LCC
HQ76.U5 C354
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
San Francisco, Calif. : Cleis Press, c2000.
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. Show Less
Language
Physical description
xxxi, 288 p.; 22 inches
ISBN
1573440965 / 9781573440967