| Introduction | 3 |
| The Two Roads | 4 |
| Buddhist Sexualities | 8 |
| Ch. 1 | The Hermeneutics of Desire | 15 |
| Protean Desire | 16 |
| The Buddhist Economy of Desire | 23 |
| Ascetic Lust | 29 |
| The Trend Reversal | 39 |
| The Ambivalent Body | 54 |
| Ch. 2 | Disciplining Sex, Sexualizing Discipline | 64 |
| Law, Order, and Libido | 65 |
| Sexual Offenses | 74 |
| The Rise of Mahayana Precepts | 89 |
| Ch. 3 | The Ideology of Transgression | 98 |
| The Rule of Antinomianism | 100 |
| Crazy Cloud | 111 |
| Transgression - Sublime or Sublimated? | 118 |
| Ritual Infractions | 124 |
| Feminine Transgression | 129 |
| Ch. 4 | Clerical Vices and Vicissitudes | 144 |
| Monastic Decline and Anticlericalism | 145 |
| The Demonic Priest | 161 |
| The Juridical Background | 172 |
| Nyobon | 181 |
| Order or Freedom | 197 |
| Ch. 5 | Buddhist Homosexualities | 207 |
| The New Sodom | 207 |
| The Social and Cultural Context(s) | 227 |
| The Quest for Origins | 233 |
| Ch. 6 | Boys to Men | 241 |
| The Literary Tradition of the Chigo | 241 |
| The "Divine Child" Mystique | 249 |
| Head or Tail | 265 |
| Afterthoughts | 279 |
| Glossary | 289 |
| Bibliography | 293 |
| Index | 333 |
