Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men - Softcover

Thomsen, Michael

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9781780994987: Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men

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ISBN 10: 1780994982 ISBN 13: 9781780994987

Publisher: Zero Books, 2012

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A lovestory in fragments, told in the margins of a new philosophy of 21st Century sexuality. Each essay recounts bad sex, shambolic internet dates, moral infirmness, handjobs, blowjobs, an HIV scare, an STD, and a hope-filled cross-country move that ended in shambles. The collection is an epistolary memento of struggling with identity, circumstance, gender constraints, and time itself--all bound by a stubborn animal faith in love as an act of insupportable ascendency, a kind of levitation, longed-for by creatures never meant to leave the ground.

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About the Author:

Michael Thomsen is a writer living in New York. He has written about sex, video games, books, music, animals, and male lactation for Slate, ABC World News, The Daily Beast, The Believer, The New Inquiry, Kill Screen, Billboard, Paste, The Millions, Wall Street Journal and others.

Review:

A crushingly honest collection of confessions about love in the shape of sex, from which any American man could learn a thing or ten. ~ Malcolm Harris, The New Inquiry

Thomsen writes with wit, intelligence, and impressive candor about things most people are too embarrassed to discuss. The end product is a book that everyone--virgins and experts alike--will find engrossing, illuminating, and absolutely hilarious. ~ Adam Wilson, Author of Flatscreen

Best Beach Reads for Smart People 2012 - The Atlantic
"The reality of the collection veers from pertinent social insight to anecdotal hilarity and mundane encounter....Thomsen [voices] issues around performance and masculinity, social expectation and vulnerability, with a rare candidness." - Hannah Gregory - The Quietus
"a bit of a Symposium for heteros." Ryan Healy - The Millions

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