"A fascinating and candid look at the intimate lives and passions of a group of men played out against the homoerotic landscape that is the U.S. Marine Corps."

"A riveting ensemble of cultural analysis, personal anecdote, military beefcake snapshots, and unexpectedly poignant interviews with current and former Marines. . . . makes its place somewhere between sociology and 'true confessions' pornography."

"A new genre, part gender theory and part erotica. . . . The palpable undercurrent of sensuality turns the book, at times, into a smoking peep show. Is this a fuck book masquerading as social science? . . . What makes the discussion interesting is the sheer insight of Zeeland’s subjects. Some of these Marines sound as articulate as any Ivy League dissertator and just as adept at deconstructing the military’s contradictions."

"Sexy, witty, smart, and shocking. . . . This book will be key reading for anyone interested in gay writing, gays in the military, queer theory, and the construction of gender."

"Eavesdropping on Zeeland's conversations with military boys about uniforms, tattoos, initiation rituals, and hot clandestine sex in the woods, the showers, or the fan room of a ship, readers get inside the messy, contradictory elements of sex and gender more completely than they could get in any cultural studies course. These books are naughty and delicious and important."

"Zeeland's trilogy is the single best account of gay men in the military and a brilliantly subtle attack at Pentagon homophobia and its ridiculous 'don't ask, don't tell policy."

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by Mark Simpson.