Vulgar genres : gay pornographic writing and contemporary fiction

**__Vulgar Genres__ examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre’s relation to queer male erotic life.** Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length study of gay pornographic __writing__. Steven Ruszczycky delivers with an impressively researched work on the ways gay pornographic writing emerged as a distinct genre in the 1960s and went on to shape queer male subjectivity well into the new millennium. ​Ranging over four decades, Ruszczycky draws on a large archive of pulp novels and short fiction, lifestyle magazines and journals, reviews, editorial statements, and correspondence. He puts these materials in conversation with works by a number of contemporary writers, including William Carney, Dennis Cooper, Samuel Delany, John Rechy, and Matthew Stadler. While focused on the years 1966 to 2005, __Vulgar Genres__ reveals that the history of gay pornographic writing during this period informs much of what has happened online over the past twenty years, from cruising to the production of digital pornographic texts. The result is a milestone in porn studies and an important contribution to the history of gay life. Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life.0 Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length study of gay pornographic writing. Steven Ruszczycky delivers with an impressively researched work on the ways gay pornographic writing emerged as a distinct genre in the 1960s and went on to shape queer male subjectivity well into the new millennium.0 Ranging over four decades, Ruszczycky draws on a large archive of pulp novels and short fiction, lifestyle magazines and journals, reviews, editorial statements, and correspondence. He puts these materials in conversation with works by a number of contemporary writers, including William Carney, Dennis Cooper, Samuel Delany, John Rechy, and Matthew Stadler. While focused on the years 1966 to 2005, Vulgar Genres reveals that the history of gay pornographic writing during this period informs much of what has happened online over the past twenty years, from cruising to the production of digital pornographic texts. The result is a milestone in porn studies and an important contribution to the history of gay life "Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length study of gay pornographic writing. Steven Ruszczycky delivers with an impressively researched work on the ways gay pornographic writing emerged as a distinct genre in the 1960s and went on to shape queer male subjectivity well into the new millennium. Ranging over four decades, Ruszczycky draws on a large archive of pulp novels and short fiction, lifestyle magazines and journals, reviews, editorial statements, and correspondence. He puts these materials in conversation with works by a number of contemporary writers, including William Carney, Dennis Cooper, Samuel Delany, John Rechy, and Matthew Stadler, and shows that this literary fiction was both informed by gay pornographic writing and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life. While focused on the years 1966 to 2005, Vulgar Genres reveals that the history of gay pornographic writing during this period informs much of what has happened online over the past twenty years, from cruising to the production of digital pornographic texts. The result is a milestone in porn studies and an important contribution to the history of gay life"-- Provided by publisher Introduction -- William Carney And The Leathermen : Revaluing Bdsm In The Pornographic Counterpublics Of The 1970s -- Police Cruisers : John Rechy And Samuel Steward Take On The Hot Cop -- Samuel Delany, Scott O'hara, And The Counterpublic Of Sleazehounds : On The Risks Of Public Sex In Aids-era Pornography -- Boy Problems : Boyd Mcdonald's Straight To Hell, Matthew Stadler's Allan Stein, And The Becoming Historical Of Intergenerational Intimacy -- Conclusion. Going Online : Dennis Cooper And The Piglets. Steven Ruszczycky. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ipswich, Ma Available Via World Wide Web. Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Introduction 10 Chapter 1. William Carney and the Leathermen: Revaluing BDSM in the Pornographic Counterpublics of the 1970s 34 Chapter 2. Police Cruisers: John Rechy and Samuel Steward Take on the Hot Cop 62 Chapter 3. Samuel Delany, Scott O’Hara, and the Counterpublic of Sleazehounds: On the Risks of Public Sex in AIDS-Era Pornography 88 Chapter 4. Boy Problems: Boyd McDonald’s Straight to Hell, Matthew Stadler’s Allan Stein, and the Becoming Historical of Intergenerational Intimacy 116 Conclusion. Going Online: Dennis Cooper and the Piglets 146 Acknowledgments 170 Notes 174 Bibliography 194 Index 208