Male to Male

<p>Explore the feelings of men toward other men without the pigeonholing found in terms like “gay” and “straight”!Male to Male: Sexual Feeling Across the Boundaries of Identity starts with the evidence that most studies on male sexuality have ignored--the same-sex feelings of men whose identities are heterosexual. Of the more than fifty men in this book almost half were aware of some degree of same-sex feeling. But beyond percentages the primary focus of Male to Male is the exploration--through their own words--of how these men experienced same-sex feelings what these feelings meant to them the fears surrounding them and the consequences of the collision between their heterosexual identities and their same-sex feelings.In addition to comparative data on women's same-sex feelings as well as on what men say in regard to their feelings about women Male to Male includes material from two in-depth case studies. The first is on Clark an African-American man who moved into sex with men in prison. His story shows that the need to see gay men as feminine is really a cultural defense against the powerful pull toward the male-to-male bond and points to the movement to fulfill that bond when this defense is dropped. The second is on Zack a gay police officer. His story explores the different dimensions and meanings of the male-to-male bond as these unfolded in his own life while telling about the heterosexually identified men who “came out” to him about their own same-sex feelings. Male to Male will help you explore:</p><ul> <li> same-sex feelings in heterosexual men and women </li> <li> same-sex feelings in the military </li> <li> prison culture and the “heterosexual role” </li> <li> the fear of domination </li> <li> the aesthetics of fear and power </li> <li> the dynamics of rape </li> <li> compassionate relationships between heterosexual-identified men . . . and much more!</li> </ul><p>Male to Male provides evidence showing that the identity that really counts--constituting the deepest source from which men's sexual feelings for each other spring--is not specifically a gay or heterosexual identity. That source is rather a male identity and--beyond that--a human identity.</p>