It must be acknowledged that "cruising spots," quintessentially non-mixed sexual territories, have not disappeared from our towns and countryside. This is certainly surprising when one considers the urban planning and repressive policies that have sought to eradicate them everywhere, the urban development of businesses "reserved" for gay sexuality, and the preventive moralizing during the height of the AIDS epidemic. And it is all the more surprising in light of recent gains in legal equality, such as marriage equality, or the recent rise of online-mediated sexual encounters. The virtual nature of public spaces where our desires and sexualities now find expression, both in law and in online statuses, has not, however, eliminated these real locations, these places both secret and notorious, accessible to all men, heterosexual and homosexual, yet separate from the world. A long-term ethnographic journey between Marseille, Toulouse, and Barcelona, *Men on the Hunt* traces its enduring impermanence, revealing along the way the transient transformations of the self at work in these fleeting sexual experiences. Published October 15, 2020