Good Sex, Bad Sex - ripe for the downloading at your favorite podcast

The Feast of Fools, the fiercest gay podcast in the universe, and certainly this blog's absolute fav, has just posted their juiciest and ripest new show - "Good Sex, Bad Sex" - that was recorded live in SurroundSound at the LifeLube, Project CRYSP-produced gay men's health forum on ssssssssSEX that took place at the Center on Halsted April 17.

The forum featured panel experts Dr. David Halperin of the University of Michigan, Dr. Gary Harper of DePaul University and Dr. Michele Morales of Northwestern University, as well as LifeLube’s Jim Pickett and questions/commentary from you, the general public.

Discover some of the inaccurate and damaging psychological concepts that are being used to describe gay men. Are some of the studies being done actually making us sick? What do we all ultimately desire? Can sex be "bad"? Click here to listen or download now. And let us know
what you think.

Click here for post-forum reactions from the speakers and participants captured on LifeLube.


Lipstick the date into your Palms and iPhones for another free LifeLube/Project CRYSP forum during the merry, Mary month of June...

"Driving Tips for Sex on the Superhighway"
Thursday, June 12
Doors open 6pm
Center on Halsted, Chicago

Will you be joining us?
RSVP and more info COMING SOON

LifeLube's sexygoodtime forum gets some... press

Sex forum focuses on what gay men want
Windy City Times - April 23, 2008

Click here for more photos, and for comments on the event.

Click here to listen to the Feast of Fools podcast!

SAVE THE DATE - next forum is June 12 [topic - coming soon!]

Gay Men's Health Forum This Thursday

"Good" Sex, "Bad" Sex - Just What Do Gay Men Want Anyway?

This Thursday, 6p - 9p, at the Center on Halsted in Chicago.

Click here for more info and to RSVP (FREE)

Read the interview with star panelist Dr. David Halperin, author of What Do Gay Men Want? in the Windy City Times. Copies of the book will be available at the event - signed live and in person!

Food and beverage!

The panel also features Dr. Michele Morales (Northwestern) and Dr. Gary Harper (DePaul)

The forum is hosted and moderated by the lovely and talented Feast of Fools.

Yes, this WILL be podcasted....

So - RSVP already! Space is limited. We can't wait to see you there.

Just What Do Gay Men Want Anyway?

Space is limited – RSVP today.

"Good" sex?
"Bad" sex?

Please join LifeLube and Project CRYSP for a dynamic community forum to explore sex, risk, and gay men’s health with Dr. David Halperin, author of What Do Gay Men Want?

The debate features Dr. Gary Harper of DePaul University and Northwestern’s Dr. Michele Morales.

Moderated by the award-winning podcasters Feast of Fools – Marc Felion and Fausto Fernos.

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Center on Halsted
3656 N. Halsted
Light refreshments
Book signing

Please visit LifeLube for more information and to RSVP for this free event.

What kinda sex do YOU want?

How much risk is acceptable?

Click the image to join LifeLube and Project CRYSP for a forum at the Center on Halsted, April 17, to talk about sex and gay men.

“Good” sex? “Bad”sex?

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Just what do gay men want anyway?

On Thursday, April 17, a community forum on gay men’s health featuring author Dr. David Halperin will be held at the Center on Halsted in Chicago.

In addition to Dr. Halperin, panel experts include Dr. Gary Harper of DePaul University and Northwestern’s Dr. Michele Morales. The award-winning Feast of Fools podcasters Fausto Fernos and Marc Felion will host and moderate.

The event begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Irving Harris Family Foundation Reception Hall at the Center on Halsted – 3656 N. Halsted. Light refreshments will be served. A book signing with Dr. Halperin will take place at the conclusion of the forum.

RSVP here.

The lively debate will explore gay men’s relation to sex and risk in the age of barebacking—or condomless sex—and will confront the inaccurate and damaging psychological concepts that are used to describe gay men.

Headliner Dr. Halperin is the author of What Do Gay Men Want?, a provocative essay that exposes the overwrought clichés about gay men’s alleged low self-esteem, lack of self-control, and various psychological “deficits.” Halperin offers a unique, fresh understanding of gay men’s inner lives and challenges the common moral assumptions about “good” and “bad” sex.

“We are living in dangerous times,” says Halperin. “The old rule of ‘use a condom every time’ is losing its force, but new strategies for limiting the spread of HIV infection are still in their infancy, and we have yet to work out another set of communal standards for sexual behavior that balance our desires for pleasure, affirmation, and human contact against the degrees of risk we are collectively willing to accept. We have a lot to talk about.”

RSVP here.

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Download the flyer here.

Hope to see you all there!

We have a lot to talk about...

April 17 - Center on Halsted in Chicago

"Good Sex" , "Bad Sex", Just WHAT Do Gay Men Want?

[second post on this book . lifelube is still reading it - okay, we're a little slow. and we get distracted by shiny objects. but LOVING it nonetheless. a must read for the gays.]


"Compelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn’t waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done—it just does it.”

—Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University

[blurb courtesy of amazon]

How we can talk about sex and risk in the age of barebacking—or condomless sex—without invoking the usual bogus and punitive clichés about gay men’s alleged low self-esteem, lack of self-control, and other psychological “deficits”? Are there queer alternatives to psychology for thinking about the inner life of homosexuality? What Do Gay Men Want? explores some of the possibilities.

Unlike most writers on the topic of gay men and risky sex, David Halperin liberates gay male subjectivity from psychology, demonstrating the insidious ways in which psychology’s defining opposition between the normal and the pathological subjects homosexuality to medical reasoning and revives a whole set of unexamined moral assumptions about “good” sex and “bad” sex.

In particular, Halperin champions neglected traditions of queer thought, including both literary and popular discourses, by drawing on the work of well-known figures like Jean Genet and neglected ones like Marcel Jouhandeau. He shows how the long history of of gay men’s uses of “abjection” can offer an alternative, nonmoralistic model for thinking about gay male subjectivity, something which is urgently needed in the age of barebacking.

Anyone searching for nondisciplinary ways to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS among gay men—or interested in new modes of thinking about gay male subjectivity—should read this book.

David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Professor of English, Professor of Women’s Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.

"What Do Gay Men Want" and more...

LifeLube often sits back with a delicious beverage and enjoys The Center's (NYC) show online. This month's version had us especially interested as it features David Halperin, author of "What Do Gay Men Want" - a book we just started reading (and loving.)

Out at the Center

January Show synopsis

The Center's half-hour show is hosted by Emanuel Xavier and includes New York State Assembly Member Daniel J. O'Donnell speaking on the Marriage Bill; Christian de la Huerta leading a discussion on coming out spiritually; Dr. Florence Gelo presenting at the fourth annual C Word of the Lesbian Cancer Initiative; Ann Bannon and the producers of the Beeber Brinker Chronicles discussing the forthcoming play based on her books; David Halperin sharing thoughts from his book, "What Do Gay Men Want?" and the band Betty.

Click here and check it all out.

A little bit about "What Do Gay Men Want"

Source

Are homosexuals sick? Since gay liberation, the enlightened answer to that question has been a resounding no. But times have changed. Recent efforts to analyze gay men's motives for sexual risk-taking in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic have led to a revival of medical thinking about homosexuality and breathed new life into punitive clichés about gay men's alleged low self-esteem, lack of self-control, and various psychological "deficits." What Do Gay Men Want? offers a different language for describing gay men's inner lives.

Unlike most writers on the topic of barebacking (condomless sex), David Halperin rejects psychology's claim to hold the keys to human subjectivity. He argues that psychology, which is grounded in a highly prejudicial opposition between the normal and the pathological, between healthy and unhealthy behavior, masks a set of dubious moral assumptions about "good" and "bad" sex.

Against these insidious forms of sexual discipline, Halperin champions neglected traditions of queer thought, both literary and popular, that afford fascinating possibilities for addressing the vexed question of what gay men want. In a series of provocative and often moving readings of authors as obscure as Marcel Jouhandeau and as well known as Jean Genet, he shows how the long history of gay men's uses of "abjection" can yield alternative, non-moralistic models for thinking about gay male subjectivity.

The reverberations of this original and bold contribution to queer studies will be felt for years to come. Anyone searching for creative and non-judgmental ways to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS among gay men---or interested in new modes of thinking about gay male subjectivity---should read this book.

David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, Professor of English, Professor of Women's Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.

Read Bloggernista's post on Halperin and a class he is teaching called: 'How to be Gay - Male Homosexuality and Initiation"