This book is a guide to bottoming. There are more ways to do it than you might think. Bottoming may be read as passive and intransitive today, but for most of its nearly six hundred years as a verb, "to bottom" has been active and transitive. One goal of this guide is to activate the passive sense of bottoming by connecting it to a wider linguistic history. If the bottom so wishes, their bottoming may be as transitive as bottoming has ever been. A bottom may bottom their top, not merely for their top. The top may be objectified by its want of a bottom. Another proposition: the top, by topping, is bottoming, too. He must be. By outfitting himself with a bottom, he bottoms himself. This guide proposes a marriage of active and passive, bumming and bottoming, sexual and nonsexual bottoms. It embraces the versatility inherent in "bottom" and seeks enlightenment through the vast, ever-expanding network this word has woven through our language. It aims to bottom you, the reader, around its thesis (i.e., its bottom): Everybody bottoms. Or at least, everybody should.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2332629 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Davis, James Phillip |
| Contributors | Dubrow, Jehanne, Marks, Corey, Doty, Jeffrey |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Davis, James Phillip, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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