title: Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature
author:  David Greven 
description: "There is much to value in Greven's work. Beyond the strong readings, of Irving and Hawthorne in particular, and beyond the keen sense it shows of the collision between Jacksonian ideals of the self-made man and reformist insistences on purity and sentimental propriety, the book offers a bracing take on the dynamics of male intimacies in the nineteenth century, one that recognizes the presence of a variety of sentimental modes but insists too on the rivalry, fear, violence, and enmity that made the world of homosociality no less perilous, for the sexually nonnormative, than the world of reproductive heterosexuality." - Peter Coviello, <i>Studies in American Fiction</i>
zlib_text: **The Screwball Asses**
  
   _Christian Maurel_  
   _Translated by Noura Wedell_  
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  This essay was originally published in the March 72 issue of _Recherches_ ,
  “Three Billion Perverts: An Encyclopedia of Homo-sexualities.” The issue was
  seized, and Félix Guattari, as the publication’s director, was fined 600
  francs for affronting public decency. No. 12 of _Recherches_ was judged to
  constitute a “detailed display of turpitude and sexual deviation,” the
  “libidinous exhibition of a minority of perverts.” All copies of the issue
  were ordered to be destroyed.  
    
  
  **1**
  
  > _My God! What game are they playing? Come on, this is pure rubbish!_  
  >  –Samuel Beckett
  
  Let me start with the admission that what follows is exclusively addressed to
  those individuals with whom I cannot make love. For everyone else, the
  festivity of bodies transforms speech into a servant of the body, nothing
  else. It is not useless to specify this: we 