Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex

by Pat Califia

Paperback, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

SEX Cali

Publication

Cleis Pr (1994), 264 pages

Description

'Always intelligent but never academic, Califia takes bold unpopular stances on censorship and sexual freedom... No aspect of sex is too forbidden or too undignified to merit Califia's critical attention...' Publisher's Weekly (starred review). Second edition, released in 2008, features new writing on the necessity of excess, child porn and the age of consent and when sex is a job.

User reviews

LibraryThing member andersonden
Who says sex doesn't make you think? These essays about sex and how it relates to pornography, eroticism, perversions, and prostitution do. A point of view rarely heard, from a "sex radical". A defense of consensual enjoyment.
LibraryThing member ovistine
This is a collection of essays; I read some but not all of them. I tore through all the essays about Califia's experiences with kinky sex, but left aside some of the early ones about AIDS education and prostitution, as well as some of the ones about teenage/child sexuality. The BDSM essays were
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killer, though, many of the describing really well what's so fascinating about kink. Recommended.
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Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0939416891 / 9780939416899

Rating

½ (48 ratings; 3.9)
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