Alone in his forest dwelling, an ogre had spent years building machinesto force his visitors to make love to one another: machines with pulleys, chains, clocks, collars, leather leggings, metal breastplates, oscillatory, pendular, orrotating dildos. One day, some adolescents who had lost their way, seven or eightbrothers, entered the ogre's house...--From The Screwball AssesOur asshole isrevolutionary.--Guy HocquenghemWorkers of the world, masturbate -- Front Homosexueld'Action Revolutionnaire sloganFirst published anonymously in F?lix Guattari'sRecherches in the notorious 1973 issue on homosexuality (seized and destroyed by theFrench government), The Screwball Asses remains a dramatic treatise on eroticdesire. In this classic underground text, queer theorist and post-'68 provocateurGuy Hocquenghem takes on the militant delusions of the gay liberation movement.Hocquenghem, founder and leader of the Front Homosexuel d'Action Revolutionnaire, vivisects not only the stifled mores of bourgeois capitalism but the phallocraticconcessions of so-called homophiles, and, ultimately, the very act of speakingdesire (and non-desire). Rejecting any "pure theory" of homosexuality thatclaims its "otherness" as a morphology of revolution, he contends that theruling classes have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting andmutilating desire in the process. It is only when non-desire and the desire ofdesire are enacted simultaneously through speech and body that homosexuality canfinally be sublimated under the true act of "making love." There arethousands of sexes on earth, according to Hocquenghem, but only one sexual desire.Available in English for the first time, The Screwball Asses is a revelatorydisquisition, earning Hocquenghem his rightful place among the minoritarian elite ofGilles Deleuze, Jean Genet, and Tony Duvert.