For the first time in ages, we are witnessing a changing hegemony in which heteronormativity and phallogocentrism have themselves perhaps finally come face-to-face with notions of their own mortality, given changing discourses and mores. This book focuses on changes in the representations and depictions of masculinity and masculine sexualities evolving in the contemporary era in France, the causes for which I shall turn to shortly. These changes have had far-reaching effects not only in the standard fora in which we might have expected them, but in other areas that would once have seemed fairly safe strongholds of heteronormative masculinity. Thus do the cultural artefacts analyzed in this volume cross generic lines in a variety of ways. Two quick examples will suffice here. First, essays and fiction by two writers on the political right, Marc-Edouard Nabe and Michel Houellebecq, illustrate a crisis in masculinity/sexuality that relates to the ones depicted in gay popular fiction and film, though both rail, at times interminably, about gays. The work of Maurice Dantec and Fabrice Neaud, both on the right as well, though authors of different sexual inclinations, is strangely interrelated with larger contexts of networks and nodes, something we also see in the book on heterosexual pedophilia by Nicolas Jones-Gorlin, a book thought so dangerous that it was almost banned by the French government for those under eighteen.