Barebacking when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for Unlimited Intimacy, Tim Dean s riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it.

Audacious and undeniably...