Raw: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking [Paperback]

How is the practice of barebacking understood and represented across media, theory, and policy?

Marking the tenth anniversary of Unlimited Intimacy, Tim Deans seminal work, Raw returns to the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. The authors in Raw push Deans conclusions and show the urgent need to consider condomless sex, as it is still illegal for HIV-positive people in many jurisdictions.

Contributors: Jonathan A. Allan (Brandon University), Tim Dean (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Elliot Evans (University of Birmingham), Christien Garcia (University of Cambridge), Octavio R. Gonzales (Wellesley College), Adam J. Greteman (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Frank G. Karioris (University of Pittsburgh & American University of Central Asia), Gareth Longstaff (Newcastle University), Paul Morris (San Francisco), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku), Diego Semerene (Oxford Brookes University), Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University), Ricky Varghese (Toronto), Rinaldo Walcott (University of Toronto)

Ricky Varghesehas a PhD in sociology of education from the University of Toronto and runs a private practice as a psychotherapist. He lives in Toronto.


Tim Deanis a British philosopher and author, scholar of queer theory, and professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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