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Bent on Men

A Memoir on Taboo Feelings, Fraternal Curiosity, and Faith

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Bent on Men

By: Harrison Bly
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This taboo memoir eavesdrops into the unguarded mind of a Christian husband and father who came of age attracted to men. As a boy, Harrison Bly craved male affection and camaraderie but never found his footing in the world of boys.

Secretly gay in a conservative Christian world, Harrison compromised authenticity only to find shallow acceptance. On the crooked path to manhood, Harrison fumbled in the dark between ideologies on faith and homosexuality that failed to acknowledge his deepest wounds and longings. But through unplanned and unlikely relationships, Harrison discovered the transforming power of male love that reframed his obsessions, cravings, and curiosities, challenging everything he had come to accept about his masculinity and sexuality.

This book is not a theological primer on homosexuality. Rather, this memoir is a story about what happens in the mind and body of a man who fought to find himself in the place he belonged.

©2021 Harrison Bly (P)2024 Harrison Bly
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Vulnerable Recollection of a Little Known Path

Harrison Bly’s vulnerable recollection of the emergence of his sexuality, experiences of shame and longing for masculinity, and paths of integration and healing highlights a little known path among Christian men. The raw descriptions of his embodied experience and of the power of male intimacy leave readers with images that drive home the challenges of living a life in which one is “too gay to be Christian” yet “too Christian to be gay,” and the places where one may find brothers. As one of the few (or at least the only to this reviewer’s knowledge) book on mixed orientation marriage written from the male perspective in Christianity, Bly’s account also provides representation for unseen men within churches who can point to someone who gives voice to their lived experience. This book is a must read for readers desiring greater understanding of (and blunt honesty about) what a minority experience of sexuality can look like for a Christian man growing up who enters the mystery of marital union with a woman.

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