NOT GAY: SEX BETWEEN STRAIGHT WHITE MEN

New York City, NY: New York University Press, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: New York University Press, 2015. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 240 pages. Book-length account on subject. The single best book on one of the most revealing "open secrets" of mainstream American culture. The First Hardcover "University" Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition, particularly the Softcover. Published in a one-time-only print run as a hardcover original for public libraries and academic institutions only. None of the copies was commercially sold. The First Hardcover "University" Edition is now rare. It is elegantly produced, with gray cloth boards, metallic-silver titles on the spine, and is printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Jane Ward's "Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men". A seminal study on the real score. "Thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: There's fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other's penises and stick fingers up their fellow members' anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with, and the long and clandestine history of straight white men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men. To do so reaffirms - rather than challenges - their gender and racial identity" (Publisher's blurb). Ward's intricately argued book represents a ground-breaking way to think about heterosexuality not as the opposite of (and disgust about) homosexuality, but as providing a unique mode of engaging in homosexual sex without ever being implicated as gay. Because one isn't, very few men are gay. Gay is a cultural construct, not natural law. Despite what gay militants say, behavior does NOT define identity. Nevertheless, Gay is probably the ultimate Other, more so and more threatening than Bi, Trans, Non-Binary, or Queer, because Gay is The Other that is too close for comfort. This explains why homosexual sex can only be experienced by straight men indirectly, as a strictly defined behavioral mode, characterized, among other things, by "top-versus-bottom" role play (only gay men willingly "bottom"). The greatest fear straights, who are, by definition, "top", have about sex with gay men is sodomy rather than what it might say about their gender or sexual identity. Indirect-ness is also why full-fledged gay novels, films, and art will never be patronized by straight men. Jane Ward captures the complexity of sexuality in a way that the binary modes of "hetero"/straight and "homo"/gay evade. An absolute "must-have" title for Jane Ward collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover "University" Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition online. Published in a one-time-only print run as a hardcover original for public libraries and academic institutions only. None of the copies was commercially sold. It is elegantly produced, with gray cloth boards, metallic-silver titles on the spine, and printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. A rare copy thus. One of the most brilliant American social theorists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1479860689.