>"The phenomenology of a sex club encounter is an experience of world
>making," Warner had said. "It's an experience of being connected not just
>to this person but to potentially limitless numbers of people, and that is
>why it's important that it be with a stranger. Sex with a stranger is like
>a metonym." Thus did crack-brained theory justify what Horowitz called "the
>real source of the problem: the re-emergence of a bathhouse-sex club
>culture that fosters large cohorts of promiscuous strangers spreading the
>infection in urban gay centers."
Not being a gay male, I have to ask: is this compulsive sex-with-many-strangers thing a male gay thing? or a male thing? is it a way of fantasizing community in a capitalist/urban setting? Puzzled....
Thanks,
Joanna Bujes