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Barebacking—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 __Unlimited Intimacy__, Tim Dean’s riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it. Audacious 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 __Unlimited Intimacy__ explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus—especially the idea that

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Author

Tim Dean, 1964-

Publisher

The University of Chicago press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226139401

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Anthropology

Rating

3.97 / 5 (149 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14