Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: In debt to the Censor; 1 Queer heroes; 2 Cows with guns: Sadistic hegemony, Hitchcock and biblical dismemberment; 3 Night sprinkle(s): Pornography and the Song of Songs; Stolen water is sweeter, stolen bread tastes better: On representing sex workers; 5 Ezekiel's axl, or, anarchism and ecstasy; 6 Pawing through garbage: On the dialectics of dystopia in Lamentations and the Strugatsky brothers; 7 Graves of craving: Fast food, or, manna and McDonald's; Postscript: The exploding elephant; Notes; Bibliography; Index of biblical references.