Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong : The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and Everything in Between)

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Pub. Date: 2005-10-01
Publisher(s): Disinformation Co
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Orgasms, sexual inventions, spirituality, high-tech porn, gender-blending, hustling, masturbation, politics, airplane sex, disabilities, sex magick, biblical erotica, advertising, first times, sex in space, asexuality, group sex . . . are you ready for Disinformation's look at the world of sex? Master anthologizer Russ Kick has immersed himself in the many and varied worlds of sex writing, producing a definitive collection exposing reality that's way, way stranger than XXX fiction. Profiled in The New York Timesas an ;information archaeologist, ; Russ digs where others would not think to look for delicious details on the present, past, and future of sex, including: The first-ever look at the FBI's porn collection (the Obscene Reference File), complete with reproduced documents FAA reports about people having sex on commercial flights-the so-called ;mile-high club ; A look at brilliant, kinky, and scarce sex-zines, such as Frighten the Horses, Taste of Latex, Future Sex, and Pucker Up, as well as Sexology, published by Hugo Gernsback, the father of science fiction The forgotten sex books of Charles Atlas ( ;Hey, quit kicking sand in our faces, you bully! ;) This massive, oversized anthology features a panoply of sexperts, everyone from prostitutes to professors, legends to newcomers, sexual revolutionaries to sexologists and beyond, providing a varied and unexpected look at sex, challenging our notions of what is possible and in turn exciting, enervating, frightening, and freaking us out. Russ Kickis the editor of You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know Is Wrong, and Abuse Your Illusions. He is the author of 50 Things You're Not Supposed To KnowVolumes 1 & 2 and The Disinformation Book of Lists. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction 7(2)
SONGS OF EXPERIENCE
Answers
9(4)
M. Christian
Transcendent Sex
13(5)
Jenny Wade
Gala's Divine Beauty Mark
18(3)
Salvador Dali
My First Fist-a-Thon
21(2)
Tristan Taormino
Blood
23(4)
Jennifer Bennett
The Truth About Sex
27(2)
Bill Brent
Love Without Limits
29(7)
Deborah Taj Anapol
A Baby Dyke Learns to Score
36(3)
Jane Vincent
Egg Sex
39(4)
Susie Bright
Baby Love
43(4)
Christen Clifford
A Middle-Age Manifesto
47(3)
Debra Hyde
Teaching Rose
50(3)
Jill Morley
Inviting Elder Sex Out of the Closet
53(4)
Joani Blank
PEOPLE & PLACES
Everybody's Sin Is Nobody's Sin: Alfred Kinsey and the Breaking of Sexual Silence
57(4)
David Steinberg
Key to the Fields: Gershon Legman, Folklorist of the Unspeakable
61(7)
Susan Davis
Betty Dodson's Revolutionary Open Relationship
68(3)
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Inside the Cave: The Rise and Fall of Plato's Retreat
71(7)
Jon Hart
The House of Secret Treasures: Japan's Sex Museums and Festivals
78(4)
Ed Jacob
Cunt Candy Factory
82(2)
Tristan Taormino
The Archive
84(6)
Jack Boulware
PRACTICES & PREFERENCES
The Circle Game: Playing With Yourself Together
90(9)
Martha Cornog
First Person Sexual
99(3)
Joani Blank
Orgies: A Brief Paean and a Few Practical Thoughts
102(3)
Carol Queen
Bed Knobs and Broomsticks
105(4)
Fiona Horne
Sex and. . .Drugs
109(7)
Preston Peet
Making Moves: Erotic Chess
116(2)
Ann Regentin
Pervert
118(2)
Jill Nagle
Cocksucker Magnet
120(2)
Lori Selke
Cat-fighting, Eye-licking, Head-sitting, and Statue-screwing
122(7)
Brenda Love
Rules
129(2)
Dirty Found
Necrophilia
131(2)
Nick Adams
My First Fetish: Or, How I Fought Mediocrity
133(2)
Audacia Ray
Profile of a Zoophile: Bill Brent Interviews
135(5)
Clive Grace
PORN
Margins to Mainstream
140(8)
Joseph W. Slade
American Sex Ed: Porn as Sexual Disinformation
148(5)
Violet Blue
Black and Blue: New York's Roughie Grindhouses and the Films That Played at Them
153(11)
Michelle Clifford
Girls Gone Wild
164(6)
Greta Christina
Fire, Brick, Sand, Concrete: An Unlicensed Sex Shop in Britain
170(5)
David Kerekes
Showing Pink
175(2)
Paul Krassner
The Daily Schedule of a Porno Copywriter
177(8)
Libby Lynn
Violence as the New Porn
185(6)
Cecilia Tan
WORKING HARD FOR THE MONEY
Some of My Best Friends Are Naked: Interviews With Seven Erotic Dancers
191(15)
Tim Keefe
Astonishing Tales of a Peep Show Girl
206(11)
Pagan Moss
Close Contact
217(2)
Preston Peet
A San Francisco Whore in a Nevada Brothel
219(4)
Lisa Archer
SEX ON PAPER
How to Write Sex Scenes: The 12-Step Program
223(3)
Steve Almond
The Virgin Diaries
226(6)
Victor J. Banis
Beat Off 101
232(5)
Earl Kemp
The Man Who Screwed Things Up
237(14)
Stephen J. Gertz
On Being a Sexmonger
251(4)
Jen Sincero
The Love Hotel Diaries
255(5)
Ed Jacob
The Sex Lit You Probably Haven't Read
260(8)
Russ Kick
OUR BODIES ARE A WONDERLAND
Vaginas, les Cons, Weather-makers, and Palaces of Delight
268(6)
Catherine Blackledge
John Thomas, Lady Jane, and Little Elvis: Genital Pet Names
274(8)
Martha Cornog
Circumcision and Sex
282(9)
Diane Petryk-Bloom
The Condom
291(4)
Vern Bullough
Hooray for Sodomy: Is the Rectum an Easter Basket?
295(5)
Simon Sheppard
Horniness Begets Health
300(6)
Laura Moore
THE SEXUAL IS POLITICAL
``Two! Four! Six! Eight! Let Alabama Masturbate!''
306(2)
Rachel Maines
There Has Been No Sexual Revolution
308(8)
Jay Gertzman
A Perverted Utopia
316(3)
Annalee Newitz
Queer Freaks
319(5)
Patrick Califia
HOLY SEX
Thumping in the Bible
324(3)
Jack Murnighan
Burchard's Medieval Sexual Menu
327(3)
Richard Zacks
The Sex Life of the Buddha
330(10)
John Stevens
CATEGORIES SUCK
Sex by the Numbers
340(5)
Albert B. Gerber
Pandrogeny
345(4)
Breyer P-Orridge
About the Editor 349(1)
Contributors 350(8)
Article Histories 358

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