SMUT Press is proud to present Cruising Archaeology II: Eurotrash, the long awaited follow-up edition to the 2024 cult bestseller; Cruising Archaeology. Cruising Archaeology II: Eurotrash is the tenth printed matter produced by the press and will launch in a series of launches across sex clubs, saunas and book fairs across Europe, starting at MA1: Bunker in Old Street in London.

The project builds on the initial edition’s success by expanding the breadth of archaeological sites to various locations scattered across European cities including Berlin, Athens, Dublin, Barcelona and Paris. The diversity of cruising areas in this edition, including woodland areas, public toilets, palatial gardens, sex clubs and beaches, speak to the inventive, site-responsive forms that cruising assumes and situating desire within the folds of city infrastructure and natural landscape.

Much like its predecessor, the book pairs vivid scans of collected objects with writing that contextualises, complicates and historicises cruising’s material traces. Featured texts include interviews with Marc Svensson of You Are Loved, a London-based harm reduction initiative, and with Mati Klitgård of Gay Consent.Lab in Berlin - both offering urgent perspectives on chemsex, intimacy, and consent in contemporary queer life. Other contributors include Stav B, whose piece addresses the persistent erasure of lesbian cruising spaces, Jordan Tannahill’s piece recounts a wild night in Hampstead Heath, evoking the fantasy and libidinal charge of cruising grounds whilst Prem Sahib’s insert ‘Vape’ responds to the complicated relationship between the digital and the physical. João Florêncio’s powerful opening piece in the publication, titled ‘Fucking Ruins,’ interlaces queerness with empire, hauntology and decay.

The publication retains the pocket-sized paperback format of the first edition with the book’s design researched and assembled by designer John Philip Sage. Printed in Lithuania, distributed by Public Knowledge Books.