Taking its vantage point in the controversial french author Guillaume Dustan (1965-2005) this paper investigates how the AIDS crises manifests itself as an affective shift in gay men's relation to promiscuity. In the case of Dustan, promiscuity is not only a question of sex, but also of time, enabling a critique of the entanglements of heteronormativity, temporality and history. In my reading of Dustan, three different affective relations to time is foregrounded: melancholia, ecstasy, and hope. If in the wake of the AIDS crisis promiscuity, for some, becomes a thing of the past, for Dustan it is a melancholic practice the obscures a temporal orientation toward the future. Ecstasy, too, is a means to a suspension of the progression of time that, with the AIDS crisis, can be read as a queer rejection of the future. The ecstasy of Dustan, however, can also be read as an articulation of a queer hope for the future. In his work I find a utopian impulse in the representation of desire as a pleasurable pedagogic.