Book Reviews
Abstract
MEN AND MASCULINITIES / July 1999 gay men (Scrivner). While the use of data here does not rival Lisak's work, these articles demonstrate that nonrelational sex varies by social context, although the generalizing themes of masculinity seem to override some of the cultural variation. Probably the weakest article is Brooks's and Levant's con- cluding chapter on "prescriptions" for social change. They suggest resocial- izing boys' sexuality through helping boys talk about their feelings, men- toring and parenting youth, and "gender role" workshops. You will need to look elsewhere for the content of these workshops. Is this collection an addition to a "new" psychological perspective? Not really. The perspective articulates previous radical feminist analyses of sexu- ality (for example, Stock's use of the radical feminist critique of pornogra- phy). Men's studies scholars such as Michael Kimmel have argued elsewhere against "predatory" masculine sexual behaviors (see "Clarence, William, Iron Mike, Tailhook, Senator Packwood, Magic ... and Us" in Men's lives 1995). And the title of the collection is a misnomer-it is not about all men's sexuality but only about those men who subscribe to certain, varied forms of nonrelational sex. These tendencies to overgeneralize and overtheorize from clinical psychological data