Abstract
Previously in this journal (Clark, 1999), I developed a new midrashic layer for apocalypse studies, delineating a possible queer reading of apocalypse based on and responding to the earlier feminist reading of apocalypse by Catherine Keller (1996) in tandem with the sexual ecology of Gabriel Rotello (1997). At the end of this deconstructive project, I began to elaborate a counter-apocalyptic alternative: long-term and monogamously committed same-sex couples. In an effort now to more fully undertake such reconstructive work, I argue in the present essay that reconstructing sexual ethics through profeminist and men's studies-friendly analyses provides us with important ways to skirt, to avoid, and to counter apocalyptic tendencies within and among us. To that end I examine the importance of the erotic, of appropriate self-love, and of sexual pleasure in our lives, as well as the values of relationality and responsibility for sexual ethics.
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