June 2012
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“The Little School is a collection of short stories and poems that take the...”
– Portland Book Review
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“A heartwarming collection of 32 personal accounts, Transitions of the Heart...”
– Baltimore Gay Life in praise of TRANSITIONS OF THE HEART, edited by Rachel Pepper
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Excited to hear this conversation fire up: Rachel Kramer Bussel will be on Tristan Taormino’s new show Sex Out Loud Radio tonight, 8pm EST to talk kink, hotel sex and 50 Shades. They’ll be taking your calls!
Rachel Kramer Bussel: Talking Fifty Shades of... →
rkb:
I’m very excited about being on Sex Out Loud Radio live tonight at 5 pm PST/8 pm EST with Tristan Taormino. I’ve interviewed her probably 5 times for various publications, so I’m curious what she’ll want to ask me about Fifty Shades of Grey, kinky erotica, hotel sex and more. I published my…
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So You Wanna Be a Sex Writer? Tristan Taormino on...
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Get beyond 50 Shades: sexy reads for the... →
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the evocative, interesting, and occasionally... →
STFU, Conservatives: 50 Shades of HEY GIRL HEY:... →
stfuconservatives:
I had to double-check all the titles and author names on Amazon. I am going to be getting kinky book recommendations in my email for years to come. Not even mad.
(Disclaimer: I have not read all of these books. This is a compilation of readers’ suggestions. I will add trigger warnings as needed….
Looks like erotic re-tellings of classic lit are becoming trendy. Last summer, we published Mitzi Szereto’s Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, a remake described as “the classic that goes all the way.”
What classics do you think ripe for steamy reimagininings?
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Review: GOING DOWN is "filled with stories to... →
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““Tristan Taormino‘s keynote speech was an enthusiastic call to arms. She...”
– Poly Skeptic on OpenSF
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“Eroticizing fairy tales is not such a strange thing — after all, many of...”
– Kristina Wright interviewed by USA Today
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“Why an anthology about bondage and romance?
“It’s a modern version of...”
– Shanna Germain on why there is a need for BOUND BY LUST
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"The Golden Girls of Porn: A Panel Discussion at... →
“The adult industry, to these ladies, was about making a statement rather than a quick buck. Ms. Leonard, the only one to share her age (71), started her porn career in her mid-thirties as a political act supporting free speech; she sounded quite pleased that during her tenure as editor of High Society, they were sued by the likes of Barbra Streisand and Ann-Margret, and won. Similarly, Ms....
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“Overall, Bound by Lust is a stellar anthology, well-written and provocative,...”
– Oysters and Chocolate reviews Shanna Germain’s BOUND BY LUST at http://www.oystersandchocolate.com/Articles/2452/BoundbyLustaBookReview.aspx
“Actually, erotica figured in to this conversation (and conversion and...”
– Giselle Renarde congratulates trans fiction Lambda Literary Award winner Tristan Taormino and speaks to the role erotica can play in celebrating rather than fetishizing transpeople’s sexualities. Go to http://bit.ly/MBD28c for a great read!
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“But it turns out — despite all the 50 Shades drama — women have been...”
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‘Mommy porn’: Rachel Kramer Bussel and Shelley Taylor on 50 Shades of Grey on Rabble.ca
“The book also asks people to consider that LGBT are not isolated, that they do not exist without a family. I ask readers to consider what the possibility for social change might be if trans people are not cast off from their families, but held lovingly by their families and communities as they transition. We are used to thinking of LGBT as outsiders, only allowed to be considered “normal”...
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Get giveaway steamy reads from Cleis Press's... →
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“21 stories told within 206 pages of readable, plausible, seductive, and exciting...”
– One Hot Marriage reviews Rachel Kramer Bussel’s Going Down
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“And, said Tristan Taormino of New York, a feminist sex educator, women are more...”
– AZ Central
Get pumped for some insightful and sexy books from... →
“Myth: BDSM is violent.
Tristan Taormino, a sex educator and author of The...”
– Tristan Taormino: Mythbuster, BDSM Edition, on Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kayt-sukel/bdsm_b_1554310.html) 