This great book hit home | Sailors and Sexual Identity: Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in...

The truths nobody wants to admit. | Sailors and Sexual Identity: Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy (Haworth Gay and ... | Steven Zeeland

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	• Sailors and Sexual Identity: Crossing the Line Between "Straight" and "Gay" in the U.S. Navy (Haworth Gay and ... Steven Zeeland Routledge, 1995 - 296 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I quit my job and join the Navy now!

Zeeland's interviews makes you think you're not in the right job if you're not in the Navy. It's almost an erotic book but the author bias on Navy men is sometimes irritating. Then again, i knew those Marines knew how to have fun....

This great book hit home

I went into the Navy at 17 because I thought I was gay and it would "cure" me. 20 yrs later I read this book and I was floored!Mr Zeeland hits it right with his candid wit and true facts. I fell in love with this book. THis book is for anyone who is trying to fix what cant be fixed. My 4 yrs in the USnavy was the best time I ever had. I recommend this book, not for a sexual lark but for its insight on the true feelings of young gay men trying to prove to society that they are ok! Bravo Mr Zeeland

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The truths nobody wants to admit.

Zeeland's book is an honest account of the sexual frustrations and sexual activities that have always been a part of shipboard life. Many men are attracted to the overt masculinity of life in uniform in a largely all-male environment. "Sailors" is a gut-level view of the men who proudly serve their country, but also have natural sexual needs that they must address. This is the most honest book on the subject to come out as yet. Zeeland is also a good writer, and he knows how to make his subject immediate and alive. I was impressed.

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a thoroughly odd and enjoyable book

Yes, I say "odd." Zeeland suggests that open (or legal) homosexuality in the Navy (and armed forces generally) might result in a more constrained atmosphere of homoeroticism in the military.

After all, this is a book more concerned with sexual identity than with the narrower issue of "Don't ask, don't tell" (the policy being debated in the background of these interviews).

Every guy should read this book. Sexual identity is way more complex and interesting than we are raised to think. These sailors and marines share many insights with Zeeland, who shares them with his readers in an entertaining and literate way.

Yes, this is a beautiful book.

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Ah, the Navy

I LOVE THIS BOOK!! I've read it about 3 times. Everytime I read it I just want to go back to the days where I was around sailors all the time and wished I was on a ship. Sailors have always been a big turn on for me and this book helps to relive everything

In Sailors and Sexual Identity, author Steven Zeeland talks with young male sailors--both gay- and straight-identified--about ways in which their social and sexual lives have been shaped by their Navy careers.

Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of ?gays in the military? and the sexual realities of military life. The conversations in this book reveal how known ?gay? and ?straight? men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life once they discover that the imagined boundary between them is not, in fact, a hard line.

The stories recounted here in vivid detail call into question the imagined boundaries between gay and straight, homosexual and homosocial, and suggest a secret Pentagon motivation for the gay ban: to protect homoerotic military rituals, buddy love, and covert military homosexuality from the taint of sexual suspicion.

Zeeland?s interviews explore many aspects of contemporary life in the Navy including:gay/straight friendship networksthe sexual charge to the Navy/Marine Corps rivalrythe reality behind sailors?reputations as sexual adventurers in port and at seamen?s differing interpretations of homoerotic military rituals and initiationssex and gender stereotypes associated with military job specialitieshow sailors view being seen as sex objects

Everyone interested in the issue of gays in the military, along with a general gay readership, gay veterans, and gay men for whom sailors represent a sexual ideal, will find Sailors and Sexual Identity an informative and entertaining read.

Visit Steven Zeeland at his home page: http://www.stevenzeeland.com

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