Gay sex remains a taboo subject for serious analysis and discussion for many people, including some members of the LGBTQ+ community.
For this reason alone, A Pill for Promiscuity: Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals is a refreshing read.It’s one of three books launched to mark the birth of the new publishing house Q+Public, an offshoot of Rutgers University Press.
It aims to curate semi-academic and cultural LGBTQ+ collections from leading thinkers, writers and artists.The book is edited by Andrew R.
Spieldenner and the late Jeffrey Escoffier. In a Zoom call from San Francisco, Spieldenner explains how the book came about.“I was talking with Jeffery and I thought, no one’s really talking about this,” he tells Queerty. “About how there are all these kinds of medications in our lives as gay men.