SEXIS WRONG

ica 2005. She is the author of “Bending,” an erotic novella
published by Simon & Schuster in the three-novella collection
Three Kinds of Asking For It, as well as the editor of Paying
For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients. Her influential
essay “Are We Having Sex Now or What?” has been
reprinted several times and has been studied and cited by
scholars, writers, and universities. She lives in San Francisco
with her wife, Ingrid. Her Oscarology sign is West Side Story.
You can visit her on the Web at [www.gretachristina.com].
Christen Clifford is a writer and performer in New York. Her
work has appeared in Nerve, Salon, New York Press, and
Blue. She has performed on Broadway and Off, in film and
television, and in regional and international theaters. She is
a visiting scholar at New York University and has received
a couple of fellowships and residencies here and there. Her
solo performance, 17 Guys I Fucked, was produced at the
Culture Project, Women Center Stage, the BRIC Theatre, and
the Oni Gallery. She created the performance series HEAT:
Sexy Stories and Burlesque and is currently working toward
an MFA from the New School.
Michelle Clifford is an author and photographer. She was born
in South Boston and grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She escaped
the unbearable sunshine in 1985 to the grit of New York
City. Just in time to see the fall of decadent Rome in the form
of Times Square. Clifford teamed up with Bill Landis, a writer
and known quantity in the Times Square milieu. He had been
the first to document the Deuce, and she liked his style. They
joined forces and became the tag team from Hell. Clifford began
photographing and taking copious notes of everything that
the Deuce had to display. She became the Margaret Mead/
Alfred Kinsey two-headed monster of Times Square, taking
the histories of the performers in the films that the decrepit
movie houses were screening. Her research was relentless
and neverending. Like Marlow in search of Col. Kurtz in Heart
of Darkness, she became acquainted through Landis with the
movie-house workers that ran these films, the riffraff, the con
artists, the whores and their pimps. She listened to their stories
and began her writing. She has written for such diverse
publications as Film Comment, Screw, Hustler, Penthouse,
and the Village Voice, oftentimes leaving her name off of the
byline for privacy. One Voice cover story, “Body For Rent,”
was the most popular issue of the newspaper that year. With
the amount of material so overwhelming, Clifford began the
publication Metasex. No editing, no plot resolution, no happy
endings. She coauthored the HarperCollins book Anger, the
unauthorized biography of underground filmmaker Kenneth
Anger in all his artistic, masochistic, Satanic glory. Again leaving
her name off the byline. She then resurrected Bill Landis’
magazine, Sleazoid Express, after seeing him kill it off after his
own involvement in pornography. She completely overhauled
it with a vengeance. The magazine changed from a few-page
mimeograph to a novella-length publication. She created covers
and content that brought the magazine back to life. Her latest
book, Sleazoid Express, published by Simon and Schuster,
is currently stinking up the universe in its second printing. It
is included in syllabi at colleges in classes as diverse as architecture
and film history. She continues to publish Metasex
[www.metasex.org] and Sleazoid Express [www.sleazoidexpress.com].
Martha Cornog has had the pleasure of using her linguistics
and library degrees in ways her almae matres never suspected.
Her most recent book, The Big Book of Masturbation
(2003), won a Benjamin Franklin Award from the Publishers
Marketing Association. Her earlier books encouraged
librarians to enhance their sexualities collections: For Sex
Education: See Librarian (1996), written with her husband,
Timothy Perper, and an edited collection, Libraries, Erotica,
& Pornography (1991), which won the American Library Association’s
Eli M. Oboler Award for intellectual freedom. She
has written articles on sexuality materials in libraries for Library
Journal, Collection Building, Journal of Information Ethics,
and SIECUS Report, also in collaboration with Timothy
Perper. Her research on group masturbation appeared in the
Journal of Sex Education and Therapy. She has published on
sexual language and has contributed to From Plato to Paglia:
A Philosophical Encyclopedia (forthcoming), The Continuum
Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality, Encyclopedia
of Birth Control, Liberating Minds: Lives of Gay, Lesbian,
and Bisexual Librarians and Their Advocates, The Complete
Dictionary of Sexology, Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia,
and Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in
Human Sexuality. She has been active in the Society for the
Scientific Study of Sexuality, serves on the editorial board of
Contemporary Sexuality, and was a book review editor of the
Journal of Sex Education and Therapy. She was named Library
Journal Book Reviewer of the Year–Nonfiction in 2001.
She is manager of membership services for a medical association,
has held positions in several libraries, and received an
MS in library science from Drexel University and an MA in linguistics
from Brown University. Currently, she is collaborating
with Timothy Perper on studies of erotic/romantic Japanese
comics (manga) and serves with him as review and commentary
editors for Mechademia: A Journal for Anime, Manga,
and the Fan Arts.
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the greatest artists of
the twentieth century. Primarily a Surrealist, his masterworks
include the paintings The Persistence of Memory (1931),
Sleep (1937), One Second Before Awakening From a Dream
Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate (1944),
and Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954).
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