From the liberating discovery of "buddies" in the World War II trenches to the brutal repression of the 50s, from the heady possibilities that emerged in the wake of the Stonewall uprising to the hedonistic lovefests and ecstatic extremes of the baths and sex clubs of the 70s, and finally from the psychical and emotional carnage of the AIDS-plagued 80s to the 90s sex clubs, Douglas Sadownick provides a full-scale psychosocial analysis of the sexual behavior of gay men. Combining personal testimony, thoughtful commentary and glimpses of social history from archival material, Sex Between Men puts the sex back in homosexual.From the liberating discovery of "buddies" in the World War II trenches to the brutal repression of the 50s, from the heady possibilities that emerged in the wake of the Stonewall uprising to the hedonistic lovefests and ecstatic extremes of the baths and sex clubs of the 70s, and finally from the psychical and emotional carnage of the AIDS-plagued 80s to the 90s sex clubs, Douglas Sadownick provides a full-scale psychosocial analysis of the sexual behavior of gay men. Combining personal testimony, thoughtful commentary and glimpses of social history from archival material, Sex Between Men puts the sex back in homosexual.