Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.
1. Coming out, coming together -- 2. Sexual politics and the politics of sexuality -- 3. Gender and generation -- 4. Sado-masochism, masculinity and the problem of pornography -- 5. Public sex : the eroticisation of an oppressed position -- 6. Private love : an alternative? -- 7. The AIDS dialectic -- 8. Politics, plurality and postmodernity.