A Pill for Promiscuity

ANDREW SPIELDENNER is executive director of MPact: Global Action for Gay Rights and associate professor of communication at California State University San Marcos. Openly living with HIV, he writes about LGBTQ community, HIV and disability, serving as co-editor for the collections Intercultural Health Communication and Post-AIDS. JEFFREY ESCOFFIER (1942-2022) was a research associate and faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He was one of the founders and the publisher of the pioneering LGBTQ journal OUT/LOOK and is author of the books Bigger Than Life, American Homo, and Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography (Rutgers University Press).

Introduction to Q+ Public Books by series editors E.G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier 1 Introduction: Why Promiscuity Matters by Andrew Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier 2 Notes on Promiscuity by Andrew Holleran 3 Perspective: Fear 4 Safety by Steve MacIsaac 5 How I Learned to Stop Worrying: Or,The Straight Panic Defense by Daniel Felsenthal 6 Perspective: Sex 7 Reluctant Objects: Sexual Pleasure and HIV Prevention by Kane Race 8 Learning How to Fuck on PrEP by Nicolas "Nic" Flores 9 Gay Sex is Our Superpower by Alex Garner 10 Perspective: Pharma 11 "Heard about it before, but don't know where to get it": A Black Gay Man's Journey to Securing PrEP by Deion Scott Hawkins 12 PrEP in the Porn World by Pam Dore, aka Mr. Pam 13 Auto-Pharmakon: Prescribing Utopia by Addison Vawters 14 Perspective: Trauma and Healing 15 S(t)imulation by Lore/tta LeMaster 16 Playing in the Shadows: Cycles of Trauma by Ariel Sabillon 17 When We Touch: A Reading on Queer Intimacies by Justice Jamal Jones and Andrew Spieldenner with Photographs by Justice Jamal Jones 18 Epilogue: Promiscuity for the Non-Promiscuous by Andrew Spieldenner and Jeffrey Escoffier Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

"The arrival of PrEP and biomedical prevention helped rescue a public centering of gay men's desire, pleasure and sex that was becoming marginalized in the fight for same sex marriage. By returning to the all-but-abandoned anthology as a necessary strategy of critical queer community dialogue, A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in the Age of Pharmaceuticals offers a compelling collection of voices on the complicated cultural and political dynamics of sex in the era of PrEP. " - Kenyon Farrow (Managing Director of Advocacy & Organizing for PrEP4All) "A Pill for Promiscuity is a necessary collection, in a time where pharmaceutical culture and public health are too often narrating proper ideas of sexual practice and sexual intimacy. This volume speaks back to these problematic frames, through a rich offering of diverse voices from multiple genres of writing, which explore the complexity of sexual life in eras of disease." - Jeffrey McCune (author of Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Polities of Passing)