Table of Contents
Foreword Jack Halberstam ix
Introduction 1
1 Countersexual Society 19
Principles of Countersexual Society 32
(Sample) Countersexual Contract 40
2 Countersexual Reversal Practices 41
Dildotectonics 41
Practice I: Ron Athey's Solar Anus 44
Practice II: Masturbating an Arm 48
Practice III: How to Pleasure a Dildo-Head 52
3 Theories 57
Derrida's Scissors: The Logic of the Dildo 57
Butler's Vibrator: A Brief Genealogy of Sex Toys and Sexual Prostheses 74
Money Makes Sex: The Industrialization of the Sexes 100
Haraway's Prosthesis: Sex Technologies 120
4 Countersexual Reading Exercises 141
On Philosophy as a Better Way of Doin' It in the Ass-Deleuze and "Molecular Homosexuality" 141
Dildo 161
Prosthesis, Mon Amour 164
Author's Note 173
Acknowledgments 175
Notes 177
Bibliography 191
Index 201