men on
Rape), David Steinberg (Erotic by Nature, editor of The Erotic
Impulse), Sy Safransky (editor of the literary journal The Sun),
performance artist Frank Moore, James Green (president of FtM
International), Lawrence Schimel (co-editor of Switch Hitters and
PoMoSexuals, both with Carol Queen), Justin Chin (Bite Hard), Cleo
Manago (founder/president of AMASSI in Los Angeles), and actor/drag
queen/porn star Geoffrey Karen Dior. For a complete list of
contributors and a description of their writing, visit our website at
<www.mlust.com>.
Editors:
Kerwin Kay is a freelance writer and activist. He has had articles
published in Z Magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Anything
That Moves,among others. During the past nine years, he has been
active in anti-racist, anti-imperialist, feminist, men's movement,
and bisexual/queer politics. In 1988 he organized the first Rocky
Mountain Men's Conference in Boulder, CO. Kerwin has also
participated in men's discussion and ritual groups for over six
years. His work experience includes jobs at strip clubs and porn
shops, and most recently he has become active in the movement to
decriminalize prostitution. Kerwin lives in San Francisco where he
spends much of his time in the company of sex workers, porn writers,
queer activists and other friendly folks of various stripes. Kerwin
is currently a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology at San
Francisco State University where his thesis work focuses upon male
street prostitutes and the agencies that serve them.
Jill Nagle edited Whores and Other Feminists (Routledge, 1997). Her
work has appeared in a number of anthologies including Best Lesbian
Erotica 2000, Best Bisexual Erotica and First Person Sexual, as well
as in several periodicals such as American Book Review, On Our Backs
and Girlfriends. You can visit Jill's website at
<http://www.jillnagle.com/>.
Baruch Gould lives in San Francisco. He has been an AIDS and queer
activist; is the father of three children; and has had an abiding
experiential interest in the issue of sexuality as spirituality and
vice versa. Baruch holds a Master of Divinity degree from a
prestigious Ivy League university, is a student of Jungian
psychology, a practitioner of the art of divination, a creator of
wearable art, and an ardent lover of life. Baruch is currently
involved in writing his memoirs.
Interested in writing a review? For information on how to receive a
review copy of Male Lust, please contact Niki Escott via email at
<[log in to unmask]> or at 1-800-HAWORTH (1-800-429-6784).
You can read more about Male Lust, including the introduction and an
interview with the editor, at <http://www.mlust.com/>. For further
information or for media-related queries, please contact Kerwin Kay
at <[log in to unmask]>.
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<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">PRESS
RELEASE</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">PLEASE COPY, POST
AND DISTRIBUTE FREELY</font><font color="#000000"><br>
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<font face="Courier" size="+1">BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT AND UPCOMING
READINGS</font></font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Courier" size="+1"><u>Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and
Transformation</u></font></font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Courier" size="+1">Kerwin Kay, editor; Jill Nagle and
Baruch Gould, associate editors</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">Release date:
April 20th, 2000, Haworth Press, Inc.</font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Courier"
size="+1"><http://www.mlust.com/></font></font><br>
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<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><u>Male Lust</u>
is a groundbreaking collection of nearly 60 personal essays, memoirs,
stories, commentaries, and poems about men's diverse experiences with
sex. While images of men pursuing sex abound, they typically
duplicate one or two well-worn stereotypes, leaving little room for
creativity, spontaneity or novelty in the fashioning a sexual
self. Further, little information exists outside those
stereotypes about the range of men's feelings, beliefs and practices
regarding sex, sexuality and lust. In the past twenty years,
women have produced a large amount of literature and erotica that
breaks old molds and offers new ways of approaching their own
sexuality. <u>Male Lust</u> continues this tradition of
unearthing new erotic ground, with men writing about their own
experience and ideas for transforming and reweaving male lust, love
and politics.</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">From a wide
variety of perspectives, the authors of <u> Male Lust</u>
grapple with fear and shame, share successes and celebrations,
recount journeys of healing from abuse, and blaze new trails of
self-love and discovery. Their topics include male sexual
frustration and anger, sex and disability, producing and purchasing
commercial sex, the impact of white supremacy on male lust, cruising
for sex, exploring S/M, the fusion of sex with spirituality, and
more. Contributors are heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and
transgendered men, along with a few women. They write from
various ethnic backgrounds and perspectives. Together, they
break the noisy silence surrounding male lust, challenge the dominant
images of men as unemotional sexual predators, and expose the live,
beating hearts, minds and souls of real men loving, healing and
revealing themselves.</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
<br>
<br>
</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">HEAR THE
AUTHORS!</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">Readings are
presently being arranged in several cities in the U.S. The present
schedule of readings is as follows:</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><b>April 25th, 2000; 7:30 PM</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
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</x-tab>A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, San
Francisco</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"
size="+1"><b><x-tab>
</x-tab></b>featuring: Kerwin Kay, James Green, Emil
Keliane,</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"
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</x-tab>Simon Sheppard, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Sandip Roy,</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier"
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</x-tab>David Steinberg, and John Ward</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>(More readings in the S.F. Bay area to be announced)<br>
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>mid-August</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>Washington D.C. (location to be announced)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
<x-tab>
</x-tab>mid-August</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>New York City (location to be announced)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>end of
August</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>Denver, CO (location to be announced)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>end of
August</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab>Boulder, CO (location to be announced)</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">If you wish to be
informed as future readings are finalized, contact Kerwin Kay at
<[log in to unmask]>.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">Advance praise
for <u>Male Lust</u>:</font><font face="Courier"
color="#000000"><br>
<font size="+1"><br>
"Goes beyond the cliches, and even beyond the alternative
cliches, to break</font><br>
<font size="+1">new ground."</font><br>
<font size="+1"> --Shere Hite, author of <u> The Hite
Report on Male Sexuality</u></font><br>
<font size="+1"><br>
"A fascinating chorus of voices testifying about the
permutations of desire<br>
in men's lives. Kay has been surprisingly successful in getting an
awesome<br>
range of men to speak, with great intelligence and feeling, about
this</font><br>
<font size="+1">personal subject"</font> --<br>
--<font size="+1">Pat Califia, author of <u> Public Sex:
The Culture of Radical Sex</u></font><br>
<font size="+1"><br>
"A wondrous look into the hearts and minds, groins and souls, of
the</font><br>
<font size="+1">American male psyche."</font><br>
<font size="+1"> --Michael Bronski, author of <u> Culture
Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility</u></font><br>
<font size="+1"><br>
"[These] stories encourage us to heal the connection between our
genitals</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">and our
hearts."</font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Courier" size="+1"> --Joseph Kramer, EroSpirit
Research Institute, Oakland CA</font></font><br>
</div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
<br>
</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"
color="#000000">Contributors:</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">Contributors
include<b> Michael Kimmel</b> (editor of <u> Men Confront
Pornography</u>),<b> Robert Goss</b> (<u>Jesus ACTED UP</u>),<b>
Carol Queen</b> (<u>Real Live Nude Girl</u>),<b> John Stoltenberg</b>
(<u>The End of Manhood</u>),<b> Tim Beneke</b> (<u>Men on
Rape</u>),<b> David Steinberg</b> (<u>Erotic by Nature</u>, editor
of <u>The Erotic Impulse</u>),<b> Sy Safransky</b> (editor of
the literary journal <u> The Sun</u>), performance artist<b>
Frank Moore</b>,<b> James Green</b> (president of FtM
International),<b> Lawrence Schimel</b> (co-editor of <u> Switch
Hitters</u> and <u> PoMoSexuals</u>, both with Carol Queen),<b>
Justin Chin</b> (<u>Bite Hard</u>),<b> Cleo Manago</b>
(founder/president of AMASSI in Los Angeles), and actor/drag
queen/porn star<b> Geoffrey Karen Dior</b>. For a complete list of
contributors and a description of their writing, visit our website at
<www.mlust.com>.</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><br>
<br>
Editors:</font><font color="#000000"><br>
<font face="Courier" size="+1"><b>Kerwin Kay</b> is a freelance
writer and activist. He has had articles published in<i> Z
Magazine,</i> the<i> San Francisco Bay Guardian,</i> and<i> Anything
That Moves,</i>among others. During the past nine years, he has been
active in anti-racist, anti-imperialist, feminist, men's movement,
and bisexual/queer politics. In 1988 he organized the first Rocky
Mountain Men's Conference in Boulder, CO. Kerwin has also
participated in men's discussion and ritual groups for over six
years. His work experience includes jobs at strip clubs and porn
shops, and most recently he has become active in the movement to
decriminalize prostitution. Kerwin lives in San Francisco where he
spends much of his time in the company of sex workers, porn writers,
queer activists and other friendly folks of various stripes. Kerwin
is currently a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology at San
Francisco State University where his thesis work focuses upon male
street prostitutes and the agencies that serve
them.</font></font><font color="#000000"><br>
<br>
<font face="Courier" size="+1"><b>Jill Nagle</b> edited <u>
Whores and Other Feminists</u> (Routledge, 1997). Her work has
appeared in a number of anthologies including <u>Best Lesbian
Erotica 2000</u>, <u>Best Bisexual Erotica</u> and <u>
First Person Sexual</u>, as well as in several periodicals such as<i>
American Book Review</i>,<i> On Our Backs</i> and<i> Girlfriends</i>.
You can visit Jill's website at
<http://www.jillnagle.com/>.</font></font><br>
</div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Baruch
Gould</b> lives in San Francisco. He has been an AIDS and queer
activist; is the father of three children; and has had an abiding
experiential interest in the issue of sexuality as spirituality and
vice versa. Baruch holds a Master of Divinity degree from a
prestigious Ivy League university, is a student of Jungian
psychology, a practitioner of the art of divination, a creator of
wearable art, and an ardent lover of life. Baruch is currently
involved in writing his memoirs.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1">Interested in writing a review?
For information on how to receive a review copy of <u> Male
Lust</u>, please contact Niki Escott via email at
<[log in to unmask]> or<font color="#000000"> at
1-800-HAWORTH (1-800-429-6784).</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Courier" size="+1" color="#000000">You can read more
about <u>Male Lust</u>, including the introduction and an
interview with the editor, at <http://www.mlust.com/>. For
further information or for media-related queries, please contact
Kerwin Kay at <[log in to unmask]>.</font></div>
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