My Next Book Discussion group at Gayway

Dancing Around the Volcano by Guy Kettelhack

This will be a seven week discussion group looking at the sex lives of gay men. As an alternative to the traditional monogamous model, he wants to tell the truth about the sex gay men are really having.

Using the voices of different men who tell of their experiences, Kettelhack questions the assumptions bout the “pathology” of promiscuity, sexual compulsion, sadomasochism, fetishes and celibacy. These personal stories are often sexy, sometimes funny, almost always poignant in their honesty, and startling in their insights. We hear about everything from hustling to monogamous gay relationships, from the baths to the private bedroom, from fisting to French-kissing. What emerges is a sex-positive take on the whole gamut of gay male sexual behaviour.

Celebrating the ingenuity with which gay men manage their sexual behaviour and aggressive drives and fantasies, Dancing Around the Volcano is a passionately pro-sex book with potentially healing – even revolutionary – implications for everyone.