The Skin of Other Men is an exploration of masculinity and intimacy from a queer perspective. On one of her most famous art pieces, Barbara Kreuger wrote, “You construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men.” Her words tug at the deep loneliness and longing of growing up steeped in American masculinities and struggling to find the intimacies we desire. The five “players” face these questions and more as they try to decide just how much they will play along to touch The Skin of Other Men. They play as friends, as lovers, as fathers and sons. They excavate the rituals of bathrooms, they interpolate the rules of hugs, they percolate on the ironies of sport, they masturbate. And finally, they come to a new question: what happens if we transform these rituals—or if we destroy them entirely?