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By Steven Zeeland

In Sailors and Sexual id, writer Steven Zeeland talks with younger male sailors--both homosexual- and straight-identified--about ways that their social and sexual lives were formed by means of their army careers.

Despite sizeable media consciousness to the difficulty, there continues to be a gross disparity among the general public conception of “gays within the army” and the sexual realities of army existence. The conversations during this booklet exhibit how recognized “gay” and “straight” males can and do get alongside within the sexually demanding confines of barracks and shipboard lifestyles when they become aware of that the imagined boundary among them isn't really, in reality, a difficult line.

The tales acknowledged right here in shiny element name into query the imagined obstacles among homosexual and immediately, gay and homosocial, and recommend a mystery Pentagon motivation for the homosexual ban: to guard homoerotic army rituals, blood brother love, and covert army homosexuality from the taint of sexual suspicion.

Zeeland’s interviews discover many points of up to date existence within the army including:

  • gay/straight friendship networks
  • the sexual cost to the Navy/Marine Corps rivalry
  • the fact at the back of sailors’reputations as sexual adventurers in port and at sea
  • men’s differing interpretations of homoerotic army rituals and initiations
  • sex and gender stereotypes linked to army task specialities
  • how sailors view being visible as intercourse objects

    Everyone attracted to the difficulty of gays within the army, in addition to a normal homosexual readership, homosexual veterans, and homosexual males for whom sailors symbolize a sexual excellent, will locate Sailors and Sexual identification an informative and enjoyable read.

    Visit Steven Zeeland at his domestic web page: http://www.stevenzeeland.com

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