<i>Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men's Sexuality in Public &amp; Private</i>. Beth Montemurro, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. (ISBN: 978-1-9788-1782-1)

How do scholars working at the intersections of gender and sexuality make sense of men's sex lives, their understanding of sex, and their fears and anxieties about sex? Beth Montemurro's Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men's Sexuality in Public & Private seeks to answer some of these questions and in so doing contributes to a growing body of scholarship on men's heterosexuality.Drawing on 94 interviews, conducted between 2014 and 2016, with straight men, Montemurro studies "how men's feelings about sex, sexual relationships, and their sexual selves have changed during their lifetime" (6).In this book, we learn that there are "three primary areas of concern," which are, quite simply, "getting it, having it, and keeping it up" (7).In her book, Montemurro argues that these primary concerns "allowed men to show their manhood" (7), recalling that gender is largely performative.The book itself is divided into three parts, each representing a part of the title.The first two chapters consider how men "get" sex, the next two chapters consider "having it," particularly men's expectations for sexual performance and proficiency, and finally, "keeping it up," which is as much about the temporal nature of the relationship as it is about erectile function and dysfunction.Together, then, readers are presented with a timely study that considers the nature of straight men's sexual lives, how they make sense of them, and what they desire of sexuality.Throughout the work, Montemurro argues that sexuality is key to understanding how men understand themselves, and perhaps most especially, their masculinity.To do this, Montemurro draws on the idea of "manhood acts" which are largely understood as "'practices and processes' involved in being seen as a man; those that 'signify possession of a masculine self'" (8).This idea of manhood acts, which comes from the work of Michael Schwalbe and Douglas Schrock, is used to profitable ends throughout Getting It, Having It, and Keeping It Up.Indeed, Montemurro is to be commended for enlivening this theoretical work in this book.This book contributes to ongoing discussions in the field of masculinity studies, and Montemurro introduces a new "type" of masculinity, "private masculinities," which she defines as "the way men demonstrate masculinity in intimate situations, where they are less likely to be policed" (16).I admit wholeheartedly that I have been critical of the proliferation of "types" of masculinity, but what strikes me as valuable here is that

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