Polysexuality (book)

Polysexuality was the tenth issue of the journal Semiotext(e), designed to illustrate "the plural aspects of sexuality." It was edited by Canadian psychoanalyst François Peraldi and first published in 1981. The front cover depicted a bare-bottomed leatherman sitting on a motorcycle. The back cover depicted a suicide victim, bent over, tied-up and with blood dribbling down his legs. [http://www.echonyc.com/~trans/Telesymposia3/Lotringer/frameLotringer%20A3%20eng.html] It contained several black and white illustrations. "Polysexuality" was reprinted in 1995, in a new edition noting that Peraldi had died of AIDS in 1993. [cite book |first=François. |last=Peraldi |year=1995|title=Polysexuality |publisher=Semiotext(e) |location=New York |id= ISBN 1-57027-011-2 ]

It reprinted material by writers and philosophers such as Pierre Klossowski, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, William S. Burroughs, Paul Virilio, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Guy Hocquenghem, together with an introduction written by François Peraldi. It contained thirteen chapters: "Self Sex", "Soft Sex", "Alimentary Sex", "Sex of the Gaze", "Ambiguous Sex", "Animal Sex", "Child Sex", "Morbid Sex", "Violent Sex", "Discursive Sex", "Philosophical Sex", and "Critical Sex". "Self Sex" was about masturbation, "Animal Sex" about bestaility, and "Child Sex" about pedophilia. It was attacked in the United States Congress for its alleged advocacy of bestiality. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8869]

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