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Peek: Inside the Private World of Public Sex
PEEK: Inside the Private World of Public Sex is an up close and personal look at impersonal sex, exploring where-to, how-to, and when-to have sex in public. This educational and instructive guide reveals the steamy world of sex in bathhouses, gyms, parks, peep shows, swinger s clubs, men s rooms, and cruising on the Internet. The book provides interviews of a broad range of men discussing their diverse sexual escapades, from traditional to the definitely nontraditional. PEEK is an essential guide for anyone fascinated with and wanting to find gay sex in the 21st century.
- GenresQueerNonfiction
250 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 28, 2008
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July 22, 2008
In a nutshell: interesting subject matter, craptastic presentation.
One of the most frustrating elements of this book for me was that the tone kept changing from academic & analytical to personal & dirty jokes. It was like the author couldn't decide if he was writing a personal tell-all or a sociological dissertation. Everything from the level of detachment to the vernacular kept waxing and waning from a guy talking about his own locker room exploits and the size of his dick to a detached analysis of a sociological entity - it was headache-inducing.
I think the book would have benefited from a little more transparent structure of the narrative so you'd know what to expect. If each chapter (bathhouses, park cruising, internet hookups, etc.) had a section of academic analysis/background, a section of personal experience/interviews, and, where needed, a section on how-to/dos and don'ts, that would have made it all scan better. Instead each chapter is a hodgepodge of those elements, with some chapters only covering one approach, while others have all three, but never in the same order, etc.
It's also entirely focused on the world of gay men, which would be tolerable if it were stated that way more clearly, but gay guys are not the only ones having public sex, so to portray it as a definitive look at the 'private world of public sex' is pretty exclusionary and incorrect.
Still, there is some fascinating subject matter, and I think it's an overall good thing that this book is out there.
One of the most frustrating elements of this book for me was that the tone kept changing from academic & analytical to personal & dirty jokes. It was like the author couldn't decide if he was writing a personal tell-all or a sociological dissertation. Everything from the level of detachment to the vernacular kept waxing and waning from a guy talking about his own locker room exploits and the size of his dick to a detached analysis of a sociological entity - it was headache-inducing.
I think the book would have benefited from a little more transparent structure of the narrative so you'd know what to expect. If each chapter (bathhouses, park cruising, internet hookups, etc.) had a section of academic analysis/background, a section of personal experience/interviews, and, where needed, a section on how-to/dos and don'ts, that would have made it all scan better. Instead each chapter is a hodgepodge of those elements, with some chapters only covering one approach, while others have all three, but never in the same order, etc.
It's also entirely focused on the world of gay men, which would be tolerable if it were stated that way more clearly, but gay guys are not the only ones having public sex, so to portray it as a definitive look at the 'private world of public sex' is pretty exclusionary and incorrect.
Still, there is some fascinating subject matter, and I think it's an overall good thing that this book is out there.
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