{"product_id":"queer-pleasure-without-apology-9798855802771","title":"Queer Pleasure Without Apology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApproaches stigmatized sex with candor and curiosity, interweaving experience and analysis to better appreciate the intricacies and intrigue of queer desires and pleasures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueer theorists have long defended stigmatized sexual desires and behaviors by demonstrating how they are either fundamentally harmless or have some higher political, psychological, or social value. While such defenses may be useful in combatting homophobia, the mandate that sex be either benign or virtuous has impeded our ability to apprehend the nuance and variety of the things that turn us on and get us off. \u003ci\u003eQueer Pleasure Without Apology\u003c\/i\u003e refuses this mandate, approaching stigmatized sex with curiosity rather than judgment. Greg Goldberg examines his own \"bad\" desires and behaviors-from anonymous sex to fetishization to playing games-to show how critics keep getting them wrong. Heady and humorous, \u003ci\u003eQueer Pleasure Without Apology\u003c\/i\u003e challenges us to think about sex in a way that is as playful and perplexing as sex itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreg Goldberg \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAntisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298585149714,"sku":"9798855802771","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eec5d25e-f07c-482e-b1c1-271ee90c7078.jpg?v=1747828459","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/queer-pleasure-without-apology-9798855802771","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}