Summary
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
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13 | (5) |
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Gala's Divine Beauty Mark |
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21 | (2) |
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23 | (4) |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (7) |
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A Baby Dyke Learns to Score |
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36 | (3) |
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39 | (4) |
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43 | (4) |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (3) |
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Inviting Elder Sex Out of the Closet |
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53 | (4) |
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Everybody's Sin Is Nobody's Sin: Alfred Kinsey and the Breaking of Sexual Silence |
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57 | (4) |
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Key to the Fields: Gershon Legman, Folklorist of the Unspeakable |
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61 | (7) |
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Betty Dodson's Revolutionary Open Relationship |
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68 | (3) |
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Inside the Cave: The Rise and Fall of Plato's Retreat |
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71 | (7) |
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The House of Secret Treasures: Japan's Sex Museums and Festivals |
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78 | (4) |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (6) |
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The Circle Game: Playing With Yourself Together |
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99 | (3) |
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Orgies: A Brief Paean and a Few Practical Thoughts |
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102 | (3) |
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Bed Knobs and Broomsticks |
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105 | (4) |
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109 | (7) |
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Making Moves: Erotic Chess |
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116 | (2) |
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118 | (2) |
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120 | (2) |
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Cat-fighting, Eye-licking, Head-sitting, and Statue-screwing |
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122 | (7) |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (2) |
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My First Fetish: Or, How I Fought Mediocrity |
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133 | (2) |
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Profile of a Zoophile: Bill Brent Interviews |
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135 | (5) |
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140 | (8) |
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American Sex Ed: Porn as Sexual Disinformation |
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148 | (5) |
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Black and Blue: New York's Roughie Grindhouses and the Films That Played at Them |
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153 | (11) |
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164 | (6) |
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Fire, Brick, Sand, Concrete: An Unlicensed Sex Shop in Britain |
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170 | (5) |
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175 | (2) |
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The Daily Schedule of a Porno Copywriter |
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177 | (8) |
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185 | (6) |
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WORKING HARD FOR THE MONEY |
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Some of My Best Friends Are Naked: Interviews With Seven Erotic Dancers |
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191 | (15) |
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Astonishing Tales of a Peep Show Girl |
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206 | (11) |
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217 | (2) |
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A San Francisco Whore in a Nevada Brothel |
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219 | (4) |
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How to Write Sex Scenes: The 12-Step Program |
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223 | (3) |
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226 | (6) |
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232 | (5) |
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The Man Who Screwed Things Up |
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237 | (14) |
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251 | (4) |
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255 | (5) |
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The Sex Lit You Probably Haven't Read |
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260 | (8) |
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OUR BODIES ARE A WONDERLAND |
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Vaginas, les Cons, Weather-makers, and Palaces of Delight |
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268 | (6) |
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John Thomas, Lady Jane, and Little Elvis: Genital Pet Names |
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274 | (8) |
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282 | (9) |
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291 | (4) |
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Hooray for Sodomy: Is the Rectum an Easter Basket? |
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295 | (5) |
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300 | (6) |
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``Two! Four! Six! Eight! Let Alabama Masturbate!'' |
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306 | (2) |
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There Has Been No Sexual Revolution |
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308 | (8) |
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316 | (3) |
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319 | (5) |
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324 | (3) |
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Burchard's Medieval Sexual Menu |
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327 | (3) |
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The Sex Life of the Buddha |
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330 | (10) |
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340 | (5) |
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| About the Editor |
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| Contributors |
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