When one transcends male-female dualism, eroticism becomes susceptible of a more subtle mathematical understanding. For each number, there is a different and unique quality of consciousness, and no one is intrinsically superior to any of the others. ... It is also fascinating to wonder whether *zero,* or metacelibacy, may be seen not as a renunciation but as an embrace of all metasex ...

The introduction of the metasexual paradigm is no less a shift in the history of our evolving understanding. The vast majority of the species has not seen past the conditioned strictures of the number *two.* And even those in the vanguard, having their orgies, still operate from the standpoint of a male-female dualism. The most sophisticated among them proclaim themselves bisexuals, not aware that this is the dead-end of that particular tunnel vision. The only way out is to go within to heal the internal split. A monad has no gender.

Novels

• The Gentle Degenerates (1972)
• The Saline Solution (1972)
• Contours of Darkness (1972)
• Mind Blower (1972)
• Couples, Loving Couples (1977)
• The Erotic Comedies (1981)
• Lying Down: The Horizontal Worldview (1984)
• The Other Hand Clapping (1987)
• A Driving Passion (1992)
• Play Time (1992)
• The Sensual Mirror (1992)
• Tackling the Team (1993)
• Devil's Sperm Is Cold (1993)
• Slave Lover (1993)
• In Touch (1993)

Autobiography

• The Stoned Apocalypse (1973)

Collections

• Metasex, Mirth and Madness: Erotic Tales of the Absurdly Real (1975)
• The Metasex Manifesto: Erotic Tales of the Absurdly Real (1976)
• The Wonderful World of Penthouse Sex (1976) (editor)
• Erotica from Penthouse (1990)

Nonfiction

• Pushing Ink: The Fine Art of Tattooing (1979)

• Heidenry, John (1997) What Wild Ecstasy: the rise and fall of the sexual revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster. Reviewed by Robert Christgau in The New York Times, April 27, 1997.