Dean Durber

Dean Durber is an independent writer and researcher based in Perth, Western Australia. His doctoral thesis (2004) offers a critique of the gay liberationist insistence that engagement in male-male sex must constitute a memorable component of the self, as well as the marginalisation of non-homosexual male-male corporeal pleasures. He has tutored and lectured in sexuality studies, drug culture and cultural studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Theatre Studies (University of New South Wales) and a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese and Japanese Studies (University of Leeds). His published research interests include sexual cultures in China, cyber predator laws, and Internet sex addiction. He is a published author of queer fiction, including a novel, Johnny, Come Home. Notably, he has co-authored with Dr. Richard Yuill and written on the censorship of a planned article by Dr. Bruce Rind on pederasty set to appear in the Journal of Homosexuality, which led to the backlash publication of Censoring Sex Research (2013) in response.

He was associated with the University of Tasmania. His writing promotes an application of queer theories to controversial issues of sexuality and gender. His most exciting lived queer moment to date has been to sue, with great success, the police for wrongful arrest on a charge of conspiracy to commit an indecent act in public with another male, as well as the committing of such acts from time to time.

In his PhD dissertation, he wrote:

My involvement in this research has scared the life out of me. Indeed, at times, the intensity of my approach has threatened to take my life away. But it is all over now. I can breathe again. Until the next time. Until this queered body desires yet more dangerously disrupting disorganisation...

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• Academia edu profile