"Once I started reading, I couldn't stop. An astute theorist and vivid storyteller, Greg Goldberg offers an original, witty, and bold treatise on desire, intimacy, and sexuality—a work that explores pleasure apolitically, on its own terms. The writing is stimulating, satisfying, and unapologetically queer. I love this book." — Tony E. Adams, author of Narrating the Closet: An Autoethnography of Same-Sex Attraction"Finally, a heterodox critique of ethical sluttiness that isn't secretly conservative! Queer Pleasure Without Apology imagines freedom and desire distilled—no moral or political superiority needed. Goldberg has no use for defensiveness as he interrogates the seeds of pleasure and the function of intimacy (or lack thereof). It's refreshing and downright humbling. I feel implicated by this book in the best way." — Nona Willis Aronowitz, author of Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution"Queer Pleasure Without Apology is the best book in Queer Studies I’ve read in a long, long time. Eschewing apology, defense, or the inflated claims typically made on behalf of sex, Goldberg writes about the nitty-gritties of erotic practice with refreshing candor and bristling intelligence. The book is itself a generous and recurring source of pleasure." — Tim Dean, James M. Benson Professor in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
