Status Updates From Not Gay: Sex Between Straig...

reading for book club. kinda hate it so far

"hazing [...] a function of the culture of masculinity more broadly, which trains men to desire to degrade others, on the other hand, and to be validated by enduring degradation on the other. [... or] a way for them to reassure themselves that they belong to a group so worthy that the other guys are willing to suffer just to join them."

« Without a clear circumstantial justification for their homosexuality, a circumstance that could explain why they would act out of accordance with hetero-masculinity, the guards are imagined to have “gone wild.” »

i’m sorry…… the ELEPHANT WALK?????

I just don’t know if an introduction should be 25% of a book?

the "gay movement has largely succeeded in linking gay pride and gay rights with adherence to sociobiological narratives, and conversely, and perhaps unintentionally, it has also succeeded in equating more fluid and/or queer accounts of sexual desire with homophobia and collusion with the religious rights."
Does this mean that gay liberation directly caused a dismissal of fluidity of sexuality, and forced the binary?

“Popular discourses about sexual desire […] focus largely on whether homosexual activity is either ‘chosen’ or ‘biological’”