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Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 The Explanation for Everything (Bad) 1 2 Motion Pictures 17 i. Generic Bodies 19 ii. Novel Sensation 36 iii. Cut/Uncut 45 3 End Pleasure 54 i. The Wicked Queen’s Anxieties 58 ii. Their Vehement Sexual Customs 63 iii. Radical Heterosexuality, Heterosexuality Manqué 72 4 Coffee Table Sex 82 i. Photography Is Like Perversion 85 ii. The Sadomasochism of Everyday Life 94 iii. There Is Too Much Sexual Relation 102 5 Muscles 113 i. Matter and Ghost 116 ii. Face Value 119 iii. Phallic Subjectivity 132 6 Lavender Fascists 140 i. To Lose Both Parents 146 ii. There Are No Bad Heterosexuals 151 iii. Talk Grows of the Government Being Out to Get Blacks (Or, In Defense of Paranoia) 161 Notes 175 Index 197 About the Author 205 vii ...

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