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Ricky Varghese has a PhD in sociology of education from the University of Toronto, Canada and runs a private practice as a psychotherapist. Tim Dean is a British philosopher and author, scholar of queer theory, and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Introduction: The Mourning After: Barebacking and Belatedness - Ricky VarghesePart I: Biopolitical Limits1. Is the Foreskin a Grave? - Jonathan A. Allan2. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), the “Truvada Whore,” and the New Gay Sexual Revolution - Octavio R. González3. Heterosexuality, Men, and Narratives of Virility and Virality - Frank G. KariorisPart II: Bodily Limits4. Black Cumjoy: Pleasure and a Racist Virus - Rinaldo Walcott5. your blood dazzles m/e: Reading Blood, Sex, and Intimacy in Monique Wittig and Patrick Califia - Elliot EvansPart III: Pornographic Limits6. The Return of the Repressed: Visualizing Sex Without Condoms - Evangelos Tziallas7. Strange Optimism: Queer Rage as Visceral Ethics - Paul Morris and Susanna Paasonen8. “Bodies that Splutter”: Theorizing Jouissance in Bareback and Chemsex Porn - Gareth LongstaffPart IV: Psychoanalytical and Pedagogical Limits9. Cross-Dressing Violence: Barebacking as Symbolic Drag - Diego Semerene10. Raw Education: PrEP and the Ethics of Updating Sexual Education - Adam J. Greteman11. Merely Barebacking - Christien GarciaAfterword, The Raw and the Fucked - Tim Dean

Queer theory is only valuable if it is unsettling, decentering, even outrageous. Any discussion of the highly controversial issues of barebacking satisfy such demands of queer theory remarkably. These essays challenge unsettled matters of barebacking and challenge us to rethink complex, multilayered questions of contemporary sexual politics.