{"product_id":"unlimited-intimacy-tim-dean-9780226139395","title":"Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarebacking--when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex--has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV\/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for \u003ci\u003eUnlimited Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, Tim Dean's riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAudacious and undeniably provocative, Dean's profoundly reflective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the twenty-first century. Dean's extensive research into the subculture provides a tour of the scene's bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an explicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and documents his own personal experiences in the culture. But ultimately, it is HIV that animates the controversy around barebacking, and \u003ci\u003eUnlimited Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus--especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intimacy without limits--one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite literal--barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, \u003ci\u003eUnlimited Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Dean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226139395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226139395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010","brand":"Tim Dean","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913422078207,"sku":"9780226139395","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9e189118-4116-48a2-bc26-a79ac457a9c8.jpg?v=1680620321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unlimited-intimacy-tim-dean-9780226139395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}