SEXIS WRONG

investigation of a school-board pay scandal brought about the
reform of a corrupt system. She holds a Master’s degree in
journalism from Michigan State University and studied comparative
journalism in Croatia. She also worked as a subeditor
for the New Zealand national daily the Dominion. As a
reporter for the Press Republican in Plattsburgh, New York,
she was part of a team honored by the Associated Press for
its localized and comprehensive 9/11 coverage.
Carol Queen got a PhD in sexology so she could impart more
realistic detail to her smut. She’s an award-winning author or
editor of ten volumes of sex writing, including Real Live Nude
Girl, 5 Minute Erotica, and Exhibitionism for the Shy. (For a full
bibliography, see [www.carolqueen.com].) She lives in San
Francisco, where she works as staff sexologist at Good Vibrations
and founding director of the Center for Sex & Culture
[www.sexandculture.org], a sex-ed center/library/archive.
Audacia Ray is a New Yorker, polyamorous pervert, smut
peddler, nakedteer, sex worker, safer-sex educator, and history
of sexuality enthusiast who is pursuing a Master’s degree
in cultural history. She is the news and shorts editor of $pread
magazine and prefers to spend her days in her underwear.
[www.wakingvixen.com]
Ann Regentin has written everything from reading-comprehension
tests and reference material to poetry and music, but
mostly she writes erotica. Her work has appeared in a handful
of anthologies, magazines, and websites. She is the author
of three e-books so far, and one of her poems has been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in the American
Midwest.
Lori Selke lives in Oakland, California. Her work can be found
in anthologies, such as Homewrecker, Glamour Girls, and
Blowing Kisses. She no longer does phone sex except on an
amateur basis.
Simon Sheppard is the author of the books Sex Parties 101,
In Deep: Erotic Stories, and Kinkorama: Dispatches From the
Front Lines of Perversion. His work has appeared in over 125
anthologies, including many editions of Best American Erotica
and Best Gay Erotica, and he writes the columns “Sex Talk”
and “Perv.” He’s at work on an historically-based anthology
of gay porn—those with vintage smut are encouraged to get
in touch. He’s at [www.simonsheppard.com].
Jen Sincero is a musician, motivational speaker, and the
author of The Straight Girl’s Guide to Sleeping With Chicks
and Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer. She is happiest when
informing people that if they believe in themselves and get
off their asses to do the things they love, they will be victorious,
regardless of how overwhelming or socially unacceptable
those things may seem. Which is pretty much what both
of her books are about. Go to [www.jensincero.com] for her
books, essays, music, workshops, tour schedule, and advice
on sex and relationships.
Joseph W. Slade is professor of Telecommunications at
Ohio University in Athens, where he teaches the history of
communciation technologies. He has written more than sixty
articles on literature, technology, film, and culture. He is coeditor
of Beyond the Two Cultures: Essays on Science, Technology,
and Literature (Iowa State University Press, 1990)
and The Midwest, a volume in the Greenwood Encyclopedia
of American Regional Cultures (Greenwood, 2004), and the
author of Thomas Pynchon (Warner Books, 1974, and Peter
Lang, 1990), Pornography in America (ABC-CLIO, 2000), and
the three-volume Pornography and Sexual Representation:
A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 2001). His most recent article
on pornography is “Global Traffic in Pornography: The
Hungarian Example,” written with Katalin Szoverfy Milter, in
International Exposure: Perspectives on Modern European
Pornography, 1800-2000, ed. Lisa Z. Sigel (Rutgers University
Press, 2005).
David Steinberg writes frequently on the culture and politics
of sex in America. His books include Photo Sex: Fine Art
Sexual Photography Comes of Age, Erotic by Nature: A Celebration
of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies, and
The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self. His writing
has appeared in Salon, Playboy, Boston Phoenix, Los Angeles
Weekly, SF Weekly, Cupido, the Sun, Libido, the Realist,
Clean Sheets, Scarlet Letters, Metro Santa Cruz, and Anything
That Moves. His monthly column, “Comes Naturally,”
is available (free and confidential) from him at . He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
John Stevens, nicknamed the “Erotic Professor,” teaches
Buddhism and Aikido at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai,
Japan. He is author of Lust for Enlightenment: Buddhism and
Sex (Shambhala Publications) and dozens of other books.
Cecilia Tan is a writer, editor, and sexuality activist. She is
the author of various works of erotic fiction, including The
Velderet and Black Feathers, and her short stories have appeared
everywhere from Ms. magazine to Penthouse. She
has also edited dozens of anthologies of erotic fiction for Circlet
Press, Masquerade Books, and Blue Moon Books. Find
out more at [www.ceciliatan.com].
Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor,
and sex educator. She is the author of three books: True
Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn and Perversion (Cleis Press),
Down and Dirty Sex Secrets (ReganBooks/HarperCollins),
and The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (Cleis Press),
winner of a Firecracker Book Award and named Amazon.
com’s #1 Bestseller in Women’s Sex Instruction in 1998. She
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