As a title for a collection of essays on masculinity from a strictly Freudian perspective, Masculine Scenarios would suggest a greater degree of imaginative re-visioning than is, in fact, the case. Although the foreword promises ‘different essentialist, constructivist and culture-based standpoints’ (p. viii), the volume seems to be an exercise in a limited variety of attempts to get beyond Freudian orthodoxy. At its most stultifying, Juan- David Nasio in ‘The loneliness of the homosexual’ informs us that of the two types of lesbian in the world (!), one type ‘loathe men’ and ‘idealize masculinity and want it for