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Criminal intimacy shows how the inside world of prison culture both reflects and shapes the outside worlds understanding of sexuality in prose that is lucid economical and often elegant kunzel offers a sophisticated and persuasive argument that complicates the dominant historical narrative about the emergence of modern homosexuality. Criminal intimacy successfully conveys the continued sidelining of the complexities of sex in prisons for even in the face of the constant fear of violence in so many american prisons kunzel depicts a world in which sexual love between men or between women once it is given the attention it deserves can still threaten to unsettle dominant conceptions of stable sexual identities. Criminal intimacy prison and the uneven history of modern american sexuality author regina kunzel themselves as well as depictions of prison life in popular culture kunzel argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality and for the centrality of ideas about sex and sexuality to the modern prison in the process . Criminal intimacy prison and the uneven history of modern american sexuality regina kunzel themselves as well as depictions of prison life in popular culture kunzel argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality and for the centrality of ideas about sex and sexuality to the modern prison in the process she . In criminal intimacy re but it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the american public historically sex behind bars has evoked radically different responses from professionals and the public alike