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191 pages
English language
Published Nov. 24, 1995 by Outbound Press.
The brig
by Mason Powell
Mason Powell: The brig (1995, Outbound Press)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9640291-1-8
- OCLC Number:
- 35109177
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5 stars
(1 review)
Novel (66,000 words) Genre(s): Gay, Historical, BDSM Drama This classic gay BDSM novel, set near the end of the Viet Nam war, has been out of print for almost 20 years. Long before “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” being queer in the military was a one-way ticket to dishonorable discharge and a psychiatric diagnosis for mental disorder. In 'The Brig', a young sailor awaiting discharge as a Conscientious Objector is confined to a military prison where he is tortured with pain, fear, sexuality and mind games to force changes in his psyche and break his spirit. Yet, the sailor learns things about himself and his captors that will transform him and challenge those who hold him.
Subjects
- United States. Navy -- Prisons -- Fiction.
- United States. Navy -- Petty officers -- Fiction.
- Gay men -- Fiction.
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Fiction.
- Military prisons -- United States -- Fiction.
- Naval discipline -- United States -- Fiction.
- Sadomasochism -- Fiction.