The War on Sex

David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality in the English Department at the University of Michigan and the author, most recently, of How to Be Gay. Trevor Hoppe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and author of Punishing Disease.

Foreword. Thinking Sex and Justice / Trevor Hoppe  ix
Introduction. The War on Sex / David M. Halperin  1
Part I. The Politics of Sex
1. The New Pariahs: Sex, Crime and Punishment in America / Roger N. Lancaster  65
2. Sympathy for the Devil: Why Progressives Haven't Helped the Sex Offender, Why They Should, and How They Can / Judith Levine  126
3, Queer Disavowel: "Controversial Crimes" and Building Abolition / Owen Daniel-McCarter, Erica R. Meiners, and R Noll  174
4. A New Iron Closet: Failing to Extend the Spirit of Lawrence v. Texas to Prison and Prisoners / J. Wallace Borchert  191
5. Seeing the Sex and Justice Landscape through the Vatican's Eyes: The War on Gender and the Seamless Garmet of Sexual Rights / Mary Anne Case  211
Part II. The Invention of the Sex Offender
6. Sex Panic, Psychiatry, and the Expansion ofthe Carceral State / Regina Kunzel 229
7. The Creation of the Modern Sex Offender / Scott de Orio  247
8. For What They Might Do: A Sex Offender Exception to the Constitution / Laura Mansnerus  268
Part III. Sex Work and the  Trouble with Trafficking
9. The "Hooker Teacher" Tell All / Melissa Petro  291
10. Carceral Politics as Gender Justice? The "Traffic in Women" and Neoliberal Circuits of Crime, Sex, and Rights / Elizabeth Bernstein  297
11. California's Proposition 35 and the Trouble with Trafficking / Carol Queen and Penelope Saunders  323
Part IV. Making HIV a Crime
12. HIV: Prosecution or Prevention? HIV is Not a Crime / Sean Strub  347
13. HIV Monsters: Gay Men, Criminal Law, and the New Political Economy of HIV / Gregory Tomso  353
14. HIV Care as Social Rehabilitation: Medical Governance, the AIDS Surveillance Industry, and Therapeutic Citizenship Neoliberal Taiwan / Hans Tao-Ming Huang   378
Part V. Resistance
15. The New War on Sex: A Report from the Global Front Lines/ Maurice Tomlinson  409
16. Building a Movement for Justice: Doe v. Jindal and the Campaign Against Louisiana's Crime Against Nature Statute / Alexis Agathocleous  429
17. Bringing Sex to the Table of Justice / Amber Hollibaugh  454
Afterword. How You Can Get Involved / Trevor Hoppe  461
Contributors  465
Index  469