Steven Ruszczycky is assistant professor of English and teaches in Women’s, Gender, and Queer Studies at California Polytechnic State University. He is coeditor, with T. Dean and D. Squires, of Porn Archives.

• List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1 William Carney and the Leathermen: Revaluing BDSM in the Pornographic Counterpublics of the 1970sChapter 2 Police Cruisers: John Rechy and Samuel Steward Take on the Hot CopChapter 3 Samuel Delany, Scott O’Hara, and the Counterpublic of Sleazehounds: On the Risks of Public Sex in AIDS-Era PornographyChapter 4 Boy Problems: Boyd McDonald’s Straight to Hell, Matthew Stadler’s Allan Stein, and the Becoming Historical of Intergenerational IntimacyConclusion Going Online: Dennis Cooper and the PigletsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“Ruszczycky analyzes gay pornography’s penetration of popular culture and high culture since the 1960s, and its enduring impact on gay sexual fantasies and practices. Comprehensively unfolding—and bravely affirming—that impact’s most unredeemable ‘vulgar’ expressions, Ruszczycky thoughtfully details sensational gay visions of leathermen, hot cops, AIDS-era ‘sleazehounds,’ intergenerational sex, and ‘boys’ who become ‘pigs.’ Vulgar Genres is a major contribution to gay literary and social history, and to cultural studies in general.”