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Ward illustrates that sex between straight white men allows them to leverage whiteness and masculinity to authenticate their heterosexuality in the context of sex with men. By understanding their same-sex sexual practice as meaningless, accidental, or even necessary, straight white men can perform homosexual contact in heterosexual ways. Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men is a book by Jane Ward, [1] in which the author details the phenomenon of straight-identifying white men seeking out sex with other straight-identifying men despite not identifying as gay, bisexual, or bi-curious.

[2][3]. While much attention has been paid to the ways that race and culture crosscut the sex practices of men of color, including and especially straight men of color who have sex with men “on the down low,” the links between whiteness and male sexual fluidity are mostly unacknowledged. When gay boys and men occupy this narrow space, presumably the space of “real” homosexuality, the possibilities for heterosexual engagement with same-sex sexuality expand.

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Sexual Cultures Ser.: Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men by Jane Ward (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!. I now want to write a play, an acedemic essay, and a Queer manifesto out of what this has made me think about. Men of color, on the other hand, quickly fall subject to misrecognized and hypersurveilled categories like 'the down low.

Mostly they use the language of service: usually white men are looking to blow big, muscular black men.

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Where being gay is one tiny, three-letter adjective in a long line of adjectives that barely define who I am. Ward's research suggests she's well on her way to enacting the change she intended with her writing. Kinsey's work, but the spectrum of sexuality is well accepted as an accurate assessment of human sexuality.

That's why you have people who are happily married 'realizing' they're gay later in life, because their identity has shifted. I don't want to appear as a sexist, and I don't actually against a lesbian woman investigating homosexual relationships between straight white men. Suffice to say for now I really enjoyed her push back against the "born this way" naturalization of gay and straight sexual desires.

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The author acknowledges that men are "real people" attracted to "real bodies," and that male sexuality is less fluid then female sexuality, and then proceeds to forget these concessions for the rest of the text. Join the discussion. What about casual, anonymous masturbation in public restrooms? Joel Wall. You work with us! Rate this book. Write a Review. That means, potentially 1 in 6 frat pledges are approaching these hazing rituals having already been sexually assaulted as children.

Ward asserts these men are not bisexual, not closeted gay men, but rather, that heterosexuality may coexist with these behaviors and even encompass them. At the same time, should any of us be defining what is "straight," "gay," and who should be part of that? The book utilizes diverse data, from popular films to personal ads, in order to illustrate its point.

Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! I'm not entirely sure what her point was, but after reading this pile of drite, I can only assume it was to make heterosexual men look bad? While I agree with many that Ward may have inserted herself too forcefully into the book than was necessary, I found it to be intellectually intriguing. Ward speaking about what is "unfathomable to most people" and the heteronormative narrative: "that I signed onto, and cultivated, queerness in my life; that I find both heterosexual and mainstream gay culture distasteful and often pitiable; that my partner and I are not ladies and we don't want our relationship described as beautiful; that if you think you would be happier as a dyke you could and should be one; that I don't want a good public image at least not the kind for which the mainstream gay and lesbian movement is striving ; and that it is precisely because queerness refuses normalization that is meaningful to me and to other queers" Given the amount of homosexual contact involved in heterosexuality, Ward concludes, we need to push back against purely biological accounts and accept the possibility of male sexual fluidity.

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