The Soul Beneath the Skin The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men

by Nimmons, David

• ISBN13: 9780312320409
• ISBN10: 031232040X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Among the most acclaimed books on the gay male experience, "The Soul Beneath the Skin" explores the wide variety of social and ethical experiments in gay men's lives, and their implications both for gay men and society at large. David Nimmons radically reinterprets gay men's sexuality, intimate relationships and ethics by looking at seven patterns of behavior widely practiced by gay men but rarely acknowledged: non-violent public culture; high rates of altruism, service, and volunteerism; robust sexual caretaking; friendship patterns of diffuse intimacies; friendship with women; diverse forms of sexual union; and unique forms of bliss and pleasure seeking. These social innovations, striking similar to the teachings of the great spiritual traditions, suggest a new and profound public ethics, a stirringly optimistic vision of a social revolution as radical as it is unnoticed.

Author Biography

Dave Nimmons, founder of Manifest Love, has been a gay leader in New York since 1983. He served as President of New York's Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center for six years, for three years directed HIV prevention and education at Gay Men's Health Crisis, and is an internationally-known HIV prevention theorist.

Table of Contents

Unseen Hearts and Habits	p. 1
Our Peaceable Kingdom	p. 13
Communities of Caring	p. 40
Dogs, Pigs, and Altruists	p. 56
Alive and Well in Sexual Madagascar	p. 77
Permissible Intimacies	p. 112
Unlikely Bedfellows: The Love of Gay Men and Straight Women	p. 141
A Flagrant Joy: Outlaws in Search of Bliss	p. 154
Mind the Gap: When Private Hearts and Public Habits Collide	p. 187
Men for a New Millennium	p. 212
Reader's Note on Nomenclature for the Theoretically Inclined	p. 221
Notes	p. 225
Index	p. 249
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