Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking Kindle Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0226139395
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  • File Size: 2911 KB
  • Print Length: 256 pages
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press (August 1, 2009)
  • Publication Date: August 1, 2009
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  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00378KQJW
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4.0 out of 5 starsInteresting and well written
By Tim H on May 14, 2011
Format: Paperback
This book is a (beautifully written) exploration of some of the meanings that characterize barebacking culture. I especially enjoyed the analysis of barebacking porn, where Dean manages to interpret and probe some of the more obscure representation and desires that animate this genre. Dean is largely non-judgemental of this subculture, which is so refreshing, and he manages to explore some things that empirical HIV social science generally won't go near or touch, just because people aren't quite as articulate in qualitative interviews as their unconscious is imaginative. At the same time, I feel like Dean is occasionally at risk of collapsing the meanings surrounding unprotected sex into a coherent, unitary set of meanings, when surely there are a whole range of reasons for the practice in different contexts, not all of them about building some sort of non-normative gay brotherhood! The latter interpretation sure is imaginative, but as much a fantasy sustained by the author's readings as anything actually 'there' in the subculture. I really enjoyed the read anyhow.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"A Mind-Thinking Expose"
By Terrance Richard on March 28, 2012
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Tim Dean has wriiten a fascinating account of one of the most controversial issues of all-time in the gay community: that of barebacking where men choose not to wear condoms while engaging in anal sex. Written with insightfulness, delicacy and sheer knowledge of the subjext Dean doesn't point fingers or state that gay men should be ashamed of performing such an act, but offers the reasons why barebacking has become all the rage since the late nineties even while a deadly disease still larks around the corner.

Dean probes into how barebacking started around 1997 when the first round of AIDS coctails started and perhaps that is why so many of us decided to forgo condom use. He also writes about condom fatigue and how we as a culture simply became tired of using protection and that no one was going to tell us how to have sex. He mentions how it is so important for many us us to feel that closeness to our lovers and not to have that "barrier" there and how bareback pornography, starting in 2001, really was a proponent that led many gays into the world of bareback sex.

Thought-provoking, yet controversial, I enjoyed "Ultimate Intimacy" to the fullest.
Simply a well-wriiten work on still a very touchy topic.
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5.0 out of 5 starsfascinating
By ski bum on September 25, 2010
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Tim Dean's "Unlimited Intimacy" is a fascinating and provocative piece of work. It is disturbing but asks the reader to reflect on one's disturbance with a Foucaldian sensibility, i.e. to reflect on how regulatory systems create what disturbs us. Maintaining a balancing act between trying to look at barebacking from inside the subculture, without passing judgement either for or against, he challenges the reader to traverse both the unconscious and subversive thrusts of barebacking culture to create a sexual kinship system that takes back male homosexuality from the effects of AIDS, and the cultural imperative to avoid risk, especially health risks, despite the cost of sacrificing one's relationship to pleasure. It also is an encyclopedic reference book on multiple aspects of contemporary gay culture.
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4.0 out of 5 starsAn insider's view into one of the most controversial topics in health and sexuality
By Reidar Staupe on September 11, 2014
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Honest and real introduction to one of the most controversial subcultures known to sexology scholars. The book provides an inside view of perhaps the most shocking phenomenon in gay culture, barebacking and bug chasing. The book's greatest strength is its unacademic nature, in essence the book presents a participants view of the barebacking culture, motivations for risk, lust and the fear of HIV yet the psychology of not protecting oneself against it, or even chasing it.
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2.0 out of 5 stars... I was told by several people it would be useful in talking about the dynamics of barebacking
By Christopher Clift on November 29, 2014
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I was using this as a reference in a thesis paper as I was told by several people it would be useful in talking about the dynamics of barebacking. While I did find some of the conversation of barebacking to be useful the book, especially its later parts, were extremely problematic and rather that address that Dean limits himself by ending any kind of conversation about ethics with "well this book isn't suppose to be politically correct." What I saw as by far the worst section of the book was his discussion of porn that erotizes race difference by dismissing black authors who say it is racist and instead Dean claims it is actually antiracist because it simply points out a history of racism. I feel that Dean often reached and read queerness and subversiveness into events to support his own claims and ignored how many of those events worked under late capitalism, consumerism, and white supremacy. Stick to reading chapter one, that is about all that is useful in this.
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