Unruly Desires by William Benemann

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/32715 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unruly Desires Author: William Benemann Narrator: Rich Miller Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins Release date: 05-03-22 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 15 ratings Genres: LGBTQ+ Studies Publisher's Summary: In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, the nineteenth century US Navy and the commercial maritime industry welcomed eccentrics, criminals, outcasts, and misfits into a community of the marginalized, one that held very different values and expectations than the towns and villages from which the young men fled, a community that offered a tentative refuge to men who were sexually attracted to other men. Benemann provides an in-depth examination of nineteenth century LGBTQ culture as it developed at sea and in America's port cities.