Scapegoat Publishing www.scapegoatpublishing.com TITLE INFORMATION Title: Androphilia Subtitle: Rejecting the Gay Identity, Reclaiming Masculinity Author First Name: Jack Author Last Name: Malebranche Edition: 1st ISBN: 0-9764035-8-7 Price: $11.95 Binding: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Size: 8x5” Full Description: The word gay has never described mere homosexuality. Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a taste in music, a hairstyle, a marketing demographic, a bumper sticker, a political agenda and philosophical viewpoint. Gay is a pre-packaged, superficial persona—a lifestyle. It’s a sexual identity that has almost nothing to do with sexuality. Androphlia is a manifesto full of truly dangerous ideas: that men can have sex with men and retain their manhood, that homosexuality can be about championing a masculine ideal rather than attacking it, and that the wicked, oppressive ‘construct of masculinity’ despised by the gay community could actually enrich and improve the lives of homosexual and bisexual men. Androphilia is a rejection of the overloaded gay identity and a return to a discussion of homosexuality in terms of desire: a raw, apolitical sexual desire and the sexualized appreciation for masculinity as experienced by men. Brief Description: Androphilia is a rejection of the overloaded gay identity and a return to a discussion of homosexuality in terms of desire: a raw, apolitical sexual desire and the sexualized appreciation for masculinity as experienced by men. Quote: “Jack Malebranche is a straight-talking drill instructor for today’s gay generation, weaning them off Pop Divas and bear beauty pageants and licking them into a more manly, more self-reliant shape, ready to re-join the masculine fray. Androphilia is his persuasive, compelling, no-frills Boot Camp. After completing it, you may or may not decide to save your drama for your mama and join the company of men, but you’ll certainly wonder why the gay male world, a community of men who like other men, seems to have such a problem with masculinity.” - Mark Simpson, Editor of Anti-Gay and father of the ‘metrosexual’ Author Biography: Jack Malebranche got his first job at 13, working the line in a turkey slaughterhouse during the holiday season. He’s been an office manager, a public relations hack, a bad salesman, a worse waiter, a burger flipper, a coffee slinger, a cubicle dweller, a stockboy, a barback, a pastry cook, a go-go dancer, a nightclub promoter and the graveyard shift desk attendant at a seedy residence hotel. Raised in the bosom of Amish country in rural Pennsylvania, he’s since lived in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and has had ample opportunity to observe homosexuals in the wild. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where he paints velvet portraits of an unsavory nature. Author Short Biography: Jack Malebranche is a writer and artist living in Portland, OR. Author Home: Portland, OR Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION viii A MANIFESTO 16 GAY IS DEAD 17 ANDROPHILIA—SEXUALITY AS PREFERENCE 22 GAY PARTY CRASHING 29 THE STIGMA OF EFFEMINACY 45 ‘MAN’—THE NATURAL RELIGION OF MEN 65 TOWARD A MASCULINE IDEAL 78 CHARACTER, NOT CARICATURE 95 TAKING BACK MASCULINITY 107 ANDRO CULTURE—A FRATERNITY WITHIN 114 AN ESSAY 122 AGREEMENTS BETWEEN MEN 123 APPENDIX 138 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 139 AKNOWLEDGEMENTS 142 Excerpt: Feminist disdain for ‘the construct of masculinity,’ widespread in the gay world, may actually cheat men out of a masculine value system that has historically been proven to bring out some of men’s best qualities. Men who are often single for a significant part of their lives could benefit greatly by championing self-reliance and personal responsibility over perpetual victimhood, and blaming society for their predicaments. It may also prove a cheaper and more effective guard against the spread of disease than the glamorized, affirming, nonjudgmental, velvet-gloved finger wagging of the average anti-AIDS ad campaign. Perhaps holding personal achievement higher than the self-congratulatory, therapy-induced ‘emotional survivor’ mentality that holds sway over the gay community might actually be a good thing. And the concept of masculine honor, when not taken to self-destructive extremes, might prove a welcome change of pace from a community known for incessant gossip and henhouse bitchiness.