Throughout Edmund White's long and distinguished career, the openly gay male author has not only created some of the richest representations of gay male identity and sociality, but he has also repeatedly reminded us that sex, pleasure, and, indeed, shame about sex and pleasure are at the heart of what it means to be queer. White writes almost compulsively about the nexus of shame and sexuality, promiscuity, and the compulsion to be sexual. But for White, sexual promiscuity shouldn't necessarily be shameful; rather, the pursuit of sexual pleasures and the delight in identities based on sexuality are a potent part of what makes queer life what it is. A paradigmatic example of such potency is White's powerful memoir, My Lives, which offers a startling, graphic, and challenging accounting of sexuality, shame, promiscuity, and pleasure—one often eclipsed in more domesticating rhetoric about queer lives. For White in particular, compulsion and compulsive narration become strategies to intervene in how we understand and figure normative gay male lives. To show the power—and necessity—of White's work, this article contrasts it with recent gay fiction, particularly Tom Mendicino's much lauded novel, Probation, to examine how sexual compulsion and promiscuity are figured for different aesthetic—and political—ends.

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Narrating Sexual Compulsion: Gay Male Writing Beyond Shame

Los cambios en torno a las políticas públicas del país, especialmente en Yucatán, en materia de sexualidad, derechos reproductivos y derechos humanos en torno a ambas, van creando escenarios marcados por diferentes formas de tensión entre los grupos sociales que conforman la sociedad. Estas pugnas pueden resultar en actitudes poco favorables para la promoción y ampliación de dichos derechos, dejando en estado de desprotección a grupos histórica y socialmente vulnerables, como aquellos que conforman las mujeres, los colectivos LGTBI+ así como personas que, ante la incomprensión de sus necesidades, han sido sujetos a toda clase de discriminación y violencia. Partimos de la hipótesis de que la ignorancia en determinados temas, genera escenarios en los que las resistencias se hacen patentes, así como la propia capacidad de comprensión de los mismos, por lo que el presente trabajo, tiene como objetivo principal, el presentar un panorama básico de conocimientos en torno a la sexualidad humana, mayormente enfocada hacia los aspectos biológicos pero sin dejar de reconocer, que los mismos forman parte de un sistema integral bio-psico-social en cada persona, por lo que también pero en menor medida, incorpora conocimientos sociales en torno a la sexualidad. Es con ello, que los resultados, nos ayudarán a comprender sobre qué bases de conocimiento e imaginarios se encuentra el Estado de Yucatán.

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Conocimientos sobre sexualidad en Yucatán, México. Una aproximación desde las redes sociales

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