The male obsession.(Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America)(Book review)

Women's Review of Books, The, July, 2006 by Bolling, Deborah

Hung: A Meditation on the Measurement of Black Men in America By Scott Poulson-Bryant New York: Doubleday, 2005, 209 pp., $22.95, hardcover

In a world where size absolutely does matter, it takes boldness and courage to openly discuss male genital status with aplomb and humor, as author Scott Poulson-Bryant does. Interweaving personal anecdotes, psychosexual metaphors, the hyper-masculinity of hip-hop culture, and the ugly slave history of the US, he invites the reader to look at sexuality through his eyes: those of a bisexual black man. Pitting the idea of black phallic endowment against America's legacy of sexually motivated racial lynchings, Poulson-Bryant presents a fascinating account of tangled erotic egoism. Hung, he says, is "about black male...

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