Best Sex Writing 2006 Author:Felice Newman, Frederique Delacoste Sometimes surprising, always stimulating this book offers a snapshot of America's complex sexual practices and mores as seen through Cleis' unique lens. It is the best nonfiction sex journalism of the year in one unforgettable book. — In a single generation, Cleis Press has fundamentally changed the way people talk and what they rea... more »d about sex and gender. Founded by Felice Newman and Frederique Delacoste in 1980, the press' mission is to explore and celebrate sex in all its forms, with a decided tilt toward the queer and the subversive. For the first time, Cleis' founders bring their own sex-positive sensibilities to bear on one of their most popular series. In Best Sex Writing 2006, theyve collected the year's most challenging and provocative nonfiction articles on this endlessly evocative subject. The essays here comprise a detailed, direct survey of the contemporary American sexual landscape, a landscape Newman and Delacoste helped shape with such ground-breaking books as Sex Work and The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex. Major commentators both in and out of Cleis' stable of writers examine the many roles sex plays in our lives in these literate and lively essays.
Contents: Where's the sin? An anti-sermon / Shalom Auslander -- The coming boom / Annalee Newitz -- Romancers and raincoaters / Susie Bright -- Tortured logic / Eli Sanders -- Where the truth lies / Emily DePrang -- Rope burn / Michael A. Gonzales -- A porn valley story / Susannah Breslin -- Naked on the set! Auditioning for John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus / Paul Festa -- Man-hunting with the high-school dream girls / David Amsden -- The pole test / Natalie Moore & Natalie Hopkinson -- The nutty confessor / Michelle Orange -- The cuddle puddle of Stuyvesant High School / Alex Morris -- An ode to ass: reflections on sex ed, porn, and perversity / Tristan Taormino -- What I'm giving up / Mark Pritchard -- Good fences make good affairs / Virginia Vitzthum -- Just always be good / Stephen Elliott -- Out there: mountain as a new bridge / Jeff Weinstein.« less