**A 2024 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST** “Zachary Zane is one of the best sex writers
working today.” —Dan Savage New York Times bestselling author Named a Most Anticipated
LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist bares it all in a
series of essays—part memoir part manifesto—that explore the author’s coming-of-age and coming
out as a bisexual man and move toward embracing and celebrating sex unencumbered by shame.
As a boy Zachary Zane sensed that all was not right when images of his therapist naked popped
into his head. Without an explanation as to why a deep sense of shame pervaded these thoughts.
Though his therapist assured him a little imagination was nothing to be ashamed of over the
years society told him otherwise. Boyslut is a series of personal and tantalizing essays
that articulate how our society still shames people for the sex that they have and the
sexualities that they inhabit. Through the lens of his bisexuality and much self-described
sluttiness Zane breaks down exactly how this sexual shame negatively impacts the sex and
relationships in our lives and through personal experience shares how we can unlearn the
harmful entrenched messages that society imparts to us. From stories of drug-fueled
threesomes and risqué Grindr hookups to insights on dealing with rejection and living with his
boyfriend and his boyfriend’s wife Boyslut is reassuring and often painfully funny—but is most
potently a testimony that we can all learn to live healthier lives unburdened by stigma.
