American voyeur
Subtitle: dispatches from the far reaches of modern life
By: Benoit Denizet-Lewis.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781416539155; 9781416594475
Subjects: Interpersonal relations -- United States -- Anecdotes; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- -- Anecdotes; United States -- Civilization
Genres: Anecdotes
Description: "Benoit Denizet-Lewis, one of the most perceptive and interesting journalists writing today, takes us into some unusual precincts of American society in American Voyeur." "Denizet-Lewis made news with his New York Times Magazine cover story "Double Lives on the Down Low," included here, which ignited a firestorm by revealing a subculture of African-American men who have sex with other men but who don't consider themselves gay. In American Voyeur, he also takes us inside a summer camp for pro-life teenagers, a New Hampshire town where two young brothers committed suicide, a social group for lipstick lesbians, a middle school where a girl secretly lives as a boy, a college where fraternity boys face the daunting prospect of sobriety, a state where legally married young gay men are turning out to be more like their parents than anyone might have suspected, a high school where dating has been replaced by "hooking up," and other intersections of youth culture and sexuality. Peer behind the curtain of modern American life with this remarkable collection."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: About a boy who isn't; title: God is rad; title: Whatever happened to teen romance?; title: Brother's keeper; title: Kids Inc; title: Camp life; title: Trouble in paradise; title: The war on frat culture; title: Boy crazy; title: Cosmetically correct; title: Abercrombie nation; title: The newlywed gays; title: What's in a street name?; title: Living (and dying) on the down low; title: Get out of my closet; title: The newlywed gays; title: The model and the murder; title: Regular guys.