Best sex writing of the year. Volume 1, On consent, BDSM, porn, race, sex work and more

194 Pages·2015·1.92 MB·English

by  Jon Pressick

Copyright © 2015 by Jon Pressick.
Foreword copyright © 2015 by Belle Knox.
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Permissions acknowledgments for the essays reprinted in this book may be found on page 224.
Molly Hannah Rachel Donna Jessie Thank you
CONTENTS
Foreword • BELLE KNOX
Introduction
Captain Save-A-Ho • FIONA HELMSLEY
How a Former Porn Star’s Sex Tape Helped Him Reclaim His Sex
Life • CHRISTOPHER ZEISCHEGG AKA DANNY WYLDE
What Should We Call Sex Toys? • EPIPHORA We Need a New
Orientation to Sex • CORY SILVERBERG
I Am the Blogger Who Allegedly “Complicated” the Stuebenville
Gang Rape Case—And I Wouldn’t Change a Thing • ALEXANDRIA
GODDARD
Porn Director: I Changed My Mind about Condoms • NICA NOELLE
Pregger Libido • EMBER SWIFT
The White Kind of Body • ALOK VAID-MENON
Sex, Lies and Public Education • LYNN COMELLA Sharing Body
Heat • JOAN PRICE
Being a Real-Life Accomplice • CAMERYN MOORE
Oops, I Slept with Your Boyfriend • CHARLIE NOX
Pump Dreams • MITCH KELLAWAY
Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores • LAURA AGUSTÍN
Fisting Day • JIZ LEE
Tell Me You Want Me. • MOLLENA WILLIAMS
The Gates • TINA HORN
The Choice of Motherhood and Insidious Drugstore Signage •
STOYA Kinky, Sober and Free: BDSM in Recovery •
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL
Crazy Trans Woman Syndrome • MORGAN M. PAGE
Let’s Talk about Interracial Porn • JARRETT NEAL
When I Was a Birthday Present for an Eighty-Two-Year-Old
Grandmother • DAVID HENRY STERRY
What an Armpit Model Taught Me about Sexual Language • JON
PRESSICK
Growing Through the Yuck • ASHLEY MANTA I Was a Teenage Porn
Model • LUX ALPTRAUM
Disability and Sex • JASON ARMSTRONG
Fumbling Towards Humanity: How “Trans Grrrls” Helped Me
Open Up to My Partner • AMY DENTATA In Defense of Celibacy •
LAUREN MARIE FLEMING AKA QUEERIE BRADSHAW
No Restrictions • DEE DEE BEHIND
About the Authors
About the Editor
Foreword