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books
Lookout!
The fuzz!
New book 'Fur' explores the glories
of woolly masculinity in gay culture
ARNOLD WAYNE JONES I Life+Style Editor
jones@dallasvoice.com
M
ainstream culture continues to argue pub-
licly about "the gay debate:" Is it innate or
a choice? Behavior or orientation? Worthy
of marriage protection or too ho-hum. We've heard
all that before, and for a lot longer than talk radio has
been discussing it.
No, inside the LGBT community is another "gay
debate," one that no one has
ever reached consensus on:
To shave or not to shave?
As gay issues go, it may
seem less political than em-
ployment rights or marriage
FUR:THE LOVE OF HAIR
Edited by Ron Suresha
and Scott McGillivray
(Bruno Gmunder 2012).
$63; 256 pp.TLA.com.
equality, but it's no less fur i-
ous within the community,
covering all mariner of sub-
categories: "Masculine" ver-
sus effeminate; twirik versus
bear; an naturel versus man-
scaping.
The new book Fun The
Love of Hair doesn't come
any closer to resolving the
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debate than we have as a culture. But it's sure has a
lot of fun raising the issues.
You can tell just by the subtitle what side the editors, Ron
Suretha and Scott McGillivray, fall on. Fur revels gloriously in the
pursuit of the hirsute, with enticing, downright erotic drawings,
photos and renderings of men (all, presumably, gay) enjoy ing their
own woolly natures and those of their fellow bears. There are
nudes (some couples — or more) and closeups of body parts that
develop their own fuzzy ecosystems, from beards to legs to other
nether regions. There are realistic drawings and impressionist
'Fur' not only features sexy (sometimes erotic) photos and drawings of hairy men, but essays that explore the appeal of fur in gay culture.
paintings from a slate of artists and photographers. There are
butch as well as tender pictures of hair- and tattoo-covered men of
all shapes and sizes. As a coffee-table book,. It's not something
you'll want to leave out while grandma is over.
But there's more to it that the stunning mages we've come to
expect from publisher Bruno Gmunder. There are also essays that
extol the virtues of hai riness (hair makes man appear larger,
stronger and more mature, they opine — advantages in hetero
mating as well as the gay sex ritual). There are quotations from
fur-lovers, and an explication of "bear codes" and its role in cul-
ture from fashion to fetish to politics. In short, Fur is an exhaustive
and historical look at the meaning of manhood from the POV of
the follicle.
Go ahead and shave if you must; admire the boys who look as
fresh as pealed pears. You can probably avoid this. But Fur does
such a thorough job at capturing the wonderment of body hair,
you might actually find yourself convinced to put away the clip-
pers, at least for awl ile, and adir i re the brute beauty of scruff. ■
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Wright, John. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 2012, newspaper, June 22, 2012; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth308872/m1/44/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.